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IN DISCIPLINARY DISTRICT III
OF THE
BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
OF THE
SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE
IN RE: Zachery Steven Darnell, #035914
FILE NO. 73452-6-MB
Respondent, an attorney licensed
to practice law in Tennessee
(Hamilton County)
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PUBLIC CENSURE
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The above complaint was filed against Zachery Steven Darnell, #035914, an attorney
licensed to practice law in Tennessee, alleging certain acts of misconduct. Pursuant to Tenn. Sup.
Ct. R. 9, the Board of Professional Responsibility considered this matter at its meeting on March
14, 2025.
In or about June 2020, Mr. Darnell, Respondent, along with two other attorneys in his firm,
was retained by Abacus Pharma International, LLC (âAPIâ) and its president (collectively
âDefendantsâ) to represent them in a breach of contract action filed by Lumley Enterprise, LLC
(Lumley) in the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida.
On July 3, 2020, Judge Hanzman entered an Order (the âOrderâ) appointing a Custodian to take
possession of certain Test Kits and enjoined Defendants from dissipating any corporate assets of
API outside the ordinary course of business until and unless 300,000 Test Kits were delivered to,
and in the physical custody of, the Custodian or further Order of the Court. The Order further
required all persons, corporations or other entities now or hereafter in possession of the Test Kits,
or any part thereof, as well as any profits collected or derived from the Test Kits to forthwith and
without further order of the Court surrender such possession to the Custodian. At no time material