In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar - Rule 1-3.3
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Opinion
Supreme Court of Florida ____________
No. SC2024-0493 ____________
IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR – RULE 1-3.3.
July 3, 2024
PER CURIAM.
The Florida Bar has filed a petition proposing an amendment
to Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 1-3.3 (Official Bar Name and
Contact Information). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla.
Const. The Committee previously published the amendment in the
online version of The Florida Bar News on February 12, 2024. We
hereby amend Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 1-3.3(a)
(Designation) to delete language that allows a member of the Bar
who has no e-mail address and no internet services to be excused
from providing a designated e-mail address.
Accordingly, the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar are
amended as reflected in the appendix to this opinion. Deletions are indicated by struck-through type. The amendment shall become
effective July 8, 2024, at 12:02 a.m.
It is so ordered.
MUÑIZ, C.J., and CANADY, LABARGA, COURIEL, GROSSHANS, FRANCIS, and SASSO, JJ., concur.
THE FILING OF A MOTION FOR REHEARING SHALL NOT ALTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS AMENDMENT.
Original Proceeding – Florida Rules Regulating The Florida Bar
Roland Sanchez-Medina, Jr., President, Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes, President-elect, Joshua E. Doyle, Executive Director, and Elizabeth Clark Tarbert, Division Director, Lawyer Regulation, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida,
for Petitioner
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RULE 1-3.3. OFFICIAL BAR NAME AND REQUIRED INFORMATION
(a) Designation. Each member of The Florida Bar must designate an official bar name, mailing address, business telephone number, and business e-mail address. The official bar name may not be a fictitious name. If the physical location or street address is not the principal place of employment, the member must also provide an address for the principal place of employment. The Florida Bar may excuse a bar member from the requirement of providing an e-mail address if the bar member has been excused by the court from e-service or the bar member demonstrates that the bar member has no e-mail account and lacks Internet service at the bar member’s office.
(b) – (d) [No Change]
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