MIAMI – While the American Civil Liberties Union and other nonprofit legal groups have been declared exempt from a strict proposal for regulating lawyer Web sites, Florida’s largest law firms are starting to band together to protest the regulations, largely on First Amendment grounds.
Facing protests, lawsuits and threats of more lawsuits from lawyers, The Florida Bar has postponed rules that were to take effect July 1. The Florida Supreme Court is allowing lawyers to file comments about the proposal by Aug. 16.
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