Florida Bar Re: Amendment to Rules

OVERTON, Justice.

We have for consideration The Florida Bar’s petition requesting a mandatory continuing legal education requirement in the Integration Rule. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.

This petition represents a further step in the educational requirements for Florida’s legal profession. In 1984, The Florida Bar’s long-range planning committee recommended a mandatory continuing legal education plan to the Board of Governors. In the summer of 1984, a poll, taken at the direction of the Board, indicated that 49.4 percent of The Florida Bar’s members looked favorably on some…