Embattled Fort Lauderdale attorney Stephen Rakusin will keep his law license following a ruling from the Florida Supreme Court that found the Florida Bar filed its complaint outside the six-year statute-of-limitations window.

Rakusin was accused of filing a frivolous lawsuit based on false claims by former Broward Circuit Judge Laura Watson. The ex-judge had sued Miami law firm Stewart Tilghman Fox & Bianchi over comments it had made to the Daily Business Review about an earlier case, in which Watson was the defendant.