Required meeting for Local Professionalism Panel chairs set for November 18
The Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Professionalism will host the first required meeting for all 20 of Florida’s circuit courts’ Local Professionalism Panel “LPP” chairs on November 18.
The mandatory meeting is being held pursuant to the Florida Supreme Court’s 2023 opinion, In Re: Code for Resolving Professionalism Referrals, 367 So.3d 1184 (Fla. 2023). Register now here.
In May 2021, LPP Working Group Chair Kara Rockenbach said The Florida Bar created the Special Committee for the Review of Professionalism in Florida.
“Our special committee’s charge was to review the state of professionalism among Florida lawyers and develop recommendations for the court and The Florida Bar on several areas to enhance professionalism,” Rockenbach said. “One of those areas was the enforcement of Florida’s professionalism standards through the use of LPPs.”
In replacing the 2013 code with a new Professionalism Code, the Supreme Court established “Required Meetings” every other year for the 20 LPP chairs, or the member designated by each chair.
At the November 18, 8:30 a.m. to noon Zoom meeting, the LPP chairs will:
- Review the 2023 code and make any recommendations for change to the Florida Supreme Court
- Review the forms used by the circuits to maintain uniformity
- Review the procedures used by the circuits to maintain uniformity
“With the Florida Supreme Court’s direction that The Florida Bar will organize these meetings, The Florida Bar’s SCOP was the logical committee to plan the meeting which will consist of workshops and guidance for the LPP chairs,” Rockenbach said.
Register for the meeting here.
