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- 2. Florida Bar Application Seminar
- 3. Agenda •Completing your Application •Researching your Background (Davis) •Addressing the Tough Issues (Fingerhut) •What Happens After You Submit Your Application? •Questions
- 4. Completing Your Application •All 1Ls must complete their Student Registrations by January 15, 2023. •If you are unable to comply with this deadline, you must inform Assoc. Dean Angie Ortega in writing (afridman@fiu.edu).
- 5. What do you mean by “Bar Application”? Student Registrant Bar Application •Your application to the Florida Board of Bar Examiners to become a member of the Florida Bar upon graduation. •In the fall of your third year (or the semester before your last semester), you will convert your Student Registrant application to a full Florida Bar Application (and set your bar exam date).
- 6. Completing Your Student Registrant Application • Financial Benefits • $100 if filed by Jan. 15 • $350 if filed by March 15 • $400 if filed after March 15. • When you convert in the fall of your third year, you will all pay an additional $600 (plus the laptop fee, if applicable). • Avoid delay in admissions • Job search • Certified Legal Intern • Clinic/Externships • State Attorney’s Office/Office of Public Defender
- 8. Don’t Be Afraid: Completing Your Bar Application Complete the Application ONLINE Create an account and look at the application!!!!!! Once you begin answering questions on your bar application, you will have six months to complete it (the program will save your answers).
- 9. Completing Your Bar Application: Getting Started www.floridabarexam.org
- 10. Getting Started: Look at the Questions! www.floridabarexam.org > FAQ Scroll down to "Bar Application" >What are the questions on the bar application? >Florida Bar Application
- 11. 1. This is the screen you will see when you finalize all questions. 2. Click “Review Draft Bar Application” to review your answers before finalizing the document. After you are finished reviewing your application, click the browser “back” button to return to this page. If you have any changes, click the appropriate section in the green list. 3. When you have no more changes, click “Final Version” Step 1. Review and then come back to this screen. Step 2 Make any changes to your answers by clicking the appropriate section in the green list. Step 3. Click here when you have no more changes.
- 12. 1. This is the screen you will see after you click “Final Version” on the previous screen. 2. Read it carefully. 3. Enter the password you created for your Florida Board of Bar Examiners account (do not type your name or Authy key). 4. Click “Finalize your Bar Application.” Step 1. Enter your FBBE PASSWORD. Step 2. FINALIZE YOUR BAR APPLICATION.
- 13. 1. This is the screen you will see after you click “Finalize your Bar Application” on the previous screen. 2. Click “Display Cover Sheet for Bar Application Submission.” 3. After you have generated and printed your cover sheet (instructions on the next page), return to this page to display and print your finalized bar application, which you should keep for your files. Click here to generate your COVER SHEET.
- 14. You will need to include these documents only if the application program directed to complete them (as a result of your answer to a question). YOUR NAME 1. This is the sheet that the program will generate after you select “Display Cover Sheet for Bar Application Submission.” 2. PRINT IT. This sheet must be the cover page of the packet that you mail to the Board of Bar Examiners. 3. Your packet must include all of the “Required Items.” You should include all of the “Supplemental Items” that you have ready at the time you mail your packet. 4. Make sure you check off each item that you include in your packet. 5. Make sure you notarize all documents that have notary blocks. x x x all notarized Paper Receipt Automatically generated Not needed in Student Registrant Application Include in your Student Registrant Application if you have it now. Required Items
- 15. Once you complete and submit your application online, you will MAIL (yes, in an envelope with postage) the following documents to the Florida Board of Bar Examiners:
- 16. Jose Maria Smith 1234 S.W. 10 Street Miami, FL 33199 Florida Board of Bar Examiners 1891 Eider Court Tallahassee, FL 32399- 1750 Your return address Postmarked by January 15, 2023 Postage Board of Bar Examiners' Address
- 17. Required Documents: What must be in your packet Cover Sheet Authorization & Release Form Application Fee Worksheet Three (3) Copies !!! NOTARIZED
- 18. Required Supplemental Items Also include (if you have it at time of application) Proof of Citizenship: Certified Copy of Birth Certificate or Copy of Immigration Documents Paper Copy of Transcript Request (can be a screenshot). Your prior schools must mail the actual transcripts directly to the FBBE. Any other Supplemental Items that you are required to submit based on answers to questions (ex: Financial Affidavit) can be uploaded directly into the application. Mail them only if you are unable to upload them with the appropriate question when you complete your application.
