THE FLORIDA BAR RE: AMENDMENT TO RULES

No. 68708.

510 So.2d 583 (1987)

THE FLORIDA BAR RE: AMENDMENT TO RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR (CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION).

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Reiter, President, The Florida Bar, West Palm Beach; Ray Ferrero, Jr., President-elect, The Florida Bar, Ft. Lauderdale; Phyllis Shampanier, Chairman, Integration Rule and Bylaws Committee, Miami Beach; William E. Loucks, Chairman, CLER Oversight Committee, Daytona Beach; John F. Harkness, Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee; John N. Hogenmuller, Director, Programs Div., The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida; and Dean Frank T. Read, University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, and Patricia A. Seitz, Miami, Fla., for Board of Governors of The Florida Bar, petitioner.

George O. Wilson, III, Chairman, Tampa; Jack O. Hackett, II, Chairman-elect, Punta Gorda; and Stephen C. Page, Secretary/Treasurer, Stuart, for General Practice Section, The Florida Bar; Henry P. Trawick, Jr., Sarasota; Joseph W. Little, Gainesville; and Alan R. Schwartz, Chief Judge, District Court of Appeal, Third District, as member, Executive Committee, Florida Conference of District Court of Appeal Judges, Miami; and John M. Scheb, Judge, District Court of Appeal, Second District, as President, Florida Conference of District Court of Appeal Judges, Lakeland, for respondents.


OVERTON, Justice.

We have for consideration The Florida Bar's petition requesting a mandatory continuing legal education requirement in the Integration Rule. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.

This petition represents a further step in the educational requirements for Florida's legal profession. In 1984, The Florida Bar's long-range planning committee recommended a mandatory continuing legal education plan to the Board of Governors. In the...

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