GENERALLY

(a) Appointment of Members; Quorum. The board of governors will appoint a standing committee on grievance mediation and fee arbitration comprised of:

(1) 6 lawyers who are approved as mediators under this chapter;

(2) 3 nonlawyers who are approved as mediators under this chapter;

(3) 6 lawyers who are approved as arbitrators under this chapter; and

(4) 3 nonlawyers who are approved as arbitrators under this chapter. The board of governors will appoint a chair and vice-chair of the committee from the members listed above. A majority of committee members constitutes a quorum. The lawyer members of the committee must be members of The Florida Bar in good standing.

(b) Terms. All members are appointed for 3-year staggered terms consistent with the bar’s fiscal year with one-third of the committee members appointed each year. No committee member may serve for more than 2 consecutive full terms.

(c) Duties. The standing committee administers the program, approves mediators and arbitrators for the program, promulgates necessary standards, forms, and documents, and makes recommendations to the board of governors for changes in the program. Added April 6, 1989 (542 So.2d 975). Amended July 23, 1992, effective Jan. 1, 1993 (605 So.2d 252); March 23, 2000 (763 So.2d 1002); May 20, 2004 (SC03-705), corrected opinion issued July 7, 2004, (875 So.2d 448); December 20, 2007, effective March 1, 2008 (SC06-736), 978 So.2d 91); amended March 3, 2022, effective May 2, 2022 (SC20-1467).