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37 verbatim mandatory provisions from 17-18.
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. • The Chief Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit shall compile a list of attorneys in private practice, designated by county and category of cases and provide the list to the Clerk of Court in each county. § 27.40(3)(a), Fla. • The court shall appoint attorneys in rotating order as their names appear on the registry, unless the court makes a finding of good cause on the record for appointing an attorney out of order. § 27.40(3)(b), Fla. • To be considered for placement on the Court’s Registry, an attorney must be a member in good standing of the Florida Bar and submit a completed application to Court Administration in the county in which the attorney is seeking inclusion. • Applicants must disclose any active Florida Bar complaints or investigations in writing to the Chief Judge. • For purposes of meeting this requirement, the address listed with the Florida Bar shall be the sole criteria. • Attorneys on the capital case registry must maintain an office within fifty (50) miles of the county correctional facility in which the Defendant is incarcerated. 6. • In addition to the qualifications stated above, any attorney requesting to be placed on the Court’s Registry must certify they meet the following category-specific standards: 1. • Must meet the requirements for lead counsel set forth in rule 3.112(f), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure; or b. • Must meet the requirements for co-counsel set forth in rule 3.112(g), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. 2. • Must be a member in good standing with The Florida Bar for no less than three years. b. • Must meet the requirements set forth in rule 3.113, Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. c. • Must be familiar with the practice and procedures of the criminal courts in the Eighteenth Circuit. -- 2 of 5 -- 3 d. • Must be an experienced and active trial practitioner with no fewer than 5 criminal jury trials. 3. • Must be a member in good standing with The Florida Bar for the previous 12 months. b. • Must be familiar with the practice and procedures of the criminal courts in the Eighteenth Circuit. 4. • Must be a member in good standing with The Florida Bar for no less than two years. b. • Must have completed a minimum of 10 hours of CLE devoted to appellate law. c. • Must meet the requirements for appellate counsel set forth in rule 3.112(h), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure for appointment on a capital appeal. 5. • Must be familiar with the practice and procedure of delinquency proceedings. c. • Must be experienced trial practitioner with no fewer than three delinquency dispositions or three state or federal non-jury trials. d. • Must have completed a minimum of 10 hours of CLE devoted to delinquency law or legal advocacy for children within the last 3 years. 6. • Must be familiar with the practice and procedure of guardianship proceedings. b. • Must have represented a party in a guardianship case in the past three years. c. • Must have completed no less than eight hours of a guardianship education class or six hours of credit in one or more Florida Bar CLE guardianship cases. 7. • Must be familiar with the practice and procedures of Marchman Act and Baker Act proceedings. 8. • Must have acted as lead or co-counsel in at least one Jimmy Ryce/Sexually Violent Predator Act commitment trial. 9. • Must be familiar with the practice and procedure of juvenile dependency and termination of parental rights proceedings. b. • Must have represented a party in a dependency case in the past three years. -- 3 of 5 -- 4 c. • Must appear at any shelter hearings that he or she is scheduled to attend by the Clerk of Court for the Circuit Court. • Must have represented a party as lead counsel or secondary counsel in two different appellate cases over the last five years, including the preparation and filing of a brief with the District Court of Appeal or with the Supreme Court of Florida. • Attorneys shall be compensated in accordance with the schedule of fees prescribed by the Florida Statutes and the General Appropriations Act in effect at the time of Attorney’s date of appointment. 2. • Attorneys seeking compensation for extraordinary and unusual effort pursuant to section 27.5304(12), Florida Statutes, must motion the Court for an evidentiary hearing. • The hearing must be conducted by the Chief Judge or his or her single designee for Brevard and Seminole cases. • The notice shall state if the attorney is resigning from all categories to which the attorney is entitled to receive appointments or only some categories to which the attorney is entitled to receive appointments. • The attorney shall complete work on all cases assigned prior to the resignation date. 2. • If an attorney later seeks to be reinstated to the registry, the attorney must file a new application during the open enrollment period to be considered by the Chief Judge. • If a written complaint is received by the Chief Judge or Court Administration regarding a Registry Attorney, a copy of the written complaint shall be immediately forwarded to the attorney to whom the written complaint concerns.
The Chief Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit shall compile a list of attorneys in private practice, designated by county and category of cases and provide the list to the Clerk of Court in each county. § 27.40(3)(a), Fla.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 990ad82c3d42cbf1c59f51f93e5e3223dc1ef62c2444868de6a820691cab869d (150356 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.