The Florida Supreme Court in recent court orders disciplined sixteen attorneys, revoking the license of three, suspending eight, and reprimanding five.
Cristina Bosmenier, 6800 Harvala St., San Diego, CA, suspended for 30 days effective 30 days following an August 7 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2017) Bosmenier was arrested for two DUI offenses between October 2017 and February 2018, adjudicated guilty, and placed on criminal probation for 12 months. She successfully completed her probation. In another instance, Bosmenier was diverted to a Practice and Professional Enhancement Program for allegations of lack of competence and failure to communicate when terminating an attorney-client relationship in 2019. Bosmenier failed to complete the program. Bosmenier’s personal and professional circumstances have significantly changed since these ethical violations. She presented evidence of rehabilitation and mitigation, and she has accepted responsibility for her actions.
Alexis Francisco Carter, Jr., 1220 Commerce Park Dr., Suite 203, Longwood, public reprimand, to be published in the Southern Reporter, and attendance at The Florida Bar’s Professionalism Workshop, effective immediately following an August 21 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2009) Carter failed to provide a client with diligent representation and adequate communication, failed to timely and properly withdraw from the representation, and failed to accurately report his employment status to The Florida Bar.
Erika Danielle De Jesus, 12301 Lake Underhill Rd., Suite 213, Orlando, public reprimand to be administered in writing by the referee and to be published in the Southern Reporter, attendance at Ethics School and Professionalism Workshop, and Completion of Continuing Legal Education Course: Annual Ethics & Professionalism: Scary Tales of Unprofessional & Unethical Conduct, effective within 30 days of an August 14 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2018) De Jesus engaged in a conflict of interest when, after acting as a witness to the decedent’s Last Will and Testament, she purchased the largest asset of the estate, real property in Orlando, without negotiation of the sale price. De Jesus did not notify the court or the beneficiaries that she was the employee of the personal representative.
Jay Lewis Farrow, 1 Alhambra Plaza, Suite Ph, Coral Gables, suspended until further order of the court effective immediately following an August 4 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2003) Farrow was placed under emergency suspension for abandoning his clients and practice, taking excessive fees without providing any legal services, engaging in bad faith litigation tactics, and filing fraudulent pleadings in court.
Jose Pete Font, 1416 Argonaut Isle, Dania, suspended for six months effective immediately following an August 7 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2004) Font sought a contingency fee payment and filed a civil action against the client, despite not having a signed contingency fee agreement with the client beforehand as required under the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.
Chantel LaVonne Grant, 1515 S. Federal Hwy., Suite 113, Boca Raton, public reprimand effective immediately following an August 21 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2008) The fees Grant collected during representation of a client exceeded a reasonable fee for the services provided.
Tamara Grossman, 3301 N. University Dr., Suite 100, Coral Springs, suspended for 90 days and ordered to attend Ethics School effective one month following an August 7 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2012) While working as an associate at a law firm, Grossman represented clients outside the firm without authorization from the firm. When confronted with the allegations of moonlighting, Grossman did not deny the conduct. Likewise, the files remained on Grossman’s desktop, which is how the firm learned of the outside clients. Grossman was terminated based on her misconduct. She acknowledged the wrongfulness of her conduct.
Dorothy Kim Hufnagel, 4432 Commercial Way, Spring Hill, disciplinary revocation with leave to seek readmission effective 30 days following an August 7 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2005) Hufnagel neglected several dissolution of marriage cases. Hufnagel took a fee in at least one case where she did not perform any work. In addition, Hufnagel was incarcerated after being found in civil contempt for her failure to pay court-ordered alimony to her former spouse.
Kevin P. Mason, 1900 Glades Rd., Suite 270, Boca Raton, public reprimand effective immediately following an August 21 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2000) At the start of the representation, Mason failed to reasonably explain to the client the extent to which the client’s credit rating could be adversely impacted. The fee collected by Mason exceeded a reasonable fee for the services provided to the client.
Robin E. Myers, P.O. Box 282, Bristol, suspended for 91 days and ordered to attend Ethics School effective 30 days following court order an August 14 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2005) Myers engaged in three separate acts of misconduct. In the first matter, he failed to appear at multiple hearings on behalf of criminal clients. In the second matter, he engaged in inappropriate communications with a client. In the third matter, he failed to timely respond to multiple Bar inquires after a complaint was filed.
Keith Allen Pope, 3226 Division St., Knoxville, TN, suspended for 91 days effective one month following an August 28 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 1986) This is a reciprocal case from Tennessee. Pope received a public censure. In Tennessee, where Pope resides, police officers responded to a domestic disturbance between Pope and his then girlfriend. A order of protection was previously entered against Pope where he was ordered to stay away from her home. As a result, Pope was arrested for violating an order of protection in Tennessee. Pope pled guilty to a violation of an Order of Protection in violation of his bond conditions. Pope was sentenced to six months in confinement, 1/3 to serve, and supervised probation after serving sentence. Pope did not participate in this proceeding.
Kevin T. Vagovic, 210 S Beach St., Suite 203, Daytona Beach, suspended for two years, completion of Ethics School and Professionalism Workshop, completion of a Florida Lawyer’s Assistance, Inc., evaluation within 30 days of the court’s order and compliance with any recommendations for treatment. Vagovic’s suspension is effective immediately following an August 28 court order, as he was already suspended for failing to respond to the court’s Order to Show Cause. (Admitted to Practice: 2014) Vagovic engaged in acts of misconduct in connection with his representation of clients in two separate matters. In the first matter, he represented a mother and adult daughter in a dispute over real property and undermined their confidence in his representation by sending unsolicited sexually suggestive messages to one client and failing to appear for a hearing in the case. In the second matter, Vagovic failed to maintain communication with his clients in an unlawful detainer action and failed to appear in person for their trial, though his attendance was expressly required by the court.
Stephen Everett Walker, 810 Saturn St., Suite 16, Jupiter, disciplinary revocation with leave to seek readmission effective immediately following an August 7 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2001) Walker was found in civil contempt for filing joint tax documents without informing his former wife. He was also charged with the misdemeanor of trespass in a structure or conveyance (the state entered a nolle prosequi upon Walker’s successful completion of a deferred prosecution agreement). He had an injunction for protection against stalking entered against him and he was found to have filed frivolous and abusive claims in court against opposing parties and counsel.
Paul Gerard Wersant, 40575 California Oaks Rd., Suite D-2, Box 327, Murrieta, CA, disciplinary revocation without leave to seek readmission effective immediately following an August 7 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2008) The court approved Wersant’s Petition for Disciplinary Revocation by Order dated August 7, 2025. Wersant had a disciplinary case pending based on a felony conviction in Georgia for one county of filing false documents and two counts interstate interference with child custody.
Wanda Bernice Whigham, 515 N. Flagler Dr., Suite P300, West Palm Beach, public reprimand effective immediately following an August 14 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 1998) In her personal bankruptcy case, Whigham belatedly disclosed a bank account that she failed to identify in her initial bankruptcy disclosures.
Rawsi Williams, 701 Brickell Ave., Suite 1550, Miami, suspended until further order of the court effective immediately following an August 5 court order. (Admitted to Practice: 2013) Williams was placed under emergency suspension, and her trust accounts have been frozen due to misappropriation of some of her client’s trust funds in violation of Chapter 5 of The Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.
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