THE FLA. BAR RE AMEND. TO FLA. BAR RULES

No. 89641.

697 So.2d 115 (1997)

THE FLORIDA BAR RE AMENDMENTS TO RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 17, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director; John W. Frost, II, President; Edward R. Blumberg, President-elect; John P. Cardillo, Chair, Rules Committee; Marguerite S. Boyd, Out-of-State Board Representative; Paul F. Hill, General Counsel; and John A. Boggs, Director of Lawyer Regulation, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, for Petitioner.

John A. Weiss of Weiss & Etkin, Tallahassee, V. Lynn Whitfield, President, National Bar Association, Inc., West Palm Beach, H.T. Smith of H.T. Smith, P.A., Miami, and Thomasina H. Williams, Law Offices Williams & Associates, P.A., Miami, on behalf of the Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association, Responding.


PER CURIAM.

The Florida Bar, as part of its annual review and with the authorization of the Board of Governors, petitions this Court to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar and to adopt new rules.1 Several members of the Bar and one private organization either support or oppose parts of the Bar's petition. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.

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