The Florida Bar filed the first petition for an emergency suspension of an attorney to the state Supreme Court since Hurricane Ian inflicted “catastrophic” damage as a Category 4 storm.

In the petition, the bar accused Jennifer Perez, a partner at Gauthier Murphy & Houghtaling, of recently assisting a nonlawyer in the “unlicensed practice of law, improperly supervising nonlawyer employees and engaging in the deception in operating a ‘mobile claim center’ in Fort Myers, Florida.”