Clerk's Office FAQs
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Contact The Florida Bar at (850) 561-5600 for paper copies. Visit the jury instructions website.
The phone number for the clerk's office at the Second Judicial Circuit is (850) 577-4000.
If you are at the deadline for filing your jurisdictional brief or you must file some other document, and the case file has not yet been set up within the Portal to accept subsequent filings, then call the Clerk's Office at (850) 488-0125.
The filing fee for cases filed in the Florida Supreme Court is $300.00
If Bar members need a formal Certificate of Good Standing from the Florida Supreme Court, they can find more information about the process on the Clerk's Office web pages.
Send a letter or a completed Name Change Request Form to the Supreme Court Clerk's Office requesting your name be changed on the roll of attorneys. The request may be emailed to FSC@flcourts.org or mailed to Florida Supreme Court, Clerk's Office, 500 South Duval Street, Tallahassee FL 32399.
Your request should include: your name as currently listed with The Florida Bar; your new name clearly divided into first, middle, and last names; and your Florida Bar number. If you wish for the name change order to be returned by mail, rather than to your registered email address, you must include a self-addressed stamped envelope with your mailed request. Please do not send any personal documents, such as copies of identification documents or marriage/dissolution documents, with this form. Such documents are not needed to process a name change request.
NO. If you are a member of The Florida Bar in good standing, then you may NOT file pleadings by e-mail unless you are specifically exempt from use of the Florida Courts eFiling Portal. (AOSC13-7)
If you are a pro se filer or are a member of The Florida Bar, but not in good standing, then you may NOT e-mail a copy of your pleading.
NOTE: For additional information, see: General Filing Information.
Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.210(b) requires all briefs that are computer-generated to be submitted in either Arial 14-point font or Bookman Old Style 14-point font. These are the only font types that are acceptable. Also, all briefs that are computer-generated shall contain a certificate of compliance signed by the counsel, or the party if unrepresented, certifying that the brief complies with the font requirements of this rule. This certification shall be included right after the certificate of service.
While an individual may represent her or his interest in court without an attorney, a corporation is not permitted to do so through non-lawyer employees, officers, or shareholders. See Richter v. Higdon Homes, Inc., 544 So.2d 300 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989); Nicholson Supply Co. vs. First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. of Hardee County, 184 So. 2d 438 (Fla. 2d DCA 1966).
Attorneys who are members in good standing in other jurisdictions may be granted permission by court order to appear in proceedings in this Court. Submissions must be in compliance with both Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure 9.440(a) and the requirements contained in Florida Rules of Judicial Administration.
You must apply to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The contact number is 850-410-7870.