IN RE AMENDMENTS TO RULES

No. 74538.

598 So.2d 41 (1992)

In re AMENDMENTS TO RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR — 13.1(a) AND RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION — 2.065 (LEGAL AID).

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearings Denied June 1, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbot D'Alemberte and Randall C. Berg, Jr. of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, for fifty-eight active members of The Florida Bar, for petitioner.

Benjamin H. Hill, III, President, Tampa, Alan T. Dimond, President-elect, Miami, James A. Baxter, Chairman of Board of Governor's Committee on Access To The Legal System, Clearwater, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director and Mary Ellen Bateman, UPL Counsel, Tallahassee, for The Florida Bar, Anthony C. Musto, Chairman, Florida Rules of Judicial Admin. Committee, of Musto, Zaremba and Rosenthal, Coral Gables, James E. Tribble of Blackwell & Walker, P.A., Miami, and Gerald T. Wetherington, Circuit Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Kendall B. Coffey, President and Sharon L. Langer, Director, Miami, for Dade County Bar Ass'n, Robert M. Brochin, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Office of Governor, Tallahassee, for Governor Lawton Chiles and Lieutenant Governor Kenneth H. MacKay, Jack McLean, Jr., President of Project Directors Ass'n and Scott T. Manion, Executive Director of Florida Legal Services, Tallahassee, for The Project Directors Ass'n, Michael H. Davidson, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Henry P. Trawick, Jr., Sarasota, Brian C. Sanders, Fort Walton Beach, Joseph W. Little, Gainesville, Harvey M. Alper, Altamonte Springs, Richard A. Culbertson, Orlando, and Jerry A. DeVane, Lakeland, and Milton A. Galbraith, Jr., Clearwater, active members of The Florida Bar, for respondent.

William A. VanNortwick, Jr., Chair, of Martin, Ade, Birchfield & Mickler, Jacksonville, C. Hamilton Cook, Vice-Chair, West Palm Beach, and Paul C. Doyle, Staff Director, Orlando, for the Report of The Florida Bar/Florida Bar Foundation Joint Com'n on the Delivery of Legal Services to the Indigent in Florida.


OVERTON, Justice.

This Court, in its decision rendered on December 13, 1990,1 delayed its determination of the proper means to address the problems of legal representation of the poor in order to consider the "Report of the Florida Bar/Florida Bar Foundation Joint Commission on the Delivery of Legal Services to the Indigent in Florida," filed March 21, 1991.

In this report, the Commission states that the "[c]ritical legal needs...

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