- 19. • If you do not have a certified copy of your birth certificate (or the copies of your immigration • documents) by January 15, 2023, YOU. CAN. STILL. FILE. YOUR . APPLICATION.
- 20. Fingerprints • You must have fingerprints taken by the FBBE vendor MORPHOTRUST. Make an appointment and visit one of dozens of locations throughout Florida. • Keep your receipt. You must mail it to FBBE. • If you lose your receipt, you must call Morpho Trust at 800-528-1358; they will email you a copy. • There is a Morpho Trust location at the UPS store across from FIU (in the Publix Mall): 1421 SW 107 Avenue. • There is a fee. What if I am a police officer? What if I have top-secret security clearance? What if I am a police officer? What if I just had my fingerprints taken? What if I a member of The military? EVERYONE!!!!
- 21. Tough Topics •Arrests •Financial Issues •Mental Health •Substance Abuse
- 22. WHAT DO I HAVE TO REPORT? What to disclose: • Substance Use Disorders • Dependency and Abuse • Severe Thought Disorders • Schizophrenia • Psychotic Disorder • Severe Mood Disorders • Bipolar Disorder • Major Depressive Mood Disorder What NOT to disclose (WILL NOT BE INVESTIGATED): • Adjustment disorders • Attention Deficit Disorder • General Anxiety and General Depression • Grief or marital counseling • Stress management or counseling UNTREATED Substance Use Disorders and UNTREATED Severe Mental Health Disorders
- 23. From the Florida Board of Bar Examiners: It is important to emphasize that the board encourages applicants experiencing difficulty of coping with the stress of law school and daily life to seek counseling through Florida Lawyer’s Assistance, your school’s counseling center or a private treatment provider. No matter what else you may hear, you will not be penalized for seeking counseling. Be assured that you are not required to report such counseling and, if you do, the board will not investigate it. (emphasis added)
- 24. What Happens After You Submit Your Application? • The Board staff investigates you to determine the character and fitness of each applicant or registrant. • Amendments/Requests for Information • You are responsible for amending your Bar application. • Your application is a continuing application (until the day you take the oath of attorney). • You must amend within 30 days of the occurrence that would change or render incomplete any question on the application.
- 25. What Happens After You submit Your Application? • The Board does not request information from you and you are cleared! • The Board requests information/amendments from you (applicant portal) You respond. You are cleared! You are set for an investigative hearing. You are cleared! Formal Hearing
- 26. If the Board asks for information (or have to file an amendment) • Provide the information in writing through applicant portal, on an amendment form, or directly on the application, depending on the instruction. • Include a copy of the request letter. • Make and keep a copy of the entire packet • Mail or upload, depending on the request.
- 27. When and how do you amend your Bar Application? •When do you amend your application? •Whenever you have an event that, if it had occurred before you filed your application, you would have had to disclose it. •Ex: new address; arrest; new job •How do you amend your application? •https://www.floridabarexam.org
- 28. Click here to amend bar application. Name Contact Information How to Amend an Application that was Filed Electronically 1. Log in to the Florida Board of Bar Examiners website with the username and password that you chose when you created your account. You will also need to use the two-factor authentication system to log in. 2. You will see the home screen on the right. 3. Click ”Review Finalized Bar Application” and select the question that you would like to amend. 4. Make the necessary amendment and follow the directions on the screen to submit.
- 29. Recap • You must file your file a Student Registration with the Florida Board of Bar Examiners by January 15, 2023. If you are unable to comply with this deadline, you must inform Dean Ortega Fridman. • Submit your FIU Law Declaration of Disclosure and your certification that you have read and understand the bar application requirements.
- 30. Recap •Visit www.floridabarexam.org to get started on your Student Registration. •Visit http://libguides.law.fiu.edu/FloridaBarApplication for extremely helpful research resources, Florida Bar resources, and a copy of this presentation, including this presentation.
