Clerk of Courts Howard Forman said a standoff with a gunman inside the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale should be a warning to county leaders that security improvements are desperately needed.

A sharply worded opinion by 11th U.S.

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.

Legal malpractice is nothing new, but the last two years have seen a spike in attorney misbehavior, says attorney Andrew Hall.

Federal agents confiscated yachts, cars and jewelry when they raided Scott and Kim Rothstein’s $6.4 million Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home in November, but Kim Rothstein wants some of the jewelry back. She has filed a petition in her husband’s criminal case, claiming the government has no right to keep some of the 304 seized watches, necklaces and earrings her husband gave her as gifts “based on their personal friendship and relationship” before the high-powered attorney started his $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme in 2005.