On April 1, no joke, it was reported that the Florida Bar sent to the Florida Supreme Court a proposed amendment to Bar Rule 4-7.1 which would allow lawyers to communicate (read: advertise) to former clients and other lawyers without meeting the usual advertising regulations. Previously, the senior editor of the Florida Bar News opined that lawyers “aren’t concerned” about that type of regulation (“Attorneys Not Very Concerned About Lawyer-to-Lawyer Ads”).
The Court recently tossed out a Bar proposal to regulate websites; let’s see how this lawyer advertising de-regulation effort fares…