Tom Clancy’s “Clear and Present Danger,” at least the Harrison Ford-starring movie version of it, involves a series of covert military actions code-named “Reciprocity,” which, once uncovered by CIA whiz Jack Ryan, wreck a presidency.
I’ll try not to stretch the comparisons too far here, because there’s nothing really martial or covert about Ramón Abadin’s idea of reciprocity. But his effort is threatening his tenure as president of the Florida Bar Association. During his inaugural speech in June, Abadin, a Miami-based litigation partner at Sedgwick, proposed that the bar adopt a reciprocity policy that would waive state bar exam requirements for out-of-state lawyers who have passed the uniform national bar exam.
