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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed April 29, 2020. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D19-1622 Lower Tribunal No. 19-6342 ________________ Jordan H. Jordan, Appellant, vs. Howard S. Friedman, et al., Appellees. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Antonio Arzola, Judge. Jordan H. Jordan (Coral Springs), for appellant. Keller Landsberg PA, and Elizabeth A. Izquierdo and D. David Keller (Fort Lauderdale), for appellees Howard S. Friedman and Fischler & Friedman, P.A. Before SALTER, SCALES, and HENDON, JJ. PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See Echevarria, McCalla, Raymer, Barrett & Frappier v. Cole, 950 So. 2d 380, 383 (Fla. 2007) (quoting Levin, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes & Mitchell, P.A. v. U.S. Fire Ins. Co., 639 So. 2d 606, 608 (Fla. 1994)) (holding that Florida’s litigation privilege affords absolute immunity “to any act occurring during the course of a judicial proceeding, regardless of whether the act involves a defamatory statement or other tortious behavior . . . so long as the act has some relation to the proceeding”); Fernandez v. Haber & Ganguzza, LLP, 30 So. 3d 644, 646-47 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010) (affirming the entry of a final summary judgment in favor of a law firm based on absolute litigation privilege where the actions the law firm took occurred during the course of a judicial proceeding, despite appellate court’s belief that the law firm’s behavior “may have been highly unethical”); see also Chakra 5, Inc. v. City of Miami Beach, 254 So. 3d 1056, 1061 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018) (holding that appellate court reviews de novo a trial court’s order granting a motion to dismiss with prejudice, and on appellate review, as the trial court was required to do, all well-pled allegations in the operative complaint are treated as true). 2