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THE FLORIDA BAR

No. 70615.

547 So.2d 909 (1989)

THE FLORIDA BAR. In re ADVISORY OPINION HRS NONLAWYER COUNSELOR.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied September 13, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda K. Harris, Deputy General Counsel, Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, and James A. Sawyer, Dist. VII Legal Counsel, Orlando, for respondent.

Robert M. Sondak, Miami, and Mary Ellen Bateman, UPL Counsel, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, for the Florida Bar Standing Committee on Unlicensed Practice of Law.

C. James Dulfer, Arlene C. Huszar, John M. Ratliff, Deborah A. Schroth and Brent R. Taylor, Tallahassee, and Christina A. Zawisza, Miami, Florida Legal Services, Inc., for Family/Juvenile Workgroup of Florida Legal Services, Inc.

Joe Spicola, Gen. Counsel, Office of the Governor, Tallahassee, for Honorable Bob Martinez, Governor of the State of Florida, and William D. Preston and Carolyn S. Raepple of Hopping, Boyd, Green and Sams, Tallahassee, for Children's Home Soc. of Florida, amici curiae.

SHAW, Justice.

In The Florida Bar re Advisory Opinion HRS Nonlawyer Counselor, 518 So.2d 1270 (Fla. 1988), we determined that Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS or Department) lay counselors are engaged in the practice of law in drafting legal documents and representing HRS in court in uncontested juvenile dependency proceedings. We permitted the practice to continue while an ad hoc committee of...

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