AMENDMENTS TO RULES REGULATING THE FLA. BAR

No. SC02-2035.

860 So.2d 394 (2003)

AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR AND THE FLORIDA FAMILY LAW RULES OF PROCEDURE (UNBUNDLED LEGAL SERVICES).

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 13, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tod Aronovitz, Former President, The Florida Bar, Miami, Florida; Miles A. McGrane III, President, The Florida Bar, Coral Gables, Florida; Kelly Overstreet Johnson, President-elect, Tallahassee, Florida; John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida; Honorable Linda Vitale, Administrative Judge, Family Division, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Michael Walsh, Immediate Past Chair, Family Law Rules Committee, West Palm Beach, Florida; Adele I. Stone, Chair, Unbundled Legal Services Special Committee II, Hollywood, Florida; Honorable Raymond T. McNeal, Circuit Judge, Member, Steering Committee on Family & Children in the Court, 2000-2002 Chair, Family Court Steering Committee, Ocala, Florida; Jeffrey P. Wasserman of Shapiro, Blasi & Wasserman, Member, Unbundled Legal Services Special Committee II, Hollywood, Florida; and Honorable Hugh Starnes, Circuit Judge, Twentieth Judicial Circuit, Fort Myers, Florida, on behalf of the Steering Committee on Families and Children in the Court, Responding.


PARIENTE, J.

The Unbundled Legal Services Special Committee II of The Florida Bar has filed a report proposing amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar and the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure to address unbundled legal services (also known as "limited representation" or "discrete task representation").1 We conclude that the intent of the proposed amendments, which is to increase effective, efficient, and meaningful access...

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