Supreme Court of Florida
In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating the Florida Bar - Chapter 3
September 19, 2024
Summary
The Supreme Court of Florida adopted amendments to Chapter 3 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, with several modifications to the Bar’s proposal. The amendments revise grievance-committee eligibility, disciplinary procedures involving incapacity, felony charges, diversion, frozen trust accounts, and other Bar proceedings, while declining to impose a proposed 10-day deadline on state attorneys for transmitting charging documents. The amendments become effective November 4, 2024, at 12:01 a.m.