HOWARD & ASSOCS. v. BWCI PENSION TRUSTEES

No. 4D19-1791.

298 So.3d 684 (2020)

HOWARD AND ASSOCIATES ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.A., a Florida Professional Association, and Timothy Howard, individually, Appellant, v. BWCI PENSION TRUSTEES LIMITED in their capacity as Trustees of the Deferred Retirement Annuity Trust Scheme A/C REF 1123/055, Providence Capital Holdings, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company, Cambridge Capital Group, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company, Cambridge Capital Group Advisors, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company, A&T Development, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company, Lance Friedman, Jeff Kahn, Addys Walker, Jose Cordero d/b/a Jose Antonio Private Lending, LLC, and individually, and Jim Keefer d/b/a Direct Private Lenders, Inc., and/or Alternative Funding Lenders, Inc., and individually, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 4, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie Reed Traband of Levine Kellogg Lehman Schneider + Grossman LLP, Miami, and John P. Leonard of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, Morristown, New Jersey, for appellant.

Steven M. Katzman and Charles J. Bennardini of Katzman Wasserman Bennardini & Rubinstein, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellee, BWCI Pension Trustees Limited in their capacities as Trustees of the Deferred Retirement Annuity Trust Scheme A/C REF 1123/005.


A law firm and a money manager entered into an "equity" agreement where the law firm received $640,000 from the money manager. As collateral, the law firm pledged attorneys' fees it anticipated from certain cases identified in the agreement. The money manager alleged that the law firm breached the agreement, and it filed suit, asserting...

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