A Florida inmate is suing the man he’s convicted of burglarizing, claiming he was roughed up during a citizen’s arrest. After he allegedly stole a bicycle locked inside a van, Michael Dupree was apprehended by the owner and two others, who Dupree says pointed a gun at him, handcuffed him and kneed him in the back

A Miami attorney’s law license has been suspended for 60 days for disruptive and intimidating behavior in a deposition with DuPont attorneys in a Benlate damages case. The Florida Supreme Court also ordered a public reprimand, two years probation and mental health counseling for Robert Joseph Ratiner and required him to write letters of apology to people at the deposition. He must be videotaped or accompanied by co-counsel at future depositions.

Bankruptcy attorneys for the Scott Rothstein estate have filed suit against the Republican Party of Florida, seeking the repayment of $237,000 in campaign contributions from the jailed former attorney. In a suit filed this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Fort Lauderdale, Berger Singerman, the law firm for trustee Herbert Stettin, alleges that the Florida GOP has refused to return more than 10 different donations made by Rothstein over a four-year period.

Ruden McClosky has lost two equity partners, leaving the firm below the 40 equity partners required by its bank line of credit, according to sources.

While the ACLU and other nonprofit legal groups have been declared exempt from the Florida Bar’s strict proposal for regulating lawyer websites, the state’s largest law firms are starting to band together to protest the restrictions on advertising, largely on First Amendment grounds.