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Florida's Over-Regulation of Attorney Speech

It started with what probably sounded like a good idea at the time: a 2008 effort by the Florida Bar to amend the state's baroquely detailed attorney advertising rules to account for the ways in which attorneys use Web sites. But it went too far.

13 minute read February 27, 2011 at 05:48 PM
By
Joshua King
Florida's Over-Regulation of Attorney Speech

Editor's Note: In the summer of 2009, a group of Florida consumers, outraged over rampant false and deceptive online advertising by attorneys, filed suit to bring an end to these abuses.

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