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AMENDMENTS TO RULE 4-6.1 OF THE FLA. BAR

No. 88646.

696 So.2d 734 (1997)

AMENDMENTS TO RULE 4-6.1 OF THE RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR—PRO BONO PUBLIC SERVICE.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied July 9, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Frost, II, President, Bartow, Edward R. Blumberg, President-elect, Miami, John A. DeVault, III, Immediate Past-president, Jacksonville, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Paul F. Hill, General Counsel and John A. Boggs, Director of Lawyer Regulation, Tallahassee, Joseph W. Little, Gainesville, Harvey M. Alper of Massey, Alper & Walden, Altamonte Springs, Thomas Rowe Schwarz, Lauderhill, and Jane E. Hendricks, Miami, for Petitioner.

Talbot D'Alemberte, Tallahassee, Alan C. Sundberg of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., Tallahassee, and Randall C. Berg, Jr., Peter M. Siegel and David Weintraub of Florida Justice Institute, Inc., Miami, Wm. Reece Smith, Jr., Tampa, Lynn Whitfield, President, and Gerald Williams, General Counsel, Florida Chapter of The National Bar Association, West Palm Beach, Bruce Levine, President of the Florida Pro Bono Coordinators Association, Miami, and Miyoshi D. Smith, Miami, in Opposition to the Petition.

PER CURIAM.

The Florida Bar (the Bar) petitions this Court for entry of an order amending rule 4-6.1 of the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 15, Fla. Const. We deny the petition.

The Bar seeks to amend rule 4-6.1 to eliminate the mandatory annual reporting provision that currently requires all members of the Bar to report whether and how they have satisfied their professional responsibility of providing pro bono legal...

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