By Admin | Published October 2, 2015 | Posted in 2013 Florida comprehensive advertising rule revisions, Florida 2013 advertising rules federal lawsuit, Florida 2013 comprehensive lawyer advertising rules, Florida Lawyer advertising rules, Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier, Lawyer advertising, Lawyer advertising specialties and certification, Lawyer ethics, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, Lawyer websites | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, Bar ethics rules, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar Advertising Rules, joseph corsmeier, lawyer advertising, Lawyer advertising rules, lawyer advertising specialties and certification | 2 Comments
Federal District Judge enjoins The Florida Bar from enforcing rule prohibiting truthful claims of expertise
Hello and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the September 30, 2015 order and injunction issued by a U.S. Northern District of Florida Judge finding The Florida Bar’s rule prohibiting truthful claims of expertise without certification unconstitutional and enjoining their enforcement. The injunction order is in the federal case of Searcy Read More
Read MoreFlorida Supreme Court adopts Bar Rules defining retainer, flat fee and advance fees and clarifying deposits of fees
By Admin | Published September 28, 2015 | Posted in Excessive fee, Florida lawyer trust accounts, joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier, Lawyer escrow accounts, Lawyer ethics, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, lawyer excessive fee, Lawyer nonrefundable fees, Lawyer trust accounts, Lawyer unreasonable fee | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, Bar ethics rules, corsmeier, Florida Bar, joseph corsmeier, lawyer nonrefundable fees, lawyer trust accounts, nonrefundable fees, trust accounts | Leave a comment
Hello and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent opinion of the Supreme Court of Florida which adopted Bar Rules which define retainer, flat fee and advance fees and clarifying deposit of fees. The opinion is In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar 4-1.5—Fees and Costs for Legal Services, Read More
Read MoreFlorida Supreme Court issues opinion stating that lawyers should be prohibited from accepting referrals from non-lawyer owned referral services
By Admin | Published September 25, 2015 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, Florida Lawyer Referral Services, joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier, Lawyer ethics, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, Lawyer Referral Services | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, Bar ethics rules, corsmeier, Florida Bar, joseph corsmeier | Leave a comment
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
Read MoreFlorida Bar Board of Governors finds that unrequested texts to prospective clients on specific matters are not prohibited solicitations
By Admin | Published August 20, 2015 | Posted in 2013 Florida comprehensive advertising rule revisions, Advertising and solicitation with text messages, Florida Lawyer Advertising opinions, Florida Lawyer advertising rules, Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier, Lawyer advertising, Lawyer Advertising opinion, Lawyer ethics, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, Lawyer text messages- solicitation | Tagged Tags: Attorney advertising rules, Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar Advertising Rules, Lawyer advertising rules, Lawyer text messages - solicitation | 1 Comment
Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent and somewhat surprising decision of the Florida Bar’s Board of Governors to reverse Statewide Advertising Committee’s opinion that texts to prospective clients on specific matters would be solicitations in violation of the Bar rules. As I previously reported in the June Read More
Read MoreFlorida Bar’s Board of Governors approves increase in CLE hours and revision to the comment to Rule 4-1.1 to require technology competence
By Admin | Published July 31, 2015 | Posted in joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier, Lawyer ethics, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, Lawyer lack of competence, Lawyer technology competence | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar, joseph corsmeier, Lawyer competence | Leave a comment
Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent approval by The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors of amendments to the rules related to technology and increasing the required CLE from 30 to 33 hours, with 3 hours of technology. The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors (BOG) met on July Read More
Read MoreFlorida Bar ethics committee approves ethics opinion providing guidance on removal of information from social media pages
By Admin | Published July 3, 2015 | Posted in Florida Bar proposed ethics opinion removal of information from social media, Florida Ethics Opinion 14-1 lawyer and client social media and Facebook pages, Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier, Lawyer advising client to clean up social media page, Lawyer ethics, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, Lawyers and social media | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, Bar ethics rules, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar Ethics Opinion 14-1 client social media pages, Florida Bar Ethics Opinions, joseph corsmeier, Lawyers ethics and client social media and Facebook pages | Leave a comment
Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent final approval of Florida Bar ethics proposed advisory opinion 14-1 by the Bar’s Professional Ethics Committee. The proposed ethics opinion states, with caveats, that lawyers may advise clients to “clean up” social media pages (including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.) in anticipation Read More
Read MoreFlorida Supreme Court opinion makes significant revisions to Florida Bar Rules on trust, confidentiality, and reinstatement procedures
By Admin | Published June 12, 2015 | Posted in commingling, Confidentiality, Diversion, Inadvertent disclosure of Confidential Documents, joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier, lawyer confidentiality, Lawyer diversion, Lawyer ethics, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, Lawyer reinstatement, Lawyer trust accounts, Reinstatement | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, attorney/client confidentiality, Bar ethics rules, confidentiality, corsmeier, Florida Bar, joseph corsmeier, lawyer trust accounts, trust accounts | Leave a comment
Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent opinion of the Supreme Court of Florida implementing, inter alia, significant revisions to the trust account, confidentiality, diversion, and reinstatement rules. The opinion is In Re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar (Biennial Petition), No. SC14-2088 (June 11, 2015) and Read More
Read MoreFlorida Bar Statewide Advertising Committee finds that texts to prospective clients on specific matters are prohibited solicitations
By Admin | Published June 4, 2015 | Posted in 2013 Florida comprehensive advertising rule revisions, Advertising and solicitation with text messages, Communication with clients, Florida 2013 comprehensive lawyer advertising rules, Florida Lawyer Advertising opinions, Florida Lawyer advertising rules, Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier, Lawyer advertising, Lawyer Advertising opinion, Lawyer ethics, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, Lawyer ethics opinions | Tagged Tags: Attorney advertising rules, Attorney Ethics, communication with client, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar Advertising Rules, joseph corsmeier, lawyer advertising, Lawyer advertising rules | Leave a comment
Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent decision of the Florida Bar’s Statewide Advertising Committee to reject a plan by a law firm to obtain cell telephone numbers and send texts to prospective clients on specific matters since the text messages would be solicitations in violation of the Bar Read More
Read MoreU.S. Supreme Court opinion finds that there is no automatic antitrust immunity for state professional licensing boards
By Admin | Published March 17, 2015 | Posted in joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier | Tagged Tags: corsmeier, Florida Bar, joseph corsmeier | 4 Comments
Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the recent interesting U.S. Supreme Court opinion which found that there is no automatic antitrust immunity for professional licensing boards. The case is North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission, No. 13–534. (USSC February 25, 2015) and the opinion Read More
Read MoreFlorida Bar will not appeal Federal judge’s order enjoining enforcement of past results rule as applied by Bar guidelines
By Admin | Published February 25, 2015 | Posted in 2013 Florida comprehensive advertising rule revisions, Florida 2013 advertising rules federal lawsuit, Florida 2013 comprehensive lawyer advertising rules, Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Joseph Corsmeier, Lawyer advertising, Lawyer advertising past results, Lawyer ethics, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Tagged Tags: Attorney advertising rules, Attorney Ethics, Bar ethics rules, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar Advertising Rules, joseph corsmeier, lawyer advertising, Lawyer advertising rules | Leave a comment
Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert with an update on the December 8, 2014 Federal Judge’s opinion which enjoined The Florida Bar from enforcing its guidelines regarding past results in attorney advertising in indoor and outdoor display, television and radio media as a violation of the First Amendment. The order/injunction is in the Read More
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