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398 So. 2d 442

Florida Bar

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided April 23, 1981

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1981-04-23

Decided 1981-04-23

PER CURIAM.

¶1This 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.

¶2The 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.

¶3We 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.

¶4It is so ordered.

SUNDBERG, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, ENGLAND, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.
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