The Florida Bar v. Philip David Irish

Summary

The Court approved the referee’s findings that Philip David Irish committed felony drug offenses, abandoned and neglected multiple clients, misused client funds, and failed to cooperate with disciplinary inquiries. It held that Irish did not prove addiction to the steroids, interim rehabilitation, or sufficient cooperation to establish the asserted mitigating factors, and that his extensive misconduct supported disbarment. The Court disbarred Irish nunc pro tunc to October 8, 2008, imposed restitution as a condition of readmission, and awarded costs to The Florida Bar.