PROPOSED CHANGES TO FLORIDA BAR RULES *
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Proposed changes to Rule
4-7.1, "Lawyer-to-Lawyer and Lawyer-to-Client Communications"
(Case No. 09-394) |
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Report of The Florida Bar |
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Text of Proposed Rule Changes |
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Comments filed by Tim Chinaris re Rule 4-7.1,
Lawyer-to-lawyer and lawyer-to-client communications |
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Multiple rule
changes filed with Supreme Court in October 2008 (Case
No. SC08-1890) [Rules adopted 11/19/2009] |
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Florida Bar's Petition |
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Text of Proposed Rule Changes |
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(Rules 4-1.5 (nonrefundable fees); 4-1.8 and Comment (gifts from clients,
advances to clients); 4-1.9 (disclosing former client confidences); 4-3.3
(applicability to 3rd-party neutrals, conformity with ABA rule, client
perjury); 4-7.2 (celebrities and sounds in ads); 4-7.4 (direct mail ads in
domestic injunction cases); 4-7.5 (nonlawyer spokespersons in TV and radio
ads); 4-7.7 (content of required ad filings); 4-7.10 (accepting referrals
from, and broadening definition of, lawyer referral services); 4-8.4 (sex
with clients); 5-1.1 (overdraft protection for trust accounts prohibited);
5-1.2 (trust account records in electronic form)) |
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RULES AS ADOPTED November 19, 2009 (Effective
2/1/2010) [In re:
Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar,
__ So.3d ___ (Fla., No. SC08-1890, 11/19/2009)] |
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Rule change
regarding Internet advertising by lawyers filed with Supreme Court in
February 2008 (Case No. SC08-1181) [Rule
adopted 11/19/2009] |
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Florida Bar's Petition |
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Text of Proposed Rule Change
(Exhibit B) |
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(amendments to Rule 4-7.6 "Computer-Accessed
Communications") |
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Comments filed by Tim Chinaris re Rule 4-7.6,
Computer-Accessed Communications |
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Final Report of Florida Bar Special Committee on Website Advertising Rules
(Exhibit D) |
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COURT'S INITIAL DENIAL OF PROPOSED CHANGES February 27, 2009
[In
re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar -- Rule 4-7.6,
Computer Accessed Communications, 34 Fla.L.Weekly S261 (Fla., No.
SC08-1181, 2/27/2009), 2009 WL 485105] |
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RULE AS ADOPTED November 19, 2009 (Effective
1/1/2010) [In re:
Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar -- Rule 4-7.6, Computer
Accessed Communications), __ So.3d ___ (Fla., No. SC08-1181, 11/29/2009)
(revised opinion)] |
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Rule change regarding
multijurisdictional practice of law filed with Supreme Court in June 2007
(Case No. SC07-1844) [Rules adopted 9/11/2008] |
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Florida Bar's Report in Support of Proposal |
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Text of Proposed Change to Rule 4-5.5 |
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(amendments to Rule 1-3.11, Rule 4-5.5 "Unlicensed Practice
of Law; Multijurisdictional Practice of Law," and R.Jud.Admin. 2.510) |
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RULES AS ADOPTED September 11, 2008 (Effective 1/1/2009)
[In
re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar and the Rules of
Judicial Administration -- Multijurisdictional Practice of Law, 991
So.2d 842 (Fla. 2008)] |
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Rule change creating
"Florida Registered Paralegal Program" filed with Supreme Court in
August 2006 (Case No. SC06-1622) [Rules
adopted 11/15/2007] (click
here for more information) |
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Florida Bar's Petition |
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Text of Proposed Rule Change |
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(creation of 2-tiered paralegal registration program, including Code of
Ethics and Responsibility and discipline system) |
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RULES AS ADOPTED November 15, 2007 (Effective
3/1/2008) [In
re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar -- Florida Registered
Paralegal Program, 969 So.2d 360 (Fla. 2007)] |
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Rule change request filed
with Supreme Court in April 2006 (Case No. SC06-736)
[Rules adopted 12/20/2007] |
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Florida Bar's Petition |
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Text of Proposed Rule Changes |
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(annual rules filing, including: fee contracts providing for
