THE FLORIDA BAR RE AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR.
Supreme Court of Florida.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 22, 1987.
October 22, 1987.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Joseph J. Reiter, President, Ray Ferrero, Jr., President-elect, Sidney A. Stubbs, Jr., Chairman, Committee to Review, Ben L. Bryan, Jr., Chairman, Rules and Bylaws Committee, George A. Dietz, Chairman, Disciplinary Procedures Committee, John R. Beranek, Chairman, Contingent Fees and Referral Practices Commission, and John A. Boggs, Director of Lawyer Regulation, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, for petitioner.
Thomas M. Ervin, Jr., Tallahassee and Marcia K. Cypen, Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc., Miami, for the Florida Bar.
Bill Wagner of Wagner, Cunningham, Vaughan and McLaughlin, P.A., Tampa, William C. Gentry of Gentry & Phillips, P.A., Jacksonville, and C. Rufus Pennington, III of Margol, Fryefield & Pennington, Jacksonville, for The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, Larry D. Beltz and Steven C. Ruth of L.D. Beltz & Associates, St. Petersburg, Henry P. Trawick, Jr., Sarasota, K.M. Moore, U.S. Atty., N.D. Fla., Tallahassee, Robert W. Merkle, U.S. Atty. and Joseph D. Magri, First Asst. U.S. Atty., M.D. Fla., Jacksonville, Leon B. Kellner, U.S. Atty. and Lawrence H. Sharf, Sp. Counsel, Executive Div., S.D. Fla., Miami, Eli H. Subin, Chairman and Thomas A. Pobjecky, for the Florida Bd. of Bar Examiners, Tallahassee, Arthur I. Jacobs, General Counsel for Florida Pros. Attys. Ass'n, Fernandina Beach, and Karen Bokat, Bureau of Competition, F.T.C., Washington, D.C., responding to petition.
Supreme Court of Florida.
PER CURIAM.
Pursuant to rule 1-12.1 of the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar, the bar's board of governors has petitioned the Court seeking adoption of numerous amendments to the bar rules. After hearing oral argument on the petition and after considering that argument as well as the numerous comments and suggestions received concerning these proposed amendments, we adopt, reject, and modify the proposals as discussed in this opinion.*...
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