Case Name: THE FLORIDA BAR In re AMENDMENT TO THE CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1981-04-23
Citations: 398 So. 2d 442
Docket Number: No. 59117
Parties: THE FLORIDA BAR In re AMENDMENT TO THE CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Judges: SUNDBERG, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, ENGLAND, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 398
Pages: 442–442

Head Matter:
THE FLORIDA BAR In re AMENDMENT TO THE CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
No. 59117.
Supreme Court of Florida.
April 23, 1981.
Leonard H. Gilbert, President of The Florida Bar, Bill Wagner, Chairman, Integration Rules and Bylaws Committee, Tampa, and James P. Hollaway, Deputy Staff Counsel, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This proceeding was initiated by petition of The Florida Bar to amend the Code of Professional- Responsibility. We have jurisdiction under article V, section 15, Florida Constitution.
The Bar proposes that we amend Disciplinary Rule 2-102(C) to conform to recent developments in permissible professional arrangements in law practice. Because it is now possible, under the Bar's ethical guidelines, for a professional association to enter into a partnership for the practice of law, the Bar deems it advisable that the discipli-, nary rule prohibiting a lawyer from holding himself out as having a partnership with another lawyer cover also the conduct of one who holds himself out as a partner of a professional corporation.
We hereby adopt the following amendment to Disciplinary Rule 2-102(C), effective May 15, 1981. The added words are indicated by underscoring.
DR2-102 Professional Notices, Letterheads, Offices, and Law Lists
(C) A lawyer shall not hold himself out as having a partnership with one or more other lawyers or professional corporations unless they are in fact partners.
It is so ordered.
SUNDBERG, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, ENGLAND, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.