Florida Bar floated an off-kilter proposal to drop an oath from complaints about lawyers, but avoided the real problem



It's hard to tell from this Roadmap, but the Attorney Consumer Assistance Program is really the Florida Bar, an arm of the Florida Supreme Court that screens and investigates complaints against lawyers and, if charges are deemed necessary, serves as the prosecutor in a trial before a referee. The Bar's Board of Governors sends recommendations to the final arbiter of lawyer discipline, the Florida Supreme Court. Photo: The Florida Bar

By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org

When longtime attorney Robert Kerrigan set out to file his first ever misconduct report against another lawyer, he hit a snag that he believes artificially limits the number of complaints the Florida Bar investigates.

He resolved to do something about it. But before Kerrigan could formulate a proposal for change, and without his knowledge, a Florida Bar committee grabbed one of his emails to Bar staff complaining about the problem and repurposed it into an unworkable “proposal,” then unanimously shot it down.




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