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Article: Board streamlines ad appeals.
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- Florida Bar News
- Article date:
- March 15, 2002
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The Bar Board of Governors has ratified a streamlined process for handling advertising appeals and reiterated that it wants the authority -- expected to be rarely used -- to directly issue ethics advisory opinions.
The Board Review Committee on Professional Ethics had brought a proposal' to the board at its February 1 meeting that would allow the board to request an opinion from the Professional Ethic's Committee or the BRCPE, which the board could then review and modify.
But board members said they were concerned that their requests could be delayed or stymied and voted to have Bar policies that allowed them' to directly issue a proposed advisory ...