U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Olson bashed Duane Morris on Friday during a sanctions hearing for two Miami partners in a dispute over Plantation's shuttered Fashion Mall.

Olson issued an interim sanction in January barring Duane Morris partner Lida Rodriguez-Taseff from practicing in the Southern District of Florida's bankruptcy court for 90 days. At that time, he also issued an order against fellow partner Kevin Vance, who faced a similar penalty over an electronically filed court document that contradicted the judge's oral instructions.

“The tone of Duane Morris' pleading in this case reflects what I would conceive of as a self-satisfied smugness, full of self-congratulatory blather—all to the effect that the firm is a great corporate citizen who did nothing wrong in this case,” the Fort Lauderdale judge said from the bench Friday. “Duane Morris may be a great corporate citizen in some of the markets in which it practices. Its conduct and attitude here is that it neither cares about being or being seen as a responsible corporate citizen in the Southern District of Florida.”