In Re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar (Biennial Report)

Summary

The court exercised jurisdiction over the Florida Bar's petition and adopted the proposed amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar, with two substantive exceptions. It declined to prohibit suspended or disbarred lawyers from performing lawful nonlegal work, and it modified a conflict-of-interest amendment to include family relationships by adoption. The amendments took effect on two specified dates, and one justice concurred in the result.