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The Florida Bar News 02/15/2012
- Bills to give the governor at-will JNC appointments move in both chambers
- Bills to give the governor at-will JNC appointments move in both chambersBy Gary BlankenshipSenior Editor A Senate committee has added its imprimatur to increasing the governor’s control over judicial nominating commissions. The Senate Judiciary Committee on January 25 approved SB 1570, which allows the governor to replace his five direct appointments to each of the state’s 26 JNCs at any time for any reason. The four gubernatorial appointments that are made from nominations submitted by The Florida Bar wou. . . ...
- Are judges too young to retire at 70?
- Are judges too young to retire at 70?By Jan PudlowSenior Editor Is 70 the new 60? That’s debatable. But there was unanimous agreement on the Senate Judiciary Committee that age 70 is too young to knock judges off the bench for “constitutional senility.” On January 19, Sen. David Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs, presented Senate Joint Resolution 408 that proposes an amendment to the Florida Constitution to increase the mandatory retirement age of judges and justices from 70 to 75. “This limitation of 70 years . . . ...
- Board gets a look at trust account rule rewrite
- Board gets a look at trust account rule rewrite A rewrite of Bar trust accounting rules, including forms to help lawyers comply with those rules, has been presented to the Bar Board of Governors, which will likely vote on the amendments at its March 23 meeting in Pensacola.The Disciplinary Procedure Committee has been working on the revisions for more than a year and forwarded them to the board during its Tallahassee meeting last month.“The thrust of the rule revisions is to fix responsibility and account-a. . . ...
- House’s budget funds the courts at this year’s levels
- House’s budget funds the courts at this year’s levelsBy Gary BlankenshipSenior Editor Funding for Florida’s courts coming mostly from state general revenues instead of filing fees. The court-related budgets of the clerks of court not being under the direct oversight of the state Legislature. Those features were last in the state budget for the 2008-09 fiscal year and would be again in the “Back to the Future” 2012-13 fiscal plan being proposed in the House of Representatives. The budget also would maintain . . . ...
- Bar seeks to ban police and judges from lawyer ads
- Bar seeks to ban police and judges from lawyer adsBy Gary BlankenshipSenior Editor The Bar Board of Governors has voted to seek to change its advertising rule amendments now pending before the Supreme Court to ban the use of actors portraying authority figures — such as judges and police officers — in lawyer and law firm advertising. The board, at its January 27 Tallahassee meeting, agreed with the Board Review Committee on Professional Ethics to seek the changes in amendments proposed to rules 4-7.3 and 4-. . . ...
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