Three Miami attorneys have been suspended or disbarred for the same reason
Three Miami-Dade attorneys — two of them still among the living — got disciplined by the state Supreme Court for not letting the Florida Bar know that they let relevant parties know about their suspension.
Of the three, one is a former Miami-Dade prosecutor who says she wanted to leave law behind anyway and another is dead.
Suspended attorneys must submit a sworn affidavit to the Florida Bar within 30 days to the Florida Bar stating that they’ve told clients, tribunals and opposing attorneys of their suspension. If they don’t, the Bar sends a few reminders before starting a new discipline file based on the non-existent affidavit. Ghosting the Bar long enough begets a new Bar petition to the state Supreme Court that the attorney be found in contempt and receive the next level of punishment.
Aram Bloom, North Miami-Dade
Aram Bloom began a 91-day suspension in August 2023 for a 2019 abandonment of clients. The June 28, 2023 referee’s report said Bloom had been “cooperative with the Bar throughout the instant disciplinary action and is remorseful for his neglect of the client’s matter” and “voluntarily withdrew from representing clients for over two years in 2020-2022 as a result of these matters.”
When Bloom didn’t submit the required affidavit, the Bar petitioned that he be found in contempt, which the state Supreme Court granted in January 2024. That one-year suspension required another affidavit, which Bloom didn’t submit, so the Bar started a whole contempt petition cycle started over again.
Bloom’s three-year suspension started Dec. 4.
Miami Herald attempts to reach Bloom by phone and email have failed, but database indications are he’s still alive.
Lisa Jacobs, Aventura
Lisa Jacobs also is still living and just fine with her disbarment.
“I decided not to return and was ceasing my legal career,” Jacobs said to the Herald by phone. “They (the Florida Bar) won’t allow you to do that.”
Jacobs resigned from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office, where she’d been a division chief, shortly after her 2016 arrest on DUI and careless driving charges. She eventually pleaded no contest to careless driving and did nine months probation. Following a 2018 car crash, she pleaded no contest to and was found guilty of DUI with property damage/personal injury and refusal to submit to a blood or breath test.
Jacobs’ 30-day suspension for her actions — and not informing the Bar of her guilty plea within 10 days — began July 2, 2021. She’d later be found in contempt of court for violating her rehabilitation contract with Florida Lawyers Assistance, an organization that assists lawyers with mental health and addiction issues.
After that 91-day suspension in July 2023, the Bar said Jacobs didn’t hand over the affidavit nor did she remove any indications in the public space that she was an attorney. Jacobs says she gave the affidavit to her attorney, but it somehow never got to the Bar. At least one LinkedIn profile saying she’s the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office felony division chief remains online as of publication time.
Jacobs received a one-year suspension in May 2024 and let herself be disbarred this past Dec. 15.
Emelike Nwosuocha, South Miami-Dade
Emelike Nwosuocha got suspended for three years posthumously.
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As detailed in the Jan. 12 Miami Herald story, Nwosuocha received a six-month suspension in August 2023, then was suspended again June 18, 2024 for the affidavit submission shortcoming and not paying assessed attorney’s fees. The affidavit submission from that suspension was due July 17, 2024. Nwosuocha hadn’t submitted it before he died of a heart attack on July 21, 2024.
On Oct. 8, 2025, the Bar petitioned that Nwosuocha be found in contempt of court for not submitting the affidavit. The state Supreme Court suspended him for three years on Dec. 11, 2025, almost 17 months after his death.
