Tampa Radio: Bubba's Attorneys Face Disbarment

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The county judge who found three Tampa attorneys guilty last month of "deliberately and maliciously" arranging the arrest of a rival lawyer will hold the next phase of their disciplinary trial Thursday, when he will consider whether to recommend permanent disbarment. (Click Here for story).

The Tampa Bay Times reports the penalty phase is expected to last two days and to include witness testimony put on by defense attorneys and the Florida Bar, both of whom will attempt to influence the judge's decision.

In July, Pinellas-Pasco Senior Judge W. Douglas Baird ruled that the three Adams & Diaco lawyers — Robert Adams, Stephen Diaco, and Adam Filthaut — had worked together to orchestrate the 2013 DUI arrest of C. Philip Campbell to gain an advantage in a defamation lawsuit pitting their client, radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, against his radio rival, Todd "MJ" Schnitt. At the time, Campbell was representing Schnitt.

Faced with the possibility of two of the firm's partners and one of its top attorneys losing their law licenses, the lawyers have already said they plan to challenge the judge's ruling finding them responsible for Campbell's arrest.

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