Ferguson v. Ellis Rubin Law Offices, P.A.

Winston Churchill Ferguson appeals from a final judgment awarding Ellis Rubin Law Offices, P.A., $62,000 in an action on a written contract for legal services. For the following reasons, we reverse.

While in the Monroe County jail in Key West awaiting trial on nine felony counts, Ferguson, who was dissatisfied with his counsel of record, contacted Ellis Rubin to discuss retaining Rubin as his new attorney. Ellis Rubin visited Ferguson in jail and assured him that, while he would personally handle the case, he would send his son Mark Rubin, a 1984 law graduate, to do the “foot work” for him.

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