In re AMENDMENTS TO RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR — 1-3.1(a) AND RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION — 2.065 (LEGAL AID).
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December 13, 1990.
Rehearing Denied February 13, 1991.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Talbot D'Alemberte of Steel, Hector and Davis, Miami, on behalf of fifty-eight members of The Florida Bar, for petitioner.
James Fox Miller, President, Hollywood, Benjamin H. Hill, III, President-elect, Tampa, James A. Baxter, Chairman of Bd. of Governor's Committee on Access To The Legal System, Clearwater, Jack F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, and Mary Ellen Bateman, UPL Counsel, Tallahassee, on behalf of The Florida Bar; Anthony C. Musto, Chairman, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration Committee, of Musto, Zaremba and Rosenthal, Coral Gables, Henry P. Trawick, Jr., Sarasota, Brian C. Sanders, Fort Walton Beach, Joseph W. Little, Gainesville, and Harvey M. Alper, Altamonte Springs, Michael H. Davidson, Fort Lauderdale, and James E. Tribble of Blackwell & Walker, P.A., Miami, on behalf of the Dade County Bar Ass'n, responding.
Supreme Court of Florida.
OVERTON, Justice.
The Court has before it a petition of fifty-eight members1 of The Florida Bar who seek to have this Court (1) amend the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar to make clear that all members of The Florida Bar have a duty to provide aid to indigents when ordered to do so by a court and (2) adopt a rule of judicial administration that requires each circuit to develop a plan addressing the legal needs of the poor in that community...
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