IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 11th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION CASE NO. 01-10180 CA 25 ROSENTHAL, ROSENTHAL, RASCO, STOK & WOLF, a Florida general partnership, ffs,-. vs. STEPHAN LAWRENCE, individually, and BEAR, STEARNS & CO., INC., a New York corporation, Defendants. STEPHAN J. LAWRENCE, Counter-Plaintiff/ Third Party Plaintiff vs. ROSENTHAL, ROSENTHAL, RASCO, STOK & WOLF, a Florida general partnership,. ounter-Defendant and ROBERT STOK, Third Party Defendant. Dade County ourthouse 73 West Flagler Street Miami, Florida January 20, 2006 Friday, :10 a.m. The above-entitled cause came on for Hearing before the Honorable HERBERT STETTIN, Circuit Court Judge, taken before TERI NAAR-COHEN, Registered Professional Reporter and Notary Public in and for the State of Florida at Large. . _ _
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1THEREUPON:2(The following proceedings were had:)3THE COURT: Let's go on the record. This4is Rosenthal, Rosenthal, Rasco, Stok and Wolf,5plaintiff versus Stephan Lawrence.6MS. DUNAJ: The Rosenthal firm is the7plaintiff in a mortgage foreclosure and suit on a8promissory note that was against Stephan Lawrence.9THE COURT: And in turn Mr. Lawrence has
10counterclaimed against the Rosenthal firm and others.11MS. DUNAJ: And a third party claim against12Mr. Stok.13THE COURT: And the motion before me now is14a motion to recuse myself. Under the law I'm required15to rule on that before dealing with any other matters.16Now let me tell you my memory of this before17I tell you what I'm going to do. First, I represented18the trustee of a trust established by Mr. Lawrence.
19The issues arose in the bankruptcy setting and I was,20as part of my representation, working directly with Mr.21Stok. That is, dealing with him as a party in the2 2litigation, and there were some issues on which we23
cooperated and a number on which we did not because we
2 4had the trustee as our client and were independent of25the beneficiary, Mr. Lawrence.Q.......71c...Nem4=4-
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1And, of course, I continued in that role for2about a year or two. I think I was still doing it when3I stopped practicing and started sitting again as a
4senior judge.5In addition, I also had an opportunity a6number of years back to represent the Keith, Mack firm
7when Mr. Shapiro was a partner in that firm, including
8one fairly lengthy jury trial and a couple of other9pieces of litigation during which I got to know Mr.
10Shapiro and work with him.11Under these circumstances I'm going to12recuse myself on my own motion. I do not think it13appropriate that I sit on a case in which -- off the14record for a minute.15(Discussion had off the record.)16THE COURT: Back on the record. And I17therefore recuse myself. Thank you.
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7I, Teri Naar-Cohen, Registered Professional8Reporter, certify that I was authorized to and did9stenographically report the foregoing proceedings and1 0that the transcript is a true record thereof.1 1I further certify that I am not a relative,1 2employee, attorney, or counsel of any of the parties,1 3nor am I a relative or employee of any of the parties'1 4attorney or counsel connected with the action, nor am I1 5financially interested in the action.1 6
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