In Re AMENDMENTS TO RULE REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR 10-9.1

The Court, on its own motion, amends Rule 10-9.1 (Procedures for Issuance of Advisory Opinions on the Unlicensed Practice of Law) of the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar (Bar Rules). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.

In our opinion in The Florida Bar Re: Advisory Opinion —Scharrer v. Fundamental Administrative Services, No. SC14-1730, 176 So.3d 1273, 2015 WL 6019364 (Fla. Oct. 15, 2015), we clarified that the decision in Goldberg v. Merrill Lynch Credit Corp., 35 So.3d 905 (Fla.2010), requires that a civil complaint alleging a cause of action for damages based on the…