Posted on 07/21/2015 1:28:33 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
And you thought Florida already had too many lawyers?
A proposal to let lawyers from other states practice in the Sunshine State without taking the Florida Bar exam has ignited a firestorm in Florida's already crowded legal community.
"It's a ridiculous proposal," John Fitzgibbons, a Tampa attorney and former federal prosecutor, said Monday. "Every lawyer in a cold-weather climate who has a condo in Florida will join the Florida Bar and make that condo his or her Florida office."
In a survey published last year, nearly half of the Florida Bar members who responded cited "too many lawyers" as the most serious problem facing the legal profession today. Florida already has 101,000 licensed attorneys, with hundreds more joining the ranks each year.
The first inkling many lawyers had that the Bar was considering so-called "reciprocity" with other states came last week in a Florida Bar Journal story about the organization's new president, Miami attorney Ramón Abadin, and the speech he gave at his June 26 swearing-in ceremony.
In what the story described as an "eye-opening call to action," Abadin said Florida lawyers "can't operate today under rules from a different era" and suggested changing, among other things, rules that now restrict reciprocity. . .
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Boy the 1%’ers do squeal when their version of the H1B visa/illegal construction worker is landing on their noggins, don’t they?
Oh, come on - I thought that everyone knew that what the United States REALLY needs is more lawyers.
sounds like them N.Y. lawyers want to get in on the Florida legal money bonanza.
Good first step. Next, let paralegals practice and then laymen. Most law is boilerplate and repeatable over and over again. An experienced layman is as good as a lawyer, particularly in the least complicated areas of law practice - RE transactions, evictions, small claims, etc. If you need a specialist, then hire and pay one. We shouldn’t be forced to use butchers to cut meat and the same thing goes for attorneys. (I like my attorneys BTW)
It’s a conspiracy theory I can sink my teeth into.
First, we get them (the lawyers) all in one place...........
(Sarcasm.)
I don’t mind beating up on the 1%’ers but, at least today, the vast majority of people with law degrees are finding out that their degrees carry as much weight as those from the “University of Phoenix” and they are lucky to get a job that even pays anything - as most entry-level jobs are as unpaid interns.
Makes me cry. LOL.
Allowing out of state lawyers to practice in Fl should raise the collective intelligence of the Fl Bar by at least 1.5 standard deviations.
- Surgeon
- Airline Pilot
- Electrician
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Professions that require "McTraining":
- Actor
- Journalist
- Lawyer
I think in mexifornia, illegal (i.e. criminals) can be lawyers.
Since both Kali and New York allow illegal aliens to practice law, why should Americans be held to any standards?
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