Florida’s Local Professionalism Panels have filed their first full cycle of mandatory, semi-annual reports since the Supreme Court issued In Re: Code for Resolving Professionalism Referrals last summer.

Without naming respondents, the December 2023-June 2024 reports cite behavior that ranged from being rude to a judicial assistant and soliciting clients at a local jail, to a lawyer with suspected “health and wellbeing” issues who exhibited “confusion regarding matters and cases pending before the Court, to include which party the lawyer represented.”

The latter was referred for Bar discipline, but nearly all cases were resolved informally, including one in which a lawyer self-reported for missing a hearing that resulted in a dismissal.