According to reports, A federal judge in Miami has kicked a Florida lawyer and his firm off of a fair labor class action partly because of "flagrant disrespect."

The lawyer {name omitted, sued a limousine service and corporate officers in two cases. According to anorderby a U.S. District Judge, the lawyer made “choice statements” in an email to opposing counsel in the prior case and disparaged the opposing lawyer before his clients. The lawyer was also accused of "deplorable behavior" in another case,: whereas, He scheduled depositions at Dunkin' Donuts, attended them in T-shirts and shorts, and then drew penis pictures and played the game Angry Birds during deposition testimony.

Above the Law, theSouth Florida Lawyersblog, and the Miami New Times blogRiptidehave stories.

Though the lawyer’s conduct occurred in a prior case, the judge wrote in the order, it is still relevant because it embarrassed the defendants and interfered with their relationship with their lawyer, [name omitted. The judge said the accused attorney acted with "flagrant disrespect" and engaged in a consistent course of unprofessional conduct.

In one instance in the former case, the accused attorney was accused of telling defendant an officer of the limousine company, that the limo company could afford a better lawyer and he would never settle with the accused attorney claims he merely advised the client to hire outside counsel who specializes in labor issues, and it wasn’t an ex parte conversation because opposing counsel was within view. But the judge cited an email written by that attorney to the opposing counsel in which he appeared to confirm the allegation about the refusal to settle. The judge also cited the email for its "utter lack of professionalism." An excerpt reads:

“It is apparent that your MO is trying to purposefully delay things as much as possible. This is because it appears (from what I observed at trial), you are not a trial lawyer. If you want to play in the sand box with trial lawyers, you are going to do it the right way or we are going to call you out to the judge—every time. …. We are not interested, nor are our clients, in settlement discussions with you as long as you are the lawyer on the other side. You are causing your client a great disservice. If you were not on the other side of the table, we would have a better chance of any resolution and would sit with the principals of the company. I have told [client] this; Time to put your boots on and get to work. No more whining, no more complaining about how you have no support staff, no more complaining about how much work you have to do. Nobody on this side of the Internet cares.”

the accused attorney had chalked up the email to overzealousness on his part, but the judge disagreed. “Needless to say, accused attorney’s emails are far beyond (and at the same time, far short of) what zealous advocacy would require,” the judge wrote.

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