IN RE AM. TO RULE REGULATING THE FLA. BAR

No. SC16-104.

202 So.3d 37 (2016)

In re AMENDMENTS TO RULE REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR 4-1.5 — FEES AND COSTS FOR LEGAL SERVICES.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 6, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Harkness, Jr. , Executive Director, William J. Schifino, Jr. , President, Ramón A. Abadin , Past-President, Michael Jerome Higer , President-elect Designate, Jay Cohen , Chair, Special Committee on Lien Resolution, Lori S. Holcomb , DEUP Division Director, and Elizabeth Clark Tarbert , Ethics Counsel, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.

Joseph H. Saunders of Saunders & Walker, P.A., Pinellas Park, FL; Theodore Babbitt of the Law Offices of Babbitt & Johnson, West Palm Beach, FL; John William Staunton of Staunton & Faglie, PL, Clearwater, FL; Floyd Benjamin Faglie of Staunton & Faglie, PL, Monticello, FL; Major Best Harding and Elizabeth D. Barron of Ausley McMullen, P.A., Tallahassee, FL; David Anthony Hook , Chair, Elder Law Section of The Florida Bar, The Hook Law Group, New Port Richey, FL; Cary Leigh Moss , President, Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys, Sawyer & Sawyer, Orlando, FL; Daniel Joseph Alvarez , Synergy Lien Resolution Services, Tampa, FL; Sylvius H. von Saucken , The Garretson Resolution Group, Inc., Charlotte, NC, Responding with Comments.


This matter is before the Court on the petition of The Florida Bar (Bar) proposing that the Court amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar (Bar Rules). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.

BACKGROUND

Previously, in In re Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar (Biannual Report),<...

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