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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6141.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6141.3
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the State Bar shall provide offers of discounts and other benefits to active and inactive licensees of the State Bar, including, but not limited to, insurance and noninsurance affinity programs, until December 31, 2018, and insurance aff
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6142
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6142
Upon the payment of the annual license fees, including any costs imposed pursuant to Section 6140.7, and penalties imposed pursuant to Section 6143, each licensee shall receive a certificate issued under the direction of the board evidencing the payment.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6143
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6143
Any licensee, active or inactive, failing to pay any fees, penalties, or costs after they become due, and after two months written notice of his or her delinquency, shall have his or her license suspended. The licensee may be reinstated upon the payment of accrued fees or costs a
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6143.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6143.5
Any licensee, active or inactive, failing to pay any child support after it becomes due shall be subject to Section 17520 of the Family Code.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6144
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6144
(a) All fees shall be paid into the treasury of the State Bar, and, when so paid, shall become part of its funds. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) and consistent with the reimbursement requirement under Section 6031.5, all fees paid pursuant to Section 6140.02 shall be paid by
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6144.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6144.1
(a) The net proceeds from the sale of real property, after payment of obligations and encumbrances and reasonable costs of acquiring and relocating its facilities, if any, shall be held by the State Bar without expenditure or commitment for any purpose until approved by the Legis
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6144.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6144.5
It is the intent of the Legislature to confirm, validate, and declare effective the annual license fees, and all augmentations, including, but not limited to, those made under Sections 6140.3 and 6140.6, fixed and collected by the board for 1990, and all other acts arising from a
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6145
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6145
(a) The board shall engage the services of an independent national or regional public accounting firm with at least five years of experience in governmental auditing for an audit of its financial statement for each fiscal year. The financial statement shall be promptly certified
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6145.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6145.1
(a) (1) The California State Bar shall prepare a report providing written justification for how it would use revenue generated by an increase in the mandatory annual license fee authorized by Section 6140 for active licensees and Section 6141 for inactive licensees. It is the int
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6146
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6146
(a) An attorney shall not contract for or collect a contingency fee for representing any person seeking damages in connection with an action for injury or damage against a health care provider based upon such person’s alleged professional negligence in excess of the following lim
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6147
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6147
(a) An attorney who contracts to represent a client on a contingency fee basis shall, at the time the contract is entered into, provide a duplicate copy of the contract, signed by both the attorney and the client, or the client’s guardian or representative, to the plaintiff, or t
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6147.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6147.5
(a) Sections 6147 and 6148 shall not apply to contingency fee contracts for the recovery of claims between merchants as defined in Section 2104 of the Commercial Code, arising from the sale or lease of goods or services rendered, or money loaned for use, in the conduct of a busin
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6148
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6148
(a) In any case not coming within Section 6147 in which it is reasonably foreseeable that total expense to a client, including attorney fees, will exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), the contract for services in the case shall be in writing. At the time the contract is entered
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6149
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6149
A written fee contract shall be deemed to be a confidential communication within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section 6068 and of Section 952 of the Evidence Code.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6149.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6149.5
(a) Upon the payment of one hundred dollars ($100) or more in settlement of any third-party liability claim the insurer shall provide written notice to the claimant if both of the following apply: (1) The claimant is a natural person. (2) The payment is delivered to the claimant’
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6150
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6150
This article is a part of Chapter 4 of this division of the Business and Professions Code, but the phrase “this chapter” as used in Chapter 4 does not apply to the provisions of this article unless expressly made applicable.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6151
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6151
As used in this article: (a) A runner or capper is any person, firm, association or corporation acting for consideration in any manner or in any capacity as an agent for an attorney at law or law firm, whether the attorney or any member of the law firm is admitted in California o
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6152
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6152
(a) It is unlawful for: (1) Any person, in an individual capacity or in a capacity as a public or private employee, or for any firm, corporation, partnership or association to act as a runner or capper for any attorneys or to solicit any business for any attorneys in and about th
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6153
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6153
(a) A person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation violating subdivision (a) of Section 6152 is punishable, upon a first conviction, by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year or by a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), or by both tha
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6154
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6154
(a) Any contract for professional services secured by any attorney at law or law firm in this state through the services of a runner or capper is void. In any action against any attorney or law firm under the Unfair Practices Act, Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 17000) of Divi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6155
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6155
(a) An individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other nongovernmental entity shall not operate for the direct or indirect purpose, in whole or in part, of referring potential clients to attorneys, and no attorney shall accept a referral of such potential clients,
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6155.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6155.1
(a) Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity, including, but not limited to, any person or entity having an ownership interest in a lawyer referral service, that engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in violations of Section 6155, shall be liab
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6156
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6156
(a) No attorney licensed or otherwise authorized to practice in this state shall share legal fees directly or indirectly with an out-of-state alternative business structure unless all of the following apply: (1) The attorney is also licensed in the state in which the alternative
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6156.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6156.5
(a) Any person may bring a civil action for a violation of Section 6155 for the following remedies: (1) Statutory damages of a minimum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) up to a maximum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per violation or three times the amount of actual da
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6157
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6157
As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Advertise” means to engage in any communication constituting an advertisement. (b) “Advertisement” means any communication, through any written, recorded, or electronic means, whether available to, or directed general