Navigation Five years after Bar launched Florida Free Legal Answers, the numbers speak for themselves. More than 1,000 volunteer attorneys in Florida have answered more than 18,000 civil legal questions submitted by more than 16,000 indigent and low-income citizens since May 1, 2017. “Wonderful news,” says Gunster managing shareholder Bill Schifino, who guided the project to […]
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The Mindful Lawyer: Being Present for Your Experience
In today’s column we are going to reverse engineer a popular mindfulness practice known as Focused Attention. Doing so will help clarify what is meant by being present, a term familiar to many that can come across as too vague to be helpful. Afterall, what does it mean to be present? Aren’t we always present? […]
Bar’s Grievance Mediation and Fee Arbitration Program seeks volunteers
The Florida Bar’s Grievance Mediation and Fee Arbitration Program is seeking new volunteers to serve in the program. Established in 2004, the program is governed by Chapter 14 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar and offers attorneys and former clients the means by which to resolve their fee disputes outside of the civil court […]
Proposed amendments to Rule 2.420(d)(1)(B)(xv) (Public Access to and Protection of Judicial Branch Records)
Proposed amendments to Rule 2.420(d)(1)(B)(xv) (Public Access to and Protection of Judicial Branch Records)
Proposed new Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administrations 2.533 (Oaths and Affirmations in Court)
Proposed new Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administrations 2.533 (Oaths and Affirmations in Court)