Lawyers' disciplinary history to be posted on Bar's Web site.

A method of listing Bar members' 10-year disciplinary history on the Bar Web site has been approved by the Board of Governors.

The board, at its recent Tampa meeting, accepted the recommendations of the Communications Committee, which could be implemented by this summer.

Committee Chair-elect Richard Tanner told the board that the new method would utilize the member biography pages on the Bar Web site's Find a Lawyer section.

Each member's page, he said, will have a "10-year Discipline History" item added. The word "none" will appear if the member has had no discipline during that period and the word "yes" will appear if there is a history.

When the cursor is placed on the line, Tanner said, a message will appear advising that by clicking a displayed link, the member's 10-year discipline history will be displayed.

That includes, he added, all admonishments, reprimands, suspensions, and disbarments.

In addition, if the member has a disciplinary history extending beyond 10 years, when the viewer puts the cursor on the link, a further message will be displayed which says, "For information about any disciplinary actions for this attorney that occurred more than 10 years ago, please contact The Florida Bar via e-mail at lrinfo@flabar.org."

The committee also recommended including a statement on the main Find a Lawyer page on the Web site, which leads to the individual members' bio pages, noting that until a rule was changed in...