In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar - Rule 1-3.3

Supreme Court of Florida
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No. SC2024-0493
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IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA
BAR – RULE 1-3.3.

July 3, 2024

PER CURIAM.

The Florida Bar has filed a petition proposing an amendment

to Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 1-3.3 (Official Bar Name and

Contact Information). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla.

Const. The Committee previously published the amendment in the

online version of The Florida Bar News on February 12, 2024. We

hereby amend Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 1-3.3(a)

(Designation) to delete language that allows a member of the Bar

who has no e-mail address and no internet services to be excused

from providing a designated e-mail address.

Accordingly, the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar are

amended as reflected in the appendix to this opinion. Deletions are
indicated by struck-through type. The amendment shall become

effective July 8, 2024, at 12:02 a.m.

It is so ordered.

MUÑIZ, C.J., and CANADY, LABARGA, COURIEL, GROSSHANS,
FRANCIS, and SASSO, JJ., concur.

THE FILING OF A MOTION FOR REHEARING SHALL NOT ALTER
THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS AMENDMENT.

Original Proceeding – Florida Rules Regulating The Florida Bar

Roland Sanchez-Medina, Jr., President, Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes,
President-elect, Joshua E. Doyle, Executive Director, and Elizabeth
Clark Tarbert, Division Director, Lawyer Regulation, The Florida
Bar, Tallahassee, Florida,

for Petitioner

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APPENDIX

RULE 1-3.3. OFFICIAL BAR NAME AND REQUIRED
INFORMATION

(a) Designation. Each member of The Florida Bar must
designate an official bar name, mailing address, business telephone
number, and business e-mail address. The official bar name may
not be a fictitious name. If the physical location or street address is
not the principal place of employment, the member must also
provide an address for the principal place of employment. The
Florida Bar may excuse a bar member from the requirement of
providing an e-mail address if the bar member has been excused by
the court from e-service or the bar member demonstrates that the
bar member has no e-mail account and lacks Internet service at the
bar member’s office.

(b) – (d) [No Change]

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