Bankruptcy Judge Bashes Duane Morris
Judge John Olson was upset about a draft order submitted by the firm to decide a motion rather than grant a continuance in a longrunning real estate fight over Plantation's Fashion Mall.
March 20, 2015 at 11:20 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Daily Business Review
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.”
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