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AMENDMENTS TO RULES REG. THE FLA. BAR — 4-7

No. SC11-1327.

108 So.3d 609 (2013)

In re AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR — SUBCHAPTER 4-7, LAWYER ADVERTISING RULES.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 31, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Harkness, Jr. , Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL; Elizabeth Clark Tarbert , Ethics Counsel, UPL Counsel, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, Barry Scott Richard of Greenburg Traurig, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.

Timothy Patrick Chinaris , Montgomery, Alabama; Bill Wagner of Wagner, Vaughan & McLaughlin, P.A., Tampa, FL; David Keller Miller of Broad & Cassel, Tallahassee, FL; Thomas Richard Julin and Jamie Zysk Isani of Hunton & Williams LLP, Miami, FL; Linden Kinder Cannon, III of Holland & Knight LLP, Jacksonville, FL and Charles David Tobin of Holland & Knight LLP, Washington, District of Columbia; Richard J. Ovelmen of Jorden Burt LLP, Miami, FL; Edmund T. Baxa, Jr. of Foley & Lardner LLP, Orlando, FL; Edward Soto of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Miami, FL; Douglas Martin Halsey and Raoul G. Cantero, III of White & Case LLP, Miami, FL; Peter Jenkins Winders and Joseph Hagedorn Lang, Jr. of Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa, FL; David W. Trench of Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP, Miami, FL; James Kellogg Green of James K. Green, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL; Arthur J. England, Jr. of Arthur J. England, Jr., P.A., Coral Gables, FL; Randall C. Marshall , Miami, FL; Michael T. Gibson of Michael T. Gibson, P.A., Orlando, FL; Honorable Scott Jay Silverman , Lawson E. Thomas Courthouse, Miami, FL, Responding with comments.

PER CURIAM.

The Florida Bar petitions this Court to consider proposed amendments to Subchapter 4-7 of the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar. See R. Regulating Fla. Bar 1-12.1. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.

In the petition, the Bar proposes comprehensively amending existing Subchapter 4-7, which governs lawyer advertising, by striking all current rules and adopting new rules. The proposed rules are the result of an extensive...

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