AMENDMENTS REGULATING BAR-ADVERTISING

No. 92,297.

762 So.2d 392 (1999)

AMENDMENTS TO RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR-ADVERTISING RULES.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 17, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edith G. Osman, President, The Florida Bar, Miami, Florida, Howard C. Coker, Past-president, The Florida Bar, Jacksonville, Florida, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Paul F. Hill, General Counsel and Elizabeth Clark Tarbert, Ethics Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida; Cynthia A. Everett, Chair, Rules Committee, Miami, Florida; Benjamin H. Hill, III, Chair, Joint Presidential Task Force on Advertising, Tampa, Florida; Timothy P. Chinaris, Jacksonville, Florida; C. Rufus Pennington, III of Margol & Pennington, Jacksonville, Florida; and Barry Richard of Greenberg, Traurig, P.A., Tallahassee, Florida, and Benjamin H. Hill, III of Hill, Ward & Henderson, Tampa, Florida, on behalf of The Florida Bar, for Petitioner.

Wilson Jerry Foster, Tallahassee, Florida; F. Wallace Pope, Jr. of Johnson, Blakely, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, Clearwater, Florida, on behalf of Leonard A. McCue & Associates d/b/a "Q Auto & Injury Attorneys"; Mark S. Gold of Gold & Associates, d/b/a The Ticket Clinic, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; W.F. "Casey" Ebsary, Jr., Tampa, Florida, on behalf of Lawgroup, P.A.; H. Louis Sirkin and Laura A. Abrams of Sirkin, Pinales, Mezibov & Schwartz, Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of The Debt Relief Law Center, Feinberg, Isaak & Smith, Attorneys-at-Law; George K. Rahdert and Alison M. Steele of Rahdert, Anderson, McGowan & Steele, St. Petersburg, Florida, on behalf of Nursing Home Abuse Law Center, Inc.; C.L. Darrow, General Counsel, San Ramon, California, and Bruce S. Rogow, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on behalf of R.W. Lynch Co., Inc.; Howard W. Weber, Tampa, Florida, on behalf of Government Employees Insurance Company; Chandler R. Finley of Finley & Associates, P.A., West Palm Beach, Florida; Richard N. Friedman, Miami, Florida; and David J. Kingsley of Kingsley & Kingsley, Plantation, Florida, Responding.


CORRECTED OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The Florida Bar has petitioned this Court to amend the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar relating to attorney advertising. Notice of the proposed amendments was published in The Florida Bar News, and this Court has received a number of comments in response. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.

Based in large part upon recommendations from The Florida Bar's Joint Presidential Advertising...

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