IN RE AMENDMENTS TO RULES REG. BAR-ADVERTISING

No. SC05-2194.

971 So.2d 763 (2007)

In re AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR — ADVERTISING.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 20, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee, Florida, Henry M. Coxe, III, President, Jacksonville, Florida, Alan B. Bookman, Past President, Pensacola, Florida, Kenneth L. Marvin, Director of Lawyer Regulation, Mary Ellen Bateman, Interim Division Director, John Anthony Boggs, Director, Attorney Consumer Assistance Program, Elizabeth C. Tarbert, Ethics Counsel, Charles Chobee Ebbets, Chair, Special Committee on Website Advertising Rules, Kelly Overstreet Johnson of Broad and Cassel, and Barry S. Richard of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida, for Petitioner.

Bill Wagner of Wagner, Vaughan, McLaughlin and Brennan, P.A., Tampa, Florida, W.F. "Casey" Ebsary, Jr., Tampa, Florida, Timothy P. Chinaris, Montgomery, Alabama, Responding with comments.


PER CURIAM.

The Florida Bar petitions this Court to consider proposed amendments to chapter 4 of the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.

The proposals are the result of a study by the Bar's Advertising Task Force 2004 (Task Force) and affect subchapter 4-7 of the rules. The Task Force, which was appointed in February 2004, was charged by the Bar with the following mission:

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