TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 17, 2021

The Florida Supreme Court yesterday reaffirmed a decision that bans Florida lawyers from receiving continuing legal education credit for programs that require diversity among panelists, the ABA Journal reports. That includes CLE programs offered by the American Bar Association, which the court said imposes quotas. The court first ruled on the issue in April after a Florida Bar section adopted a speaker panel policy that was modeled on the ABA’s 2017 diversity policy. ABA President Reginald Turner said after the ruling that that group was disappointed in the decision, believing that its CLE practices do not constitute a quota system.