Supreme Court of Florida

In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating the Florida Bar - Continuing Legal Education

February 29, 2024379 So. 3d 1130

Summary

The court adopted the Florida Bar’s proposed amendments to several rules governing continuing legal education and related reinstatement, deferment, exemption, paralegal, and military-spouse requirements. The amendments conform those rules to the previously reduced 30-hour continuing legal education requirement and the new two-credit-hour Florida Legal Professionalism course requirement, with related proportional and grammatical changes. The amendments were made effective as of January 8, 2024.