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2 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2026-22 APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO THE LOCAL PROFESSIONALISM PANEL IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO THE LOCAL PROFESSIONALISM PANEL IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT O R D E R WHEREAS, pursuant to Administrative Order 2024-12, a Local Professionalism Panel (LPP) exists in the First Judicial Circuit; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Code for Resolving Professionalism Referrals (Code), the Chief Judge determines the number of members to serve on the LPP; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Administrative Order 2026-05, the number of members of the LPP, including the Chair(s), shall be no fewer than six and no more than 10; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Code, the Chief Judge appoints the LPP Chair and LPP members, which must include judges (current or senior, trial or appellate) and local attorneys that are in good standing with The Florida Bar and eligible to practice law from diverse areas of practice with varying levels of experience, but must have practiced law at least 5 years; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Code, the Chief Judge or the Chief Judge’s designee must appoint members as necessary to fill LPP vacancies; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Code, LPP members serve staggered 3-year terms. • Each term begins on July 1 and runs through June 30 of the third year; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Code, members of the LPP must undergo training by experienced lawyers involved in The Florida Bar disciplinary process prior to serving on the panels. -- 1 of 3 -- THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority vested in the Chief Judge by article V, section 2(d) of the Florida Constitution, section 43.26, Florida Statutes, and Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.215(b), it is ORDERED as follows: 1.
APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO THE LOCAL PROFESSIONALISM PANEL IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT O R D E R WHEREAS, pursuant to Administrative Order 2024-12, a Local Professionalism Panel (LPP) exists in the First Judicial Circuit; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Code for Resolving Professionalism Referrals (Code), the Chief Judge determines the number of members to serve on the LPP; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Administrative Order 2026-05, the number of members of the LPP, including the Chair(s), shall be no fewer than six and no more than 10; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Code, the Chief Judge appoints the LPP Chair and LPP members, which must include judges (current or senior, trial or appellate) and local attorneys that are in good standing with The Florida Bar and eligible to practice law from diverse areas of practice with varying levels of experience, but must have practiced law at least 5 years;
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 4a9dbd7bd5afad5682fe4282b87aecfa2c971daf94bcff927d29ef946b4a98a4 (188900 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.