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.