What the Florida register tells you — and for how long
The Florida Bar is authoritative. It publishes bar number, standing, eligibility, admission date and discipline, and it stands behind all of it. There is one catch, and on this page it is a large one.
Florida publishes a ten-year window. That is the whole of the disciplinary history you can see online. With ten lawyers on this page, that single rule now produces ten different amounts of evidence behind one identical green badge:
Gerson’s 30-day suspension in 2018 falls inside the decade, so it appears, and we report it. Had it happened in 2014, the same page would show nothing at all — and Schwartz’s “None” means none since 2016, not none ever.
The one listing where “None” means none
Echevarria was admitted in September 2016 — nine years ago. Ten published years covers everything he has ever done as a lawyer. His is the only listing on this entire site where the word “None” on a bar record is a complete statement rather than a partial one.
That is not a recommendation. Nine years is nine years, and Stabinski’s fifty-six carry experience that a clean short record cannot. It is the opposite point: the badge is identical on both cards, and the amount of evidence behind it differs by a factor of six. Anyone comparing lawyers on “no disciplinary history” alone is comparing two different claims that happen to share a wording.
Compare Georgia, which publishes from 1991 and therefore covers whole careers. Same badge, different amount of evidence behind it. Older Florida history exists; it requires contacting the Bar directly, and we have not.
What we haven’t checked
Not established. Any disciplinary history before 2016 for nine of these ten lawyers — including 46 of Stabinski’s 56 years, 45 of Gerson’s 55 and 33 of Schwartz’s 43. Only Echevarria’s record is fully covered by the published window. Four other-state claims that no Florida register can settle: Mitchell’s Louisiana admission, Uriarte’s Texas and D.C. expansion, Demanda’s Texas courts and Washington D.C. service, and Perazzo’s Georgia and Texas state courts. Fee terms for any of the ten — The Florida Bar does not publish them, unlike Texas. Every firm’s other lawyers. Court records for case outcomes. A bar check is a floor, not a ranking.
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