Case Title: The Florida Bar v. Davide

Citation: 702 So. 2d 184

Docket Number: 86984

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 1997-10-09T00:00:00Z

Document:
702 So. 2d 184 (1997)
THE FLORIDA BAR, Complainant,
v.
Salvatore DAVIDE, etc., et al., Respondents.
No. 86984.

Supreme Court of Florida.
October 9, 1997.
Rehearing Denied December 11, 1997.
John W. Frost, President, Bartow; Edward R. Blumberg, President-Elect, Miami; John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee; John T. Berry, Staff Counsel, Tallahassee; Jacquelyn P. Needelman, Branch Unlicensed Practice of Law Counsel, Miami, for Complainant The Florida Bar.
Salvatore Davide, Hollywood, pro se.
Arthur Razor, on behalf of Florida Law Center, Inc., Coral Springs, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM.
This matter is before the Court upon a referee's uncontested report concluding that respondents, Salvador Davide and Florida Law Center, Inc., have been engaged in the unlicensed practice of law in Florida, and recommending that respondents be permanently enjoined from such activities. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 15, Fla. Const. We approve the report and adopt the recommended sanctions.
After reviewing the extensive evidence submitted to support The Florida Bar's complaint, the referee found that each of the charges had been proven. Thereafter, the referee concluded:
The undersigned Referee recommends that:
Upon review of the record, we conclude that the referee's findings are supported by competent, substantial evidence and that the conclusions of law are sound. We hereby adopt the conclusions of law and recommendations as to sanctions as our own.
Accordingly, the respondents, Salvador Davide and Florida Law Center, Inc., are hereby permanently enjoined from the practice of law and all of those activities more particularly described in the referee's report and quoted above. In addition, costs are taxed in favor of The Florida Bar and against the respondents in the amount of $2,619.57, for which sum let execution issue.
It is so ordered.
*186 KOGAN, C.J., and OVERTON, SHAW, GRIMES, HARDING, WELLS and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.