The Daily Business Review sought Professor H. Scott Fingerhut to comment on a soon-to-be-disbarred attorney’s constitutional challenge to The Florida Bar’s authority to govern a lawyer’s ability to practice.
Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 3-5.2 provides for emergency suspension, interim probation, placement on the inactive list, freezing of trust accounts, and more, when a lawyer is deemed to be causing great public harm.
“No matter how hard any of us work to get there, and stay there, practicing law is a privilege, not a right, vested or otherwise, of any kind,” Professor Fingerhut said. “And like the privilege to drive, we risk a forfeit when we break the covenant.”
Read Professor Fingerhut’s comments here .
Professor Fingerhut is Assistant Director of the Trial Advocacy Program at FIU Law. He teaches Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Practice, and Criminal Procedure. He is dually appointed as a Fellow in The Honors College at FIU, where he helps with pre-law advising and teaches the upper-division seminar Observing Ourselves.
Reach him at 305-348-8095 and fingerhut@fiu.edu .
To find out more about Trial Advocacy at FIU Law, visit law.fiu.edu/trialad .