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Florida Bar members now have access to the latest, most authoritative guides to civil trial practice, real property litigation, small business practice, trust administration, and maritime law.<\/p>\nFlorida Bar practice guides offer Florida-specific guidance across key practice areas<\/p>\n
Florida Bar members now have access to the latest, most authoritative guides to civil trial practice, real property litigation, small business practice, trust administration, and maritime law.<\/p>\n
Few resources are as deeply rooted in Florida practice, assures Bar Marketing Manager Rob Saravia.<\/p>\n
\u201cNational competitors can produce thorough doctrinal treatises, but they cannot replicate institutional knowledge of how Florida judges rule, how Florida circuit clerks process filings, or how the next Florida statutory amendment is being shaped.\u201d<\/p>\n
Produced by The Florida Bar\u2019s Legal Publications Division<\/a>, the guides are authored by Florida judges, experienced Florida practitioners, and Florida legal scholars.<\/p>\n Florida Real Property Litigation<\/a> \u2014 12th Edition (December 2025, 946 pages)<\/p>\n The guide is a 14-chapter playbook for every adversarial real property matter a Florida lawyer is likely to encounter \u2014 quiet title, ejectment, boundary disputes, slander of title, partition, foreclosures, reformation and cancellation of instruments, service of process, breach of sales and loan agreements, restrictive covenants, lis pendens, landlord-tenant disputes, statutory private property rights protection, and attorneys\u2019 fees recovery, Saravia says.<\/p>\n \u201cNational competitors give you doctrine; this gives you the document,\u201d he notes, adding that the guide is built around Florida statutory chapters (F.S. Chs. 65, 48, 49, 95, 720, 723), with form complaints, affidavits, and final judgements embedded directly into each chapter. Designed for an attorney to move quickly from a phone call to a filed pleading, the guide is also a defensive tool that allows \u201cpractitioners to cite it back to opposing counsel and to the court,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Florida Civil Trial Practice<\/a> \u2014 15th Edition (March 2026, 748 pages)<\/p>\n The guide is a 20-chapter manual of the Florida civil trial, from the trial lawyer\u2019s ethical duties (Ch. 1) through the trial notebook, compelling witness attendance, making a proper record, jury selection, opening statement, direct and cross-examination, expert witnesses, documentary and demonstrative evidence, motions practice, summation, jury instructions and verdicts, post-trial motions, and the entry of orders and judgments, Saravia says.<\/p>\n The manual is designed to walk a lawyer through a trial sequentially, with each chapter written by a Florida specialist on jury selection and jury instructions.<\/p>\n \u201cOther treatises teach trial advocacy in the abstract; this teaches you how to try a case under Florida\u2019s specific rules, Florida\u2019s specific verdict forms, and Florida\u2019s specific appellate-preservation traps,\u201d Saravia says.<\/p>\n Statistics show that 98% of civil cases settle, giving fewer attorneys the ability to gain trial experience. The guide is a \u201cco-counsel,\u201d allowing the attorney to build a trial notebook, chapter by chapter, \u201cknowing each step has been vetted by experienced Florida trial veterans,\u201d Saravia notes.<\/p>\n \u201cThe manual turns a courtroom into a checklist, authored by judges and seasoned trial lawyers who tell you exactly what to do, when to do it, and how to preserve the record while you do.\u201d<\/p>\n Florida Small Business Practice<\/a> \u2014 13th Edition (March 2026, 1,208 pages)<\/p>\n The guide is a 16-chapter reference for the lawyer advising small businesses \u2014 entity selection, formation checklist, federal income taxation of each entity type, corporations, partnerships (GP, LP, LLP), LLCs, professional service corporations and PLLCs, sale and purchase of a business, Subchapter S elections, basic securities regulations, Florida franchise law, licensing and regulatory compliance, FLSA and wage-and-hour law, e-commerce, and an overview of bankruptcy, Saravia says.<\/p>\n \u201cThe manual runs Florida-specific tax, franchise, and licensing rules through the same decision framework you use for entity selection.\u201d<\/p>\n The text covers \u201call the moving parts\u201d of engagement for Florida solo and small-firm lawyers who serve as primary advisors for the state\u2019s 3 million small businesses, Saravia says. It also replaces the need to buy five different treatises to serve a single client, he notes.<\/p>\n \u201cFlorida Small Business Practice, 13th\u00a0Edition, gives every Florida attorney a complete operating manual for the small business client \u2014 from entity formation to sale \u2014 written by highly skilled practitioners who serve in leadership positions in the business law community.\u201d<\/p>\n