§ Rule 19-1.2 Responsibility and Authority

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Rule 19-1.2. Responsibility and Authority

    The center's responsibilities and authority shall be to:

    (a) consider efforts by lawyers and judges to improve the administration of justice;

    (b) examine ways of educating the public about the system of justice;

    (c) monitor and coordinate Florida's professionalism efforts in such institutional settings as its bar, courts, law schools, and law firms;

    (d) monitor professionalism efforts in jurisdictions outside Florida;

    (e) provide guidance and support to the continuing legal education department in its implementation and execution of the continuing legal education professionalism requirement;

    (f) help implement a professionalism component of the basic skills course requirement;

    (g) make recommendations to the supreme court and The Florida Bar concerning additional means by which professionalism can be enhanced;

    (h) receive and administer gifts and grants; and

    (i) assist in the implementation of the current professionalism enhancement program as it relates to professionalism issues.