IN RE AMEND. TO RULES REGULATING FLA. BAR

No. SC04-135.

907 So.2d 1138 (2005)

In re AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR AND THE FLORIDA RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 12, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Honorable Claudia R. Isom, Chair, Rules of Judicial Administration Committee, Plant City, FL, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Miles A. McGrane, III, President, Kelly Overstreet Johnson, President-elect, Alan Bookman, President-elect Designate, Paul F. Hill, General Counsel, Mary Ellen Bateman, Director, Legal Division, Ethics, UPL, Professionalism, and Lori Holcomb, Director, Unlicensed Practice of Law, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, and John A. Yanchunis, Chair, Special Commission on the Multijurisdictional Practice of Law 2002, Tampa, FL, for Petitioners.

Jose I. Astigarraga, Edward M. Mullins, Edward H. Davis, Jr., and Elena M. Marlow, The International Law Section of The Florida Bar, Miami, Florida, Stephen T. Maher of Shutts and Bowen, LLP, The Florida Bar Business Law Section, Miami, Florida; Joseph R. Giannini, Director, The National Association for the Advancement of Multijurisdictional Practice, Los Angeles, CA; Kathy M. Klock, R. Michael Underwood and Jonathan Brennan Butler of Steel Hector and Davis, The Securities Industry Association Arbitration Committee, West Palm Beach, FL; Stanford R. Solomon of Solomon Tropp Law Group, P.A., Chair, The Judicial Administration Committee, Tampa, FL; Frederick J. Krebs, President and Susan Hackett, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Association of Corporate Counsel, Washington, DC; Charles W. Austin, Jr., President, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association; and Stephen Krosschell of Goodman and Nekvasil, P.A., Clearwater, FL, for Proponents.


PER CURIAM.

The Florida Bar has filed a petition to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar and the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration to address the multijurisdictional practice of law.1 We have jurisdiction. See art. V, §§ 2(a), 15, Fla. Const. We adopt the amendments.

BACKGROUND

The proposed amendments are the result of an extensive, well-deliberated process. In July 2000, the American...

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