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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.2
The State Bar shall set as a goal the improvement of its disciplinary system so that no more than six months will elapse from the receipt of complaints to the time of dismissal, admonishment of the attorney involved, or the filing of formal charges by the State Bar Office of Tria
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.37
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.37
The State Bar shall have a preference for using in-house employees for information technology projects, whenever possible. Nothing in this section shall be read to be inconsistent with any memorandum of understanding between the State Bar and the recognized employee organizations
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.5
(a) The board shall establish and administer a Client Security Fund to relieve or mitigate pecuniary losses caused by the dishonest conduct of licensees of the State Bar, foreign legal consultants registered with the State Bar, and attorneys registered with the State Bar under th
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.55
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.55
(a) The board may increase the annual license fees fixed by it pursuant to Section 6140 by an additional amount per active licensee not to exceed forty dollars ($40), and the annual license fees fixed by it pursuant to Section 6141 by an additional amount per inactive licensee no
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.56
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.56
(a) To ensure that the Client Security Fund can adequately protect the public and relieve or mitigate financial losses caused by the dishonest conduct of licensees of the State Bar by paying claims in a timely manner, the State Bar shall conduct a thorough analysis of the Client
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.6
The board may increase the annual license fees fixed by Sections 6140 and 6141 by an additional amount not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) to be applied to the costs of the disciplinary system.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.7
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.7
Costs assessed against a licensee publicly reproved or suspended, where suspension is stayed and the licensee is not actually suspended, shall be added to and become a part of the license fee of the licensee, for the next calendar year. Unless time for payment of discipline costs
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.8
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.8
(a) Any order imposing upon a licensee public reproval, discipline, or accepting a resignation with a disciplinary matter pending, in which the licensee is ordered to pay restitution is enforceable as a money judgment by the payee. In the entry or enforcement of any money judgmen
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.9
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6140.9
(a) Moneys for the support of the program established pursuant to Article 15 (commencing with Section 6230), treatment services for those who cannot afford to pay, and related programs approved by the committee established pursuant to Section 6231 shall be paid in whole or part b
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6141
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6141
(a) The board shall fix the annual license fee for inactive licensees at a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100). The annual license fee for inactive licensees is payable on or before the date set by the State Bar, which shall not be less than 12 months from the prior year
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6141.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6141.1
(a) The payment by any licensee of the annual license fee, any portion thereof, or any penalty thereon, may be waived by the board as it may provide by rule. The board may require submission of recent federal and state income tax returns and other proof of financial condition as
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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.