Campaign contributions.

We need a rule or statute that requires lawyers who individually have played, or are members of firms which have played, a significant role in a judicial candidate's campaign, to disclose that fact to the opposing party in litigation and to the public.

Bundler lawyers or firms have great influence with campaigning judicial candidates who become or are sitting judges. The public has a right to expect an even playing field of disclosure. The Bar, the Supreme Court of Florida, or the Legislature have a duty to require at least full transparency of the spiraling amounts of money raised by trial lawyers and afloat in judicial...