Some days/weeks are busier than others at the best legal blog in the United States. This is one of those busy weeks.
As your favourite judges and ours flock to their favourite watering holes and bend a black robe covered elbow trying to erase the thought of a person ambling up to the window at 11:59 am on Friday and filing to run against him, we have a crack team of reporters sniffing out who is filing, who is not, and who is changing their name to the Miami Dolphins First round draft pick tonight.
Meanwhile, in another story we have been following, the ups and downs and foreclosures and forbearances of Bruce "The Bank Banger" Jacobs, the Florida Bar (Motto "We never met a lawyer we liked") moved in the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday for an Emergency Suspension of Mr. Jacobs for having multiple ethics complaints pending.
We do not envy Mr. Jacobs. The Bar is like Dracula*, they can pass you by and not bat an eye, but once they set their sights on you, they are as blood-thirsty as a night-dwelling Transylvanian and can be as angry as a swarm of Alex Michaelses attacking prosecutors.
Multiple ethics violations. What to do? It reminds us of what the great Sy Gaer would often say when the state moved to revoke his client's bond for a second or third arrest: "If that is not the clearest indication of a pattern of police harassment judge, I don't know what is." We give that one as a freebie to Mr. Jacobs learned Bar Counsel defender.
2022-559 Petition 80029 Petition2dsuspension2028emergency29 by Anonymous PbHV4H on Scribd
This is a shocking pleading. There is no honor in destroying your career in pursuit of what might best be termed as conspiracy theories
ReplyDeleteFormer ASA here.
ReplyDeleteBruce,
I worked with you at the SAO. You're a good lawyer and a good guy. This shit is getting out of hand. Get some mental health treatment quick.
This is a lawyer who makes us all look bad. He has no business being a lawyer or calling himself a lawyer.
ReplyDeleteA good lawyer will adopt or abandon tactics and strategies depending on their success in court. Bruce should've already learned that this particular line of advocacy is being very poorly received. However, it is concerning that the supreme court and their version of the proud boy head breakers are now openly saying that criticizing the court and then not understanding and accepting the horror of that crime requires an immediate death penalty. That's U.S.S.R. stuff.
ReplyDeleteSo sad to read that Bar Complaint and see Bruce spiral downward. I knew him as an ASA and he represented me when I stupidly bought a condo to flip as an investment. He handled my case professionally and obtained a good result. I hope he can find his way back....
ReplyDeletehttps://efactssc-public.flcourts.org/casedocuments/2022/589/2022-589_petition_80069_e32.pdf
ReplyDeleteQuintupling down seems unwise.
FL SC Dismissed it..
ReplyDeletehttps://efactssc-public.flcourts.org/casedocuments/2022/559/2022-559_disposition_155520_d03.pdf
It looked promising for Mr Jacobs, that the Supreme Court majority (with Canady and LaBarga favoring the emergency suspension) denied the emergency suspension of Mr Jacobs, although w/o prejudice for the Bar to include all the emergency petition's allegations in its complaint.
ReplyDeleteBut it cannot be denied that Mr Jacobs has shot himself multiple times, and not only in the foot. The Jeffrey Norkin disbarment case should have been a teaching moment for Mr Jacobs; it, by itself, provides strong precedent for an ultimately devastating result for this well-meaning lawyer, who is widely respected both for this zeal for clients, and for his past work as a prosecutor. Indeed, Mr Jacobs's attacks on judges (who, we should remember, are forbidden from defending themselves) alone is a shocking and not-to-be-emulated record.