How do we maintain and amplify civility so that the respect and integrity of the justice system is preserved? Such is the question explored in the Bar’s webinar, “Perspectives on Professionalism from Your Office to Tallahassee.”

Florida Supreme Court Justice Meredith Sasso opens the panel discussion by commenting on recent, unsuccessful efforts to remove two words from the preamble to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar: “zeal” and “zealous.”

“I think there was a sense in the Bar that those words were being weaponized and were being used to shield otherwise unprofessional conduct. A lawyer could say, ‘I’m just being zealous, that’s why I’m acting like a jerk right now in a hearing,’” said Sasso.

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