The Florida Bar, Complainant v. Daniel Gary Gass, Respondent

Summary

The Court approved the referee’s factual findings and upheld findings that Gass violated duties of diligence, client communication, and conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. It rejected the finding that he violated the rule concerning consultation about ethical limitations because the factual findings did not support that conclusion. Given the clients’ arrests and incarceration caused by Gass’s neglect and communication failures, the Court increased the sanction from a sixty-day suspension to a one-year suspension.