The Florida Supreme Court has amended Bar rules to permit not-for-profit legal service providers to organize as a corporation and to permit nonlawyers to serve on the boards of directors of not-for-profit legal service providers.

The court, on its own motion, amended Rule 4-5.4 (Professional Independence of a Lawyer) June 2 in Case No. SC22-607, as it indicated it would do earlier this year.

That amendment was put forth by the court’s Special Committee to Improve the Delivery of Legal Services in its final report recommending a host of changes to Bar rules in an effort to facilitate greater access to legal services in Florida.