Florida Board of Bar Examiners re P.T.R.

P.T.R. asks this Court to review the Florida Board of Bar Examiners’ recommendation that he be denied admission to The Florida Bar. We have jurisdiction based on article V, section 15 of the Florida Constitution.

We disagree with the Board’s recommendation and order P.T.R.’s readmission to the Bar. Since P.T.R.’s disbarment, he has shown the rehabilitation required to merit his readmission. See Fla. Bar Admiss. R., art. Ill, § 4.e.

P.T.R. graduated from law school in 1975 and was admitted to the Bar later that year. He voluntarily withdrew from the practice of law in 1986, and was disbarred in…