authorization of fee disputes between lawyer and client) |
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RULES AS ADOPTED December 20, 2007 (Effective 3/1/2008)
[In
re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, 978 So.2d
91, 32 Fla.L.Weekly S14 (Fla., No. SC06-736, 12/20/2007)] |
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Rule change request filed by
bar members (re: medical malpractice constitutional amendment and fees) in
June 2005 (Case No. SC05-1150) [Rule
adopted 9/28/2006] |
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Petition by 50 bar members (including former Chief Justice Stephen
Grimes) |
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Text of Proposed Rule Change filed by Florida Bar on February 23, 2006 (scroll
down to "Exhibit C") |
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RULE AS ADOPTED September 28, 2006 (Effective
9/28/2006) [In
re: Amendment to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar -- Rule
4-1.5(f)(4)(B) of the Rules of Professional Conduct, 939 So.2d 1032
(Fla. 2006)] |
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Rule change request filed
with Supreme Court in December 2005
(Case No. SC05-2194)
[Rules adopted 11/2/2006] |
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Florida Bar's Petition |
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Text of Proposed Rule Changes |
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(advertising rule changes proposed by Advertising Task Force
2004) |
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RULES AS INITIALLY ADOPTED November 2, 2006 (Effective
1/1/2007) [In re: Amendments to the Rules
Regulating The Florida Bar -- Advertising, 31 Fla.L.Weekly S767 (Fla., No.
SC05-2194, 11/2/2006),
2006 WL 3093126] |
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REVISED OPINION December 20, 2007 (Effective 2/1/2008)
[In
re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar -- Advertising,
971 So.2d 763 (Fla. 2007) (revised opinion)] |
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Rule change request filed
with Supreme Court in February 2005 (Case No. SC05-206)
[Rules adopted 10/6/2005] |
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Florida Bar's Petition |
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Text of Proposed Rule Changes |
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(annual rules filing, including: attorney's fees and costs; payments
to non-lawyer employees; contacts with firm clients by lawyer leaving a law
firm; increase in advertising review fee) |
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RULES AS ADOPTED October 6, 2005 (Effective 1/1/2006)
[In re:
Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, 916 So.2d 655 (Fla. 2005)] |
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Rule change request filed
with Supreme Court in December 2004 (Case No.
SC04-2246) [Rules
adopted 3/23/2006] |
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Florida Bar's Petition |
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Text of Proposed Rule Changes |
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("Ethics 2000" changes to Rules of Professional Conduct) |
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RULES AS ADOPTED
March
23, 2006 (Effective 5/22/2006)
[In
re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, 933 So.2d
417 (Fla. 2006)] |
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Rule change request filed
with Supreme Court in June 2004 (Case No. SC04-914)
[Rules adopted 5/12/2005] |
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Florida Bar's Petition |
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("Practicing With Professionalism" basic skills course requirement for new
lawyers) |
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RULES AS ADOPTED May 12, 2005 (Effective 5/12/2005)
[In re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar,
903 So.2d 183 (Fla. 2005)] |
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Rule change request filed with Supreme Court in February 2003
(Case No. SC04-135) [Rules adopted 5/12/2005] |
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Florida Bar's Petition |
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Text of Proposed Rule Changes |
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(multijurisdictional practice rule changes, including Rules of Judicial
Administration, Rules Regulating The Florida Bar Chapter 3, Rule of
Professional Conduct 4-5.5) |
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RULES AS ADOPTED May 12, 2005 (some effective 1/1/2006;
others effective 9/14/2006 due to hurricane) [In re:
Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar and the Florida Rules of
Judicial Administration, 907 So.2d 1138 (Fla. 2005)] |
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* For pending and
completed rules cases,
see Florida Supreme Court's website ("Rule Cases"
or
"Proposed Rules") |
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* For pending petitions,
see
Florida Bar "Rules Update" web page |