‘Try to Seize Another Lawyer’s Bank Account’: Miami Attorney’s Trust Records Demanded in Litigation

A new motion in the Miami-Dade Cirucit Court shed light on what an ethics expert called a “nasty battle” between counsel for the management of the Setai Hotel in Miami Beach and attorneys for a former guest-turned-tenant.

NSU Law Professor Robert Jarvis. (Credit: Melanie Bell/ALM)

Bob Jarvis, an ethics expert at Nova Southeastern University College of Law, is not involved in the litigation that escalated when Setai Hotel Acquisition LLC hit  David Winker, defense counsel for Sarah Lazow, with a writ of garnishment and a request to produce copies of “all trust account records.”