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30 verbatim requirements from 6th Circuit Administrative Order 2025-017.
Sixth Judicial Circuit (Pinellas/Pasco). Administrative orders change without notice; the court's own order controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• The registry is provided to the Clerk of the Circuit Court who must maintain the registry and provide to the Court the name of the next attorney for appointment. • An attorney must be on the Sixth Judicial Circuit Registry to receive a court appointment to represent a litigant who is entitled to court- appointed counsel.1 To be included on the Registry, an attorney must apply during an open or special solicitation. • To apply, the attorney must certify that they meet the qualifications and standards set by law, in this Administrative Order, and must fully complete the applicable Sixth Judicial Circuit application form. • Attorneys serving on one of those registries must meet any standards or other requirements established by the entity that creates the registry. • An attorney who resigns from the Registry must also notify the Chief Judge. • An attorney appointed for a proceeding under Chapter 744, Florida Statutes, may not petition the State for fees if the Court determines that the Ward is solvent. • Attorneys serving on a Dependency Attorney for Parent list must appear at any shelter hearings that they are scheduled to attend by the Court or the Clerk of the Circuit Court. • An attorney who does not appear for a shelter or any other hearing as scheduled may not receive appointments or may be removed from the list. • Each attorney serving in either county must be willing to accept a case in the other county should an attorney be unable to handle the case due to workload conflict. • Each attorney serving in Pinellas County must agree to accept up to three cases in Pasco County per contract period if the attorneys serving in Pasco County are unable to handle a case due to ethical or workload conflict. • Each attorney serving in West Pasco County must agree to accept up to three cases in East Pasco County per contract period if the attorneys • An attorney whose billing is denied by the JAC, including an attorney seeking additional compensation in an unusual and extraordinary circumstance, must follow the procedures in section 27.5304(12), Florida Statutes, and their contract with the JAC; file the appropriate motion; and set the matter for hearing before the Chief Judge or the Chief Judge’s designee. • To be reinstated to the Registry upon a voluntary removal, the attorney must file a new application. • The Clerks must publish on their website the name and phone number of a point of contact for attorneys to notify them of changes in their phone number, availability, or status. • When requested by the Court, the Public Defender, the Regional Counsel, or a court- appointed attorney, the Clerks must provide the name of the next registry attorney. • Expenditures for due process costs must be pre-approved • Sixth Circuit Administrative Order 2025-017 – Attachment A Updated 10/21/25 SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT REGISTRY LISTS - STANDARDS AND QUALIFICATIONS Registry List Attorney Qualifications (All Continuing Legal Education must have been approved by The Florida Bar) Service Areas Capital Trials (Lead Counsel and Co-Counsel) A “capital case” is any offense for which the potential sentence is death and the state has not waived seeking the death penalty. • In the 12 months prior to the effective date of the contract to provide court-appointed attorney services, the attorney must have completed a minimum of 10 hours of CLE devoted to criminal law. • In addition to any CLE requirement under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.112 and 3.113, during any year that an attorney does not attend at least 12 hours of CLE devoted to the defense of capital cases, the attorney must obtain and review the case law update materials from the Public Defender’s Office or the Florida Public Defender Association, Inc. • To be appointed as lead counsel, the attorney must meet the requirements of Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.112(f) during the entire contract period. • To be appointed as co-counsel, the attorney must meet the requirements of Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.112(f) or the requirements of Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.112(g) during the entire contract period. • The attorney must meet requirements 1-5 of the Capital Trials Registry List 2. • The attorney must meet the requirements of Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.112(h) during the entire contract period. • Prior to the effective date of the contract to provide court-appointed attorney services, the attorney must have completed the CLE requirements described in Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.113. • The attorney has served as lead counsel or co-counsel in 10 felony cases, 5 of which must have been felony jury trials that were tried to completion. • In the 12 months prior to the effective date of the contract to provide court-appointed attorney services, the attorney must have completed a minimum of 10 hours of CLE devoted to criminal law AND has either 1) completed at least 3 hours of CLE devoted to delinquency law, which may be part of the required 10 hours of CLE devoted to criminal law, OR 2) completed at least 3 hours of CLE devoted to legal advocacy for children, which may not be a part of the required 10 hours of CLE devoted to criminal law. • In the 12 months prior to the effective date of the contract to provide court-appointed attorney services, the attorney must have completed 1) a minimum of 10 hours of CLE devoted to criminal law AND 2) a minimum of 10 hours of CLE devoted to appellate law. • The attorney is an experienced and active practitioner in the field of appellate criminal law or has experience in the appeal of at least 5 criminal cases. • In the 12 months prior to the effective date of the contract to provide court-appointed attorney services, the attorney must have completed a minimum of 3 hours of CLE devoted to dependency law. • The attorney must appear at all shelter hearings at which they are scheduled to appear by the Court or the Clerk of the Circuit Court.
The registry is provided to the Clerk of the Circuit Court who must maintain the registry and provide to the Court the name of the next attorney for appointment.
Reviewer note: Composed from the court's own bytes during the 6th's ledger close 2026-08-03; scope from the court's numbering convention (PI-/PA-/PA⁄PI) or an exclusive county mention. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3e): running page headers/footers removed; wording untouched. Verbatim from the order, fetched live 2026-08-03; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.