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STATE BD. OF ADMIN. v. BURNS

No. 1D10-6572.

70 So.3d 678 (2011)

STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION, Appellant, v. Guy M. BURNS; Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, LLP fka Johnson, Blakely, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, P. A.; Thomas R. Grady; and Thomas R. Grady, P.A., Grady & Associates, L.P.A., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied October 5, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and James A. Peters , Special Counsel, Office of Attorney General, Tallahassee; and E. Lamar Taylor , Deputy General Counsel, State Board of Administration, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Richard Doran and Jason Gonzalez of Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee, and Jonathan S. Coleman of Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, LLP, Tampa, for Appellees.

PER CURIAM.

The State Board of Administration (SBA) challenges an order compelling arbitration pursuant to a contingency fee agreement it entered into with Appellees (hereafter "the law firms"). SBA contends that the parties did not agree to arbitrate the law firms' entitlement to compensation under the agreement. We agree and reverse.

SBA employed Alliance Capital Management (Alliance) as an investment manager to invest the assets of the Florida Retirement...

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