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It is in the RULES OF THE SUPREME COURT RELATING TO ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR

4-13.4 Alternative Method of Educational Qualification.

(a) Applicants Not Meeting Educational Qualifications. For applicants not meeting the educational qualifications in rule 4-13.1, the following requirements shall be met:

(1) such evidence as the Board may require that the applicant was engaged in the practice of law for at least 10 years in the District of Columbia, in other states of the United States of America, or in federal courts of the United States or its territories, possessions, or protectorates, and was in good standing at the bar of the jurisdictions in which the applicant practiced; and

(2) a representative compilation of work product in the field of law showing the scope and character of the applicant's previous experience and practice at the bar, including samples of the quality of the applicant's work, such as pleadings, briefs, legal memoranda, contracts, or other working papers which the applicant considers illustrative of the applicant's expertise and academic and legal training. The representative compilation of work product shall be confined to the applicant's most recent 10 years of practice and shall be complete and include all supplemental documents requested.

(b) Deadline for Filing Work Product. To be considered timely filed, the work product shall be complete with all required supplemental documentation and filed by the filing deadline of the General Bar Examination as set out in rule 4. Work product initially filed incomplete and perfected after the deadline shall not be considered timely filed. Late or incomplete work product will be given consideration for admission into the next administration of the bar examination for which the deadline has not passed.

(c) Acceptance of Work Product. If a thorough review of the representative compilation of work product and other materials submitted by the applicant shows that the applicant is a lawyer of high ability whose reputation for professional competence is above reproach, the Board may admit the applicant to the General Bar Examination and accept score reports from the National Conference of Bar Examiners or its designee.

(d) Board Discretion. In evaluating academic and legal scholarship under subdivision (a), the Board is clothed with broad discretion.



Basically, you need to have work products (like your the deposition/motion/rog you have conducted) that prove your practice in any state for the past 10 years. Of course, just like all other applicants, you also need to fill out the moral character fitness application, then you are set. For more info, please go to http://www.floridabarexam.org/

lawbaby

do it in CA, NY, or New Hampshire then waive into FL

Another way is to take bars in CA or NY, where clinical practice has a long tradition of granting bar exam qualification, then waive into FL?