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Article: Views from a former member of a grievance committee: hot buttons for the estate planning, probate, and trust attorney.(Florida)
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- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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I have had the great opportunity to serve on three grievance committees for a total of nine years. I would like to say my participation on the committee has been purely altruistic, but experience has taught me I am not often "purely altruistic." When I opened my own practice in 1990, I realized that I needed to understand how The Florida Bar ethics rules (1) affected my practice. I have had the good fortune to interact with attorneys in many different areas of practice and public members (2) from all walks of life. I have had the opportunity to review situations where I think to myself in indignation, "I can't believe he or she did that," and those that made me think, "I ...