A Coral Gables attorney has been disbarred for abandoning clients after taking their money, ignoring court orders, extorting clients and lying to the state Supreme Court.
The state’s top court “permanently disbarred” Jay Farrow on May 21. That followed the recommendation from 11th Circuit Judge Ritamaria Gonzalez Cuervo, the referee for the seven-count discipline case against Farrow brought by the Florida Bar: permanent disbarment, payback of illegal or excessive fees in these cases and paying the Bar’s case costs of $3,506. Cuervo found the Bar showed that Farrow “engaged in blatantly abusive litigation tactics 2) failed to comply with court orders 3) charged excessive fees, 4) misappropriated fees paid by clients when he failed to perform the contracted legal services, 5) abandoned his clients and law practice, and 6) committed fraud on the Court by filing false or fraudulent documents in the disciplinary proceedings.” Farrow, 50, had been a Bar member since March 2003 with a previously clean discipline record. While the Bar convicted Farrow on those professional discipline cases, discipline documents say 13 grievances had been filed against him. More than a dozen of his clients spoke to the Miami Herald for a November 2024 article about money-for-nothing attorney-client relationships with Farrow. Clients who checked with the Florida Bar complained the organization didn’t let them know about another long, ongoing disciplinary proceeding against Farrow. As that progressed at the typically turgid pace of disciplinary matters, anyone checking Farrow’s Bar profile would see “Member in Good Standing.”
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