Orange County Booking and Release Center — Site of Credential Discrepancy
A Longwood personal injury lawyer has been disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court after he tried to help his father — a Central Florida attorney whose law license had just been stripped away — sneak into a jail meeting room reserved for attorneys and their clients. The scheme unraveled at the Orange County Booking and Release Center on January 13, 2025, when deputies caught the pair trying to use the son’s active credentials to get the father inside.
Larry Powers III and his father, Larry Powers Jr., went to the jail that day to see Larry Jr.’s wife, who had been arrested that January, according to the Miami Herald. Larry III showed his own driver’s license and Florida Bar card and was waved into the client-lawyer area to see his mother. His father, however, told a sheriff’s deputy he was looking for help locating the same meeting area — and then produced a bar card and driver’s license that didn’t match. The bar card belonged to his son.
A License Revoked Just Days Earlier
The mismatch wasn’t a paperwork mix-up. Larry Powers Jr.’s application for disciplinary revocation had been approved by the Florida Supreme Court on January 2, 2025 — just eleven days before he and his son showed up at the jail trying to pass off his son’s credentials as his own, per the Miami Herald’s reporting. Under Subchapter 3-5 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, disciplinary revocation is explicitly defined as “tantamount to disbarment,” immediately terminating a lawyer’s license. The Miami Herald said Powers Jr. was disbarred for five years and that readmission is sometimes possible…