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| The Florida Supreme Court changes the effective date for the website rule amendments to July 1, 2010 . . . (more) 2/8/10 | The Florida Supreme Court amends the Basic Skills requirement to allow online course attendance, except for the Practicing with Professionalism component . . . (more) 2/8/10 | |
| The Florida Supreme Court reprimands a judge for ethical violations during the judge's election campaign . . . (more) 2/5/10 | A judge who received favorable loan rates from a lender affiliated with one of the parties is disqualified from presiding over the case . . . (more) 2/5/10 | |
| A City's eventual production of meeting minutes months after they were requested did not moot the issue of the City's violation of public records law . . . (more) 1/25/10 | It would be unethical for a judge to rent a room in the judge's home to a non-related person on community control . . . (more) 1/25/10 | |
| The Florida Supreme Court vacates a death sentence due to prosecutorial misconduct . . . (more) 1/20/10 | The First DCA interprets a contingent fee contract in favor of the clients in a breach of contract action against their former lawyer . . . (more) 1/20/10 | |
| A criminal conviction is reversed because the trial judge departed from the position of neutrality through comments to a witness . . . (more) 1/17109 | A trial court committed reversible error in a criminal case by reading testimony back to the jury without giving defense counsel notice or an opportunity to participate . . . (more) 1/17/10 | |
| The conflict rule governing concurrent representation of clients (RPC 4-1.7) does not permit analysis of whether the conflict is "material" . . . (more) 1/14/10 | A trial court erred by including certain "overhead" items as taxable costs. . . (more) 1/14/10 | |
| The eminent domain law does not provide for recovery of attorney's fees related to a threatened condemnation action that was not filed or settled . . . (more) 1/11/10 | A trial court erred by ordering the Justice Administrative Commission to pay the fees of a mother's court-appointed counsel in a termination of parental rights proceeding . . . (more) 1/11/10 | |
| The Florida Supreme Court rejects a referee's recommendation of a lesser sanction and suspends a lawyer for 1 year for violations relating to candor and conflict of interest . . . (more) 1/9/10 | The Florida Supreme Court restricts conditional admission to bar applicants who will live and work in Florida during the conditional period . . . (more) 12/15/09 | |
| The Florida Supreme Court dramatically changes the rules governing lawyers' websites . . . (more) 11/20/09 | The Florida Supreme Court approves multiple rule changes covering fees, conflicts, candor to the court, advertising, trust accounting, and more . . . (more) 11/20/09 | |
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