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THE FLORIDA BAR RE AMEND. TO INTEG. RULE, ETC.

No. 54081.

399 So.2d 1385 (1981)

THE FLORIDA BAR RE AMENDMENT TO INTEGRATION RULE (CERTIFICATION 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; Barry R. Davidson, Chairman, Court/Bar Committee on Specialization Regulation of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, Peter W. Zinober, Chairman, Designation Coordinating Committee of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, Tampa and Rayford H. Taylor, Designation Director, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Charles H. Egerton, Chairman, Tax Section, and Joel H. Sharp, Jr., Past Chairman, Tax Section, Orlando and Michael J. Canan, Vice Chairman, Standards and Competency Division, Lakeland, for the Tax Section of The Florida Bar, amicus curiae.

Stephen N. Zack, President, Young Lawyers Section of Floyd, Pearson, Stewart, Richman, Green & Weil, Miami and Lawrence G. Mathews, Jr., Board of Governors, Young Lawyers Section of Fawsett, Smith, Mackinnon & Mathews, Orlando, for the Young Lawyers Section of The Florida Bar, amicus curiae.

Talbot D'Alemberte of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, for amicus curiae.

OVERTON, Justice.

The Florida Bar Board of Governors has petitioned this Court to approve a plan which will allow members of The Florida Bar to become "certified" as having special competence in the areas of taxation and civil trial advocacy. In September, 1979, we rejected the bar's initial plan but approved lawyer certification in concept. We also suggested that the bar submit a pilot program and requested a recommendation of how certification could operate with...

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