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Board Disciplinary Review Committee

The Disciplinary Review Committee oversees the prosecution and appeals for disciplinary violations by Florida lawyers, recommends policy on lawyer regulation and discipline matters, and reviews and makes recommendations on disciplinary actions that require Board of Governors’ review or for which a board member requests discussion. The committee:

  • reviews and makes recommendations to the board concerning disciplinary actions at all stages of the lawyer regulation process;
  • reviews each report of referee issued as a result of a disciplinary hearing before review and final determination by the Supreme Court of Florida;
  • makes recommendations to the board on whether to appeal to the Supreme Court of Florida the referee’s factual findings, conclusions of law, and recommendations of discipline;
  • is involved in reviewing pretrial disciplinary matters under procedures set forth in Chapter 3, Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, including matters pending before the local grievance committees (composed of lawyers and public members in the respondent’s judicial circuit who determine whether there is probable cause that the respondent committed a disciplinary violation warranting discipline). Each grievance committee has a Board of Governors member from that circuit assigned to serve as its designated reviewer, who may refer grievance committee decisions to the Disciplinary Review Committee for review, which include grievance committee probable cause findings, reports of minor misconduct, and other actions;
  • reviews grievance committee requests to defer cases, proposed consent judgments to resolve disciplinary complaints prior to hearing, requests for payment plans for costs, Clients’ Security Fund claims, and other matters within the committee’s authority and purview.

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