Legal Research

The Florida Board of Bar Examiners will be checking the Facebook and other social networking sites of bar applicants who:

•  are required to establish, under 3-13(d) of the Rules of the Supreme Court Relating to Admissions to the Bar, that they have been rehabilitated from prior conduct adversely affecting their character and fitness for admission to the bar, to ensure that they display no malice or ill feeling towards those who initiated the proceeding against them;
• have a history of substance abuse or dependency;
• have "significant candor concerns;"
• have a history of unauthorized practice of law allegations;
• present the possibility of having held themselves out as attorneys; or
• have been involved with an organization advocating the overthrow of the government.