Supreme Court of Florida
In Re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar - Subchap — Lawson, J., concurring in part and dissenting…
March 8, 2018238 So. 3d 164
Summary
Justice Lawson concurred in adopting the proposed amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar but dissented from the directive requiring the Bar to propose a categorical prohibition on referrals from entities that also refer clients to other professionals. He would have deferred further regulation until the Bar investigated whether such referral arrangements caused actual misconduct or posed risks not present in existing doctor-lawyer referrals. Because this is a separate opinion, it states no controlling holding.