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- Cover Sheet 1. This is the sheet that the program will generate after you select “Display Cover Sheet for Bar Application Submission.” 2. PRINT IT. This sheet must be the cover page of the packet that you mail to the Board of Bar Examiners. 3. Your packet must include all of the “Required Items.” You should include all of the “Supplemental Items” that you have ready at the time you mail your packet. 4. Make sure you check off each item that you include in your packet. 5. Make sure you notarize all documents that have notary blocks.
- Cover Sheet 1. This is the sheet that the program will generate after you select “Display Cover Sheet for Bar Application Submission.” 2. PRINT IT. This sheet must be the cover page of the packet that you mail to the Board of Bar Examiners. 3. Your packet must include all of the “Required Items.” You should include all of the “Supplemental Items” that you have ready at the time you mail your packet. 4. Make sure you check off each item that you include in your packet. 5. Make sure you notarize all documents that have notary blocks. Authorization and Release Form You must have three copies completed and NOTARIZED. How do you get things notarized? Email Office of Student Services for an appointment. Application Fee Worksheet Complete the worksheet and Attach a check or money order. Many students do not have checks “in their name” (i.e. they do not have checks with their names printed on them). If you include a check, the check does not have to be “in your name” (i.e. it can be your relative or friend’s check), just make sure to write your name in the Memo Section. Fingerprinting Receipt. When you get your fingerprints taken (either here or at an officially sanctioned MORPHO TRUST location), you will be given a paper receipt. Keep that receipt and take a picture of it with your phone; you will have to include that paper receipt in your packet. If you lose your receipt, call MORPHO TRUST at 800-528-1358.
- *We highly encourage you to send these documents in with your application packet at the time of your initial application. If, however, you are still waiting for these documents at the time you need to submit your application, you can submit your application without them (so long as you have the Required Documents in your Packet). You can mail these to the FBBE as soon as you receive them. Proof of Citizenship If you were born in the U.S., you must send in a certified copy of your birth certificate, not the original. If you were born in Florida, you must mail in an application for a certified copy, which is available at www.floridahealth.gov. You must receive the certificate at home and mail it in with your application packet. If you are a non-naturalized U.S. citizen who was born abroad (to U.S. parents), the documentation requirement is different; see me. If you were born outside the U.S., but are a naturalized U.S. citizen, you must provide a photocopy of your certificate of naturalization (and the Bar will submit it to USCIS for verification). For those whose naturalization certificate is in your parent’s name only, see me. If you are not a U.S. citizen, you must provide a photocopy of the documents that grant your status (and the Bar will submit to USCIS for verification). Undergraduate and Graduate School Transcripts: 1. Undergraduate and graduate school transcripts: ask that the school mail the transcripts directly to: Florida Board of Bar Examiners 1891 Eider Court Tallahassee, FL 32308 2. Take a screenshot of the request form (if your school uses online requests) and include that screenshot in your application packet. If your school uses paper request form, keep a copy of that request and include the copy in your application packet. Supplemental Items Must be submitted in hard copy if you are unable to upload them with the application. These documents apply only to applicants who answer “yes” to certain questions. Bar Applications to other jurisdictions Letters to doctors Copies of other litigation documents Checking account records Certificates of good standing Bankruptcy documents DD-214 Financial Affidavit Your application will not be complete until the FBBE has received all of these documents.
- The Florida Bar Application requires disclosure of substance use disorders, such as dependency, addiction and abuse. Severe mental health disorders are required to be disclosed. Severe mental health disorders include, but are not limited to, schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder and major depressive mood disorder. The bar application does not require you to disclose treatment for adjustment disorders, general anxiety, general depression and attention deficit disorder. Nor does it require you to disclose stress, marital or grief counseling. It is important to emphasize that the board encourages applicants experiencing difficulty of coping with the stress of law school and daily life to seek counseling through Florida Lawyer’s Assistance, your school’s counseling center or a private treatment provider. No matter what else you may hear, you will not be penalized for seeking counseling. Be assured that you are not required to report such counseling and, if you do, the board will not investigate it. (click)