A man with a long-term physical and cognitive disability claimed in a professional negligence lawsuit that a lease agreement his counsel at Saul Ewing and one of its South Florida attorneys arranged resulted in a rental amount that was less than 5% of the fair market rental value.

Virginia Buchanan, a shareholder at Levin Papantonio Rafferty in Pensacola, is an ethics expert uninvolved in the matter in which Jane Muir of J. Muir & Associates, who represents the plaintiff, Victor Maniglia, sued the defendants, Saul Ewing, and one of its partners, Louis Archambault.