Florida state permits lawyers to do business using a fictitious law firm name with disclosures required under Bankruptcy Rule 2014. Because the retained lawyers did not disclose the details of their relationship under the rule, newly appointed Bankruptcy Judge John T. Dorsey sanctioned them $55,000.
In two opinions, Judge Dorsey let the lawyers off the hook for more severe sanctions because they were not bankruptcy lawyers and thus were “not accustomed to the stringent disclosure requirements mandated by the Bankruptcy Rules.”
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