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Hello everyone, and welcome to this Ethics Alert, which will discuss the Florida Supreme Court’s recent opinion adopting uniform statewide practice rules addressing lawyer and pro se litigant’s use of artificial intelligence in legal proceedings.  The Court’s opinion is In Re: Amendments to Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration Rule 2.515, No. SC2026-0673, and the opinion…

Hello everyone, and welcome to this Ethics Alert, which will discuss ABA Formal Opinion 522, which provides guidance on a lawyer’s duty to disclose grounds for judicial disqualification.  ABA Formal Opinion 522 is here:  Formal Opinion 522 The opinion states that a lawyer’s role as an officer of the court requires the disclosure of information related to grounds for judicial disqualification to…

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert, which will discuss recent ABA Formal Opinion 516, which addresses the “material adverse effects” which prevent permissive withdrawal under Model Rule 1.16(b)(1).  Formal Opinion 516 is here: Click to access aba-formal-opinion-516.pdf According to the ABA opinion summary: ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.16(b)(1) permits a lawyer to…

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert, which will discuss Florida Supreme Court Rule 20-3.1 amendment which creates a work experience option to become a Florida Registered Paralegal (FRP) with “an attestation of paralegal work experience from an employing or supervising attorney.”  The amendments were approved by the Court in May 2024 in In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida…

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert update, which will discuss recent Florida Supreme Court opinion which rejected a Bar proposal to remove “Z words” – “zeal,” “zealous,” and “zealously,” from the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.  The opinion, In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, SC2024-0032, was published on August 29, 2024, and is here:  SC2024-0032 Opinion…

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert, which will discuss recent Texas Supreme Court opinion that permits licensed non-lawyer paraprofessionals to provide limited legal services to low-income individuals in certain areas of the law.  The opinion was published on August 6, 2024, and is here:  https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1458990/249050.pdf.    The new rules will allow licensed…

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss recent ABA Formal Opinion 511, which discusses and provides information and guidance regarding lawyers providing client information on a listserv.  ABA Formal Opinion 511 is here:  Formal Opinion 511 (americanbar.org) According to the lengthy ABA opinion: (ABA Model) Rule 1.6, Confidentiality, prohibits a lawyer from posting…

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent Massachusetts Board of Overseers Order imposing a reprimand on a lawyer who sent an email to another lawyer to evade a judge’s and accidentally copied opposing counsel.  The case is Massachusetts Bar Counsel v. Cosentino, Public Reprimand No. 2024-1.  The Board Report and Order are here:…