THE FLORIDA BAR RE AMENDMENT TO BYLAWS, ETC.

No. 59685.

400 So.2d 942 (1981)

The FLORIDA BAR RE AMENDMENT TO the BYLAWS UNDER the INTEGRATION RULE (FLORIDA DESIGNATION PLAN)

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard H. Gilbert, President, Tampa, and Samuel S. Smith, President-elect, Miami Beach, of The Florida Bar, Peter W. Zinober, Chairman, Designation Coordinating Committee of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith and Cutler, Tampa, and Rayford H. Taylor, Designation Director, Tallahassee, for petitioner.


OVERTON, Justice.

The Florida Bar has petitioned the Court to amend the Florida Designation Plan. A "designated lawyer" under the plan is one who has attended the approved and structured continuing legal education courses for the requisite number of hours each year. The proposed changes: (1) allow these lawyers to display their designation in locations consistent with the Code of Professional Responsibility; (2) allow the use of the descriptive phrase "Qualified in...

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