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The Florida Supreme Court has adopted a new Bar rule allowing for the interim suspension of attorneys charged with felonies that reflect adversely on their fitness to practice.
Acting on its own motion June 5 in Case No. SC2025-0727, the court adopted new Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 3-5.3 (Interim Suspension), which addresses the grounds for suspension of a lawyer charged with a felony “that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s fitness to practice law.”
“The new rule provides a procedure for notice and an opportunity to respond before the imposition of an interim suspension based on felony charges and explains that the respondent may move to dissolve the interim suspension ‘on a change in the criminal charges or on a disposition of the felony criminal charges.’”
