The Florida Bar's new Jury Instructions Builder create sets of instructions specific to individual cases

Florida lawyers appear to be taking to The Florida Bar’s new Jury Instructions Builder. Since its June 22 launch, the tool has drawn more than 37,000 page views and 12,300 active users, making it the sixth most-visited page on the Bar’s website.

The builder also has recorded almost 112,000 events since its launch, a figure that reflects users interacting with the tool to build sets of jury instructions.

The numbers suggest strong early interest in a tool designed to streamline what can be a tedious process of downloading individual instructions and copying and pasting them into a case-specific document. The builder lets lawyers, judges, and the public select the instructions they need, put them in the desired order, and receive a single document ready for use.

Florida Bar President Michael Fox Orr announced the builder’s launch during the 2026 Florida Bar Convention, but said the idea began with a conversation a year earlier with Fourth Circuit Judge Anthony Salem and Board of Governors member Braxton Gillam.

Salem told Orr that new lawyers were appearing before the court to try cases while judges were spending an inordinate amount of time working through jury instructions. Salem suggested Florida needed something similar to the U.S. 11th Circuit’s jury instruction builder.

“Without a special committee, without us directing much attention to it, we put the wheels in motion,” Orr said, crediting Florida Bar staff for developing the platform.

How it Works

To build a set of instructions, users will follow these prompts:

• Select the jury instructions category (Civil, Criminal, Contracts & Business or Jimmy Ryce cases),

• Select the specific instructions needed,

• Drag and drop selections to reorder, if necessary,

Once the request is submitted, the person who requested instructions will receive an email asking to validate the email address. Once verified, the builder emails a single document containing the instructions in the order specified.

Users will also be able to download revision histories and proposals for new or amended instructions from the Jury Instructions Builder. The entire set of jury instructions for each category in Word and PDF format will still be available for immediate download.

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