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16 verbatim mandatory provisions from 14-30.
Eighteenth 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. • Commission on Professionalism, dated June 11, 1998, mandating the establishment of a local Professionalism Committee in each judicial circuit; and WHEREAS, the Chief Judge, in and for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit shall serve as the Chair of the Eighteenth Circuit Professional Committee; and WHEREAS, in the interest of promoting professionalism, a Professionalism Committee allows the bench and the Bar to coordinate professional activities for lawyers and judges in furtherance of and in an effort to maintain the highest standards of professionalism in the Eighteenth Circuit; and WHEREAS, on June 6, 2013, the Florida Supreme Court entered Administrative Order No.: • The Panel shall be an entity independent of the Florida Bar, established at the local level for the purpose of resolving complaints of alleged unprofessional conduct amongst members of the Bar practicing in that circuit. • Brevard and Seminole county shall each establish a Panel which shall operate under the guidance and supervision of the Eighteenth Circuit Chief Judge and the Eighteenth Circuit Professionalism Committee. 3. • Each Panel shall consist of no less than seven (7) members of the Florida Bar in good standing in each of their respective counties, with one Panel member designated as the Panel Chair, as selected by the Chief Judge of the Circuit. 4. • One member of each Panel shall serve as the Panel liaison and be responsible for communicating between the Chief Judge and the Circuit Professionalism Committee Chair, the Panel Chair and the Panel members. • The liaison shall be responsible for coordinating meetings and distributing information. • All Panel members shall be selected by the Chief Judge and/or Circuit Professionalism Chair. 6. • Initially, all members of the Panel, other than the Panel Chair, shall be appointed to serve a one-year renewable term. • The Panel Chair shall be appointed to serve a two-year renewable term. • Attorneys are encouraged, prior to referring conduct to the Panel, to discuss the situation with the other attorney involved in an effort to reach an amicable resolution consistent with the above-referenced professionalism standards and guidelines. b. • A quorum for purposes of attorney review shall be comprised of at least three (3) members of the Panel who are in good standing with the Florida Bar plus the Panel Chair. • The Panel must include at least one member who practices within the same field of specialty as the individual who is the subject of the complaint. • All complaints must be made in writing and submitted to the Panel via the Chief Judge of the Circuit or the Professionalism Committee Chair. b. • In the event the complaint is not resolved by an informal telephone call, and a meeting (formal or informal) is required, the lawyer who is subject of the complaint will be furnished with a copy of the complaint and provided an opportunity to submit a written response. d. • Information disclosed during the Panel process is confidential and may not be disclosed to anyone except other Panel members, the referring lawyer, or the subject lawyers, and b. • Your Name: _________________________________________________________________ Bar No.: _________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Telephone: _________________________________________________________________ Fax: _________________________________________________________________ Check this box if you wish to discuss this issue with the Panel Chair of the Local Professionalism Panel prior to making a written complaint.
Commission on Professionalism, dated June 11, 1998, mandating the establishment of a local Professionalism Committee in each judicial circuit; and WHEREAS, the Chief Judge, in and for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit shall serve as the Chair of the Eighteenth Circuit Professional Committee; and WHEREAS, in the interest of promoting professionalism, a Professionalism Committee allows the bench and the Bar to coordinate professional activities for lawyers and judges in furtherance of and in an effort to maintain the highest standards of professionalism in the Eighteenth Circuit; and WHEREAS, on June 6, 2013, the Florida Supreme Court entered Administrative Order No.:
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 5b14c0b2d617560adf2fac276360f05a1662b8c70d81c06241798dddb8ffd2dd (176086 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.