RumbergerKirk partner Richard Greenberg said he and his client, Clayton Studstill, appreciated the judicial referee’s thoughtful and well-reasoned report to the Supreme Court of Florida to dismiss ethics charges in an article about the case published in the Daily Business Review on May 27, 2025.

A referee has recommended in his report to the Supreme Court of Florida to dismiss ethics charges against an attorney, finding that the trial lawyer was likely suffering from COVID-related delirium when he violated a judicial order and made misleading statements to the court.

“This case should never have happened,” James A. Yancey, the referee in the respondent Clayton Studstill’s case, concluded in his report. “I’ve been a judge close to 26 years and have been the Chief Judge for the Tenth Judicial Circuit the last almost two years. I have never seen a situation like this one.”

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