Legal Opinion
Florida Bar: Petition to Amend the Rules
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided December 21, 1990No. 74987PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OVERTON, Justice.
The Florida Bar has petitioned the Court to amend the rules regulating attorney advertising. Notice of the proposed amendments was published in The Florida Bar News. The Court has received responses both in support and in opposition to the proposed changes. We approve, as modified, the Bar’s proposals. We have changed the requirement that only a Florida Bar member be the spokesperson for the firm on television, eliminated the television disclosure, and modified the total prohibition of targeted mail advertising to personal injury and wrongful death claimants. The following is…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Board of Trustees of State Univ. of NY v. FoxSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Bates v. State Bar of ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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- Florida Bar v. Went for It, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Harrell v. the Florida BarCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2010
- Jacobs v. the Florida BarCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
- Jacobs v. Florida BarCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
- G. Stewart McHenry Went for It, Inc., a Florida Corporation, John T. Blakely v. The Florida Bar, Susan v. BloemendaalCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
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