Miscellaneous

The Supreme Court issued orders today creating the Office of Professional Regulation. According to the news release, the new office will be in charge of “the Grievance Commission, the Attorney Disciplinary Board, the Commission on Unauthorized Practice of Law, the Commission on Continuing Legal Education, the Client Security Commission, the Lawyer Trust Account Commission, and the Board of Examiners of Shorthand Reporters.” The Board of Law Examiners and administration of testing and licensing of court interpreterd will follow within the next year.

It seems to me that Justice Ternus’ court has made a lot of changes lately. But maybe it’s just that I didn’t subscribe to the email updates before the last few months. When I count up the changes, I find that there were 19 rule changes in 2005, 16 in 2006 and 22, so far, in 2007 (I didn’t count all the rules changed, just how many changes are listed on the website). Not really a big variance, I guess.