The Florida Bar v. Louis Randolf Townsend, Jr.

We have for review a referee’s report recommending that Respondent Louis Randolf Townsend, Jr., not be held in contempt of this Court’s January 17, 2008, suspension order in Florida Bar v. Townsend, case number SC07-81. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla. Const. As discussed in this opinion, we disapprove the referee’s recommendation in part, and hold Townsend in contempt based on his failure to notify the circuit court of his thirty-day suspension in ease number SC07-81, in violation of Rule Regulating the Florida Bar 3-5.1(h). We also conclude that Townsend made misrepresentations…