Title: The Florida Bar v. Mills
Citation: 398 So. 2d 1368
Docket Number: 58675
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: May 28, 1981

398 So. 2d 1368 (1981)
THE FLORIDA BAR, Complainant,
v.
Joe MILLS, Jr., Respondent.
No. 58675.

Supreme Court of Florida.
May 28, 1981.
H. Glenn Boggs, Asst. Staff Counsel, UPL, Tallahassee, Ronald R. Richmond, Chairman, Standing Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law, New Port Richey, and C. Clyde Atkins, Jr., Bar Counsel of Musleh, Bond, Arnett, Atkins &amp; Krehl, Ocala, for complainant.
Joe Mills, Jr., in pro. per.
PER CURIAM.
This is a proceeding on a complaint of The Florida Bar against Joe Mills, Jr., contending he has engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. This Court appointed the Honorable Wallace E. Sturgis, Jr., as referee to conduct a hearing. Judge Sturgis found that the respondent, a nonlawyer, prepared articles of incorporation for a client who was damaged by that work. Drafting articles of incorporation is the practice of law. The Florida Bar v. Fuentes, 190 So. 2d 748 (Fla. 1966); The Florida Bar v. Keehley, 190 So. 2d 173 (Fla. 1966); The Florida Bar v. Town, 174 So. 2d 395 (Fla. 1965).
The referee recommended:
We approve and adopt these recommendations as the order of this Court. The costs required to be paid are $361.51.
It is so ordered.
SUNDBERG, C.J., and ADKINS, OVERTON and McDONALD, JJ.,, concur.
BOYD, J.: I would enjoin respondent from practicing law and require payment of costs but I would not find him guilty of indirect criminal contempt.