Local Rule Attorney Rule 11: INCAPACITY
S.D. Fla. — Attorney rule
RULE 11. INCAPACITY
When it comes to the attention of the Court that an attorney has been judicially declared incompetent, involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, placed on inactive status or resigned, or has been suspended by another jurisdiction due to such mental incompetence or incapacity or on the basis of physical infirmity or illness, the Court, upon proper proof of the fact, shall enter an order immediately placing the attorney on the Court's inactive list until further order of the Court. If the Court becomes aware that an attorney is incapacitated by reason of mental infirmity or illness or because of the use of drugs or intoxicants, it shall also refer the matter to the Committee to investigate the matter in accordance with the procedures herein.
Effective December 1, 1994. Amended effective April 15, 2002; April 15, 2007; April 15, 2010; December 1, 2015; December 1, 2017.