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Confusion Over Regulation of Lawyers' Sites In Florida

By Jordana Mishory and Harris Meyer
December 28, 2006

To Google or not to Google is the dilemma plaguing the Florida Bar in its protracted debate over how to regulate law firm Internet sites.

Because the Bar Board of Governors deadlocked on proposed new Web site rules at its monthly meeting on Dec. 8 in Key Biscayne, law firm sites are completely unregulated as of Jan. 1. The Board tabled its discussion until this month.

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