Court, Bar to investigate mentoring requirement: 'all I ask is that you have an open...

Florida Supreme Court Justice Raoul Cantero has announced the Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism and The Florida Bar are establishing a joint committee to study mandatory mentoring for all new Bar members.

Cantero reported on the subject at the Bar Board of Governors' June 1 meeting in Key West.

He said at a recent retreat the commission heard a report on the State Bar of Georgia's first-in-the-nation required mentoring program for its new bar members.

"We were excited on hearing about it and I wanted to share that excitement with you,