Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar-Chapter 17

The Florida Bar has filed a petition to amend Chapter 17 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar. Notice of the filing of this petition and a request for comments was published in The Florida Bar News. No comments have been filed with the Court, and the Bar states in its petition that it “has received no adverse comment or objection from any individual or group in response to its official notice of this filing and the amendments published herein.”

The proposed amendments are as follows:(1)Amendment to Rule 17-1.2: This proposed amendment clarifies the definition of “authorized house counsel”…