Florida Bar Re Amendments to Rules Regulating the Florida Bar

The Florida Bar petitions this Court to amend rule 10-7.1 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 15 of the Florida Constitution.

The amendment submitted by The Florida Bar would allow this Court to order an unlicensed practitioner to pay restitution and costs to a “complainant or other person” in cases where The Florida Bar is requesting civil injunctive relief. On January 1, 1996, the Bar published in The Florida Bar News notice of the filing of the petition to amend the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, as well as the full text of the…