Florida Supreme Court dismisses Florida Bar’s petition proposing substantial revisions to lawyer referral service rules

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert Update which will update my August 1, 2016 Ethics Alert and will discuss the recent Florida Supreme Court Order (May 3, 2017) dismissing the Bar’s petition for approval of the proposed substantial revisions to the Bar Rules related to lawyer referral services. The proposed rules would have Read More

Florida Supreme Court issues opinion stating that lawyers should be prohibited from accepting referrals from non-lawyer owned referral services

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Revised with corrected link to Supreme Court opinion only. I apologize for any inconvenience. Hello and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent opinion of the Supreme Court of Florida which rejected The Florida Bar’s proposed lawyer referral rules and stated that lawyers should be prohibited from accepting referrals from non-lawyer owned Read More

Florida Bar’s Board of Governors approves significant revisions to Bar trust account and lawyer referral rules

Hello and welcome to this Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the decisions of the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar (BOG) at its March 28, 2014 meeting, approving significant revisions to the trust account and lawyer referral rules. Articles in the March 1, 2014 issue of The Florida Bar News with summaries of Read More

The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors to consider proposed revisions to lawyer referral Rule 4-7.22 at its July 26, 2013 meeting

Hello and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the Florida Bar’s Board of Governors scheduled consideration of, inter alia, proposed revisions to Rule 4-7.22, The Florida Bar’s lawyer referral rule, at its July 26, 2013 meeting at Amelia Island. The BOG’s Review Committee on Professional Ethics has been looking at the recommendations of Read More

Florida Bar’s Special Committee on Lawyer Referral Services issues final report recommending enhanced regulation of lawyers who receive referrals from for-profit referral services

Hello and welcome to this Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the recent recommendation of the Florida Bar’s Special Committee on Lawyer Referral Services. The Special Committee’s report is available on the Florida Bar’s website: www.floridabar.org. The final report was released on July 26, 2012 and will be presented to The Florida Bar Board of Read More

The Florida Bar’s lawyer referral committee votes to recommend that lawyers be banned from participating in combined lawyer and medical (non-lawyer) referral services

Hello and welcome to this JACPA Ethics Alert which will discuss the May 4, 2012 meeting of the Special Committee on Lawyer Referral Services wherein the committee voted, inter alia, to recommend that the Bar rules be revised to prohibit lawyers from participating in combined lawyer/medical (or other non-legal) referral services. As reported in the Read More