{"id":5045,"date":"2004-10-01T21:47:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T01:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/10\/01\/upl-a-felony-now-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:23","slug":"upl-a-felony-now-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/10\/01\/upl-a-felony-now-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"upl a felony now in florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2377'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/lawyerv.gif\" alt=\"lawyer v\" \/>&nbsp; <EM>PSA<\/EM>: As of October 1, 2004, it is a <EM>felony<\/EM> in Florida to practice law<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">without a license, to falsely hold oneself out to be a lawyer, to practice law<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">while disbarred or under suspension from practice, <EM>or<\/EM> to assist&nbsp;a disbarred or<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">suspened lawyer in the unauthorized practice of law.&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone might want to<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">warn the hordes of party lawyers heading to Florida for the election &#8212; a felony<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">in the third degree carries a sentence up to 5 years imprisonment. (via <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sunethics.com\/news_item_19.htm\">sunethics<\/A>)<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\">See <A href=\"http:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;URL=Ch0454\/ch0454.htm\">Fla. Stat. sec. 454<\/A>.23, 454.31 and 454.32. <BR><\/DIV><\/FONT><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\">the children<BR>pretend to be foxes&#8230;<BR>pampas grass<\/FONT><\/DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\"><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\"><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<FONT size=\"2\"><FONT size=\"1\">by <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/webusers.xula.edu\/dlanoue\/issa\/index.html\"><STRONG><FONT color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"1\"><EM>Kobayashi Issa<\/EM><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><FONT size=\"1\">, translated by <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/06\/03#a1610\"><FONT color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\"><STRONG>David G. Lanoue<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><FONT size=\"2\">&nbsp;<FONT face=\"Times New Roman\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/notequalblue.gif\" alt=\"not equal blue\" \/><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; PSA: As of October 1, 2004, it is a felony in Florida to practice law without a license, to falsely hold oneself out to be a lawyer, to practice law while disbarred or under suspension from practice, or to assist&nbsp;a disbarred or suspened lawyer in the unauthorized practice of law.&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone might want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1jn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13600,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}