From Daily Business Review, via Law.com, comes the story of a lawyer’s “super-size” gaffe and its consequences.
Saying a bankruptcy judge was “a few french fries short of a Happy Meal” may cost an out-of-state lawyer the ability to practice in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.
The comment already has cost Chicago-based McDermott Will & Emery partner William P. Smith his client — Miami Beach’s Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute.
Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Myerson Isicoff in Miami also slapped the hospital with a restraining order at the same hearing where Smith made his fast-food quip. She found Mount Sinai’s anti-competitive actions in the bankruptcy case of South Beach Community Hospital violated bankruptcy law.
During a May 7 hearing, Smith told Isicoff, “I suggest with respect, your honor, that you’re a few french fries short of a Happy Meal in terms of what’s likely to take place.”