The “enormous” behavior of the lawyer justifies the payment, not the suspension, says Florida Oberster Court of Justice, says Florida's Senior Court

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The “enormous” behavior of the lawyer justifies the payment, not the suspension, says Florida Oberster Court of Justice, says Florida's Senior Court

By Amanda Robert

March 17, 2025, 9:22 am CDT

Florida's Supreme Court ruled that a lawyer at Palm Beach County, Florida, despite the recommendation of a referee, that he only received a 91-day suspension.

In his statement on March 13, the Supreme Court of Florida, Malik Leigh, founding partner of Watson Leigh in Tallahasee, Florida, said that he did not understand the “most fundamental legal teachings or procedures”. The state's Supreme Court also said that Leigh had “a tendency to the rules and orders of the court of court courts”, although he received several warnings.

“While Leigh has no disciplinary records and we usually approach incremental discipline, we have lawyers without history when the violations are outrageous,” said Florida's top court and stated that the Florida Messlatte in April 2023 had submitted a six-story action against the lawyer in April 2023 after several judicial judicial investments, who in his cases were judicial in court, had taken over in his cases.

Law.com has the decision of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Two of the cases stated that Leigh in the Palm Beach County school district and other opposing parties in three related cases before the US district court for the southern district of Florida “conducted humiliating, derogatory and threatening social media positions”, said Florida. Leigh also posted “violent, pathological news”, including one that says: “After this round if if [sic] Deposits in the next 2 weeks would like to start a shooting campaign. “

The defense lawyer, citing security concerns, asked for a protection order from the Federal Court, said Florida's Supreme Court. The Federal Supreme Court made the application and ordered an armed police officer to be present for all remaining deposits. Later, Leigh suspended it for two years.

Leigh also made false accusations in court files for an opposing lawyer, of whom he said, according to the opinion of the Supreme Court of Florida.

The bar in Florida claimed in the complaint against Leigh that he had committed several violations of the rule when he had commissioned a poisonous collective suit for the residents of Stonybrook Apartments in the 15th judiciary of Florida, the Supreme Court of Florida said.

“Leigh was strongly incompetent in trying to initiate the class action in the name of the residents of Stonybrook,” says the opinion of the Supreme Court of Florida. “He tried repeatedly to make a lawsuit by submitting an application for injunctive relief, even after the Court of Justice had rejected the application as inappropriate.”

Leigh was despised and sanctioned for violating numerous court resolutions, said Florida's Supreme Court. He later incorrectly accused the judge of Chairman Circuit Court due to racist prejudices in an appeal against contempt and sanctions.

“We disapprovable the recommended sanction of a 91-day suspension of the referee,” said Florida's Supreme Court. “In view of the multitude of crimes and outrageous character of Leigh's behavior, the payment of the reasonable sanction is.”

“If he did not follow judicial orders and rules, he has shown the courts, the parties involved and the entire legal system,” added the state's Supreme Court. “In addition, his repeated actions indicate an unwillingness to learn from his mistakes. We believe that such an obvious misconduct means an important character defect and deserves a severe sanction. “

Leigh told the ABA journal that the decision of the Supreme Court of Florida “false and part of a wider trend of retaliation”.

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