Legal Opinion
Florida Bar re Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar (Reapportionment)
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided December 10, 1987No. 69805PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
Numerous members of the Florida Bar have petitioned this Court to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar and change the apportionment of the seats on the bar’s board of governors. The board of governors has responded with an alternative proposal for reapportioning the board. We have jurisdiction pursuant to rule 1-12.-1.
The board currently has forty-two members: the president and president-elect of the Florida Bar; the president and president-elect of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD); two bar members who reside outside Florida; two nonlawyers; one bar member from each of the state’s…
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