with a broad brush that FDUTPA does not apply to attorney conduct and thus Plaintiffs’ FDUTPA claims must be dismissed. The statute itself does not explicitly mention the legal profession in this context. The firm acknowledges that to date, no Florida court has held that attorney conduct will not give rise to a FDUTPA claim. But the firm cites decisions from courts outside of Florida in which those states’ unfair trade practices acts were found to not apply to attorney conduct. Generally, the rationale in those cases is that, whereas lawyers are regulated by their state’s highest court, acts committed by lawyers in the course of practicing law will not support claims of unfair trade practices. See, e.g., Jamgochian v. Prousalis, No. 99C-10-022, 2000 WL 1610750 (Del.Super.Ct.2000) (<HOLDING>); Cripe v. Letter, 184 Ill.2d 185, 234 Ill.Dec.
holding that the punitive provisions of the delaware consumer fraud act were not applicable to attorney conduct occurring within the practice of law given the state supreme courts inherent constitutional and statutory authority to discipline members of the state bar noting the lack of consensus in different jurisdictions as to the applicability of state consumer fraud acts to attorney conduct holding that the state was a real party in interest when the attorney general filed suit under the illinois consumer fraud act on behalf of residents who were specifically aggrieved by violations of the act because the attorney general decides whether to bring the litigation and maintains control of it in her role as protector of the public and not as personal representative of the consumers for whom she seeks restitution holding that the authority of the supreme court to discipline judges and members of the bar is plenary holding that nothing in the legislative history of the pennsylvania consumer fraud act suggests that the legislature ever intended statutory language directed against consumer fraud to do away with the traditional elements of reliance and causation and accordingly in order to maintain a class action suit under the pennsylvania consumer fraud act a plaintiff must allege reliance holding that illinoiss consumer fraud act did not apply to the claim that attorneys charged excessive fees for legal services because the attorneyclient relationship was the subject of regulation by the state supreme court and the legislature did not specify that it intended the consumer fraud act to apply to the role of attorneys in relation to their clients