Supreme Court of Florida
In Re: Code for Resolving Professionalism Referrals and Amendments to Rule Regulating the Florida Bar 6-10.3
July 27, 2023
Summary
The Court adopted a new Code for Resolving Professionalism Referrals, revised the Professionalism Expectations, and amended the continuing legal education rule. The new code establishes an informal, peer-to-peer local professionalism-panel process distinct from formal disciplinary proceedings, while the revised expectations apply to in-person, remote, and online communications. The Court also reduced the total CLE requirement to 30 hours, required a two-hour Bar-produced professionalism course, and removed bias elimination from the five-hour sub-requirement.