In re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar – Chapter 4 (Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2024-0032)

Record US-FL-15 · Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2024-0032

Issued by: Supreme Court of Florida (on the petition of The Florida Bar)
Jurisdiction: Florida (US)
Level · region: Sub-national · North America
Country: United States
Published / adopted: 2024-08-29
In force: 2024-10-28
Language: English
Official identifier: Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2024-0032

Summary

Supreme Court of Florida opinion amending Chapter 4, the Rules of Professional Conduct, of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar on the Bar's petition. It adds generative artificial intelligence to the comments on four rules: competence includes understanding the benefits and risks of technology, including generative AI; lawyers should be aware that generative AI may create risks to the duty of confidentiality; firms' internal policies should consider safeguards for their use of generative AI; and lawyers should consider safeguards when assistants or outside services use it. The amendments also allow testimonials by celebrity clients in lawyer advertising.

Safety topics

accountability & liabilityhuman oversight

Scope

Borderline scope Court-adopted amendments to the conduct rules; AI content is a few comment sentences. Existing scope_note kept.

Status notes

The Florida Bar's Board of Governors approved the proposed amendments and published them for comment in The Florida Bar News; no comments were received. The Court adopted them except the proposal to delete 'zeal' and 'zealous' from the Preamble and the comment to rule 4-1.3, and the proposed amendments to rule 4-8.6 on suspended individuals and authorized business entities. The generative-AI language is in the Comments to rules 4-1.1, 4-1.6, 4-5.1 and 4-5.3, not in the text of the rules. The amendments took effect on 28 Oct 2024; a motion for rehearing would not alter that date.

Sources

Open the official source https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2439771/opinion/Opinion_SC2024-0032.pdf

Secondary source: https://assets.alm.com/b3/ef/635b69ee4a80aa7afc28763aa2ba/opinion-disposition-chapter-4.pdf

Local copy

Partial (secondary source only). The official source could not be downloaded (The site's robots.txt does not allow automated downloads of this page); only the secondary source was saved. Last attempt 2026-10-17 23:09:49 UTC

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/US-FL-15/2026-10-14/secondary.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-14 16:39:13 UTC

SHA-256 0d839029d7c87efedac99d1ea526bdbb8a93a99c67909f9875c91c9e721aef9e

Verification

Not confirmed on an official page; the record rests on secondary sources. Check it before citing. checked 2026-10-18 · search-confirmed

CAUTION: no official source confirms the title, date and status; the record rests on secondary sources. Recheck of 18 Oct 2026: the Court's own PDF on supremecourt.flcourts.gov still could not be stored: on 14, 16 and 17 Oct 2026 the archiver was refused by the robots.txt of the Florida courts' download host. Re-read the copy of the opinion PDF hosted by ALM (assets.alm.com, publisher of Law.com), stored on 14 Oct 2026 and found unchanged on 17 Oct 2026 (Last-Modified 13 Apr 2026), which carries the Court's caption, case number, date, per curiam text, the vote and the appendix with the amended rules; title, date, status, the summary and the notes rest on this third-party copy. Whether the comments have been amended since October 2024 could not be checked against the current Rules Regulating The Florida Bar (floridabar.org refuses automated requests).

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 9 field(s) supported, fixes applied to scope_note.

History

2026-10-18scope_note: Court-adopted amendments to the professional conduct rules for lawyers, mostly u → Court-adopted amendments to the conduct rules; AI content is a few comment sente — pipeline run 2026-10-18-recheck-north-america-2 (recheck), candidate US-FL-152026-10-18-recheck-north-america-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-14Added to the register — found in pipeline run 2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl, candidate C016 (US-FL/executive)2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Florida Bar Ethics Opinion 24-1 on generative AI Florida (US) · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Supreme Court of Florida (on the petition of The Florida Bar). In re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar – Chapter 4 (Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2024-0032) [Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2024-0032]. 2024-08-29. https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2439771/opinion/Opinion_SC2024-0032.pdf. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-18 (level C). Local copy archive/US-FL-15/2026-10-14/secondary.pdf retrieved 2026-10-14 16:39:13 UTC, SHA-256 0d839029d7c87efedac99d1ea526bdbb8a93a99c67909f9875c91c9e721aef9e. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record US-FL-15.

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