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7 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 599 (1979)
Florida Bar Induction Address

handle is hein.journals/flsulr7 and id is 609 raw text is: FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW VOLUME 7 FALL 1979 NUMBER 4 FLORIDA BAR INDUCTION ADDRESS* CHRISTOPHER L. GRIFFIN** Because I do not presume to know any more about the practice of law than you do, I will not attempt to talk about that. What I would like to talk about is what I perceive to be a great service that we here today can render to the organized bar, namely, the educa- tion of other, more experienced attorneys on the present state of bar admission procedures and the bar examination. The need for such education can be seen in the current profes- sional regulation reform movement, a movement that is currently gaining strength throughout the state of Florida. Lawmakers and the public accuse professional self-regulation of inherent protection- ism and are increasingly questioning the ability of the professions to regulate themselves in a manner consistent with the public inter- est. Case books, legal periodicals, newspapers, and news magazines are replete with records and accounts of litigation, administrative action, and executive decisions regarding professional self- regulation. The Florida Legislature, in just the past few months, has taken strong steps to remove the regulation and control of several professions from the hands of members of those professions. There is little reason to think that lawyers are immune from this movement. In fact, certain legislators have already proposed consti- tutional amendments which would take the admission and disci- pline of attorneys out of the jurisdiction of the supreme court. And, on the national level, the Federal Trade Commission is presently investigating whether bar association regulatory activities are un- fair, deceptive, and anticompetitive. If we hope to stem this tide and retain our privilege of self- regulation, then we, as attorneys, must make right our own house. That is where we come in. Admission tests and procedures are a * Formal Induction Ceremony, May 31, 1979, Lakeland, Florida. ** B.S. 1976, Florida State University; J.D. 1978, Florida State University College of Law. Associate of the law firm of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith and Cutler, Tampa, Florida. Mr. Griffin graduated with Highest Honors, a distinction earned by only twelve graduates since the College of Law's inception in 1966. He was selected by the Florida Supreme Court to address those inductees being sworn in at the Lakeland induction cere- mony.

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