This week, the Florida Bar News published an article outlining changes to procedural rules that would make it easier for lawyers to offer “unbundled” legal services in civil as well as family law cases have been endorsed by the Bar Board of Governors.

These changes, presented by the Vision 2016 Committee on Access to the Legal System, will allow lawyers to handle a deposition, summary judgment motion, or other discrete parts of a case without being responsible for other parts or actions by the client.

President Greg Coleman summarized the changes saying, “This is designed to allow lawyers to come into the other areas, like landlord tenant, foreclosure, some of the consumer issues, and provide a limited appearance for components of those cases, as opposed to having to take the whole case.” 

For a complete list of the proposed changes, you can read the full article here.