Corpus browser
163223 records-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6210
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6210
The Legislature finds that, due to insufficient funding, existing programs providing free legal services in civil matters to indigent persons, especially underserved client groups, such as the elderly, the disabled, juveniles, and non-English-speaking persons, do not adequately m
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6210.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6210.5
(a) There shall be created, within the State Bar, a Legal Services Trust Fund Commission to administer IOLTA accounts, Equal Access Funds, or similar funds or grant moneys intended for the support of qualified legal services projects and qualified support centers, as those terms
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6211
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6211
(a) An attorney or law firm that, in the course of the practice of law, receives or disburses trust funds shall establish and maintain an IOLTA account in which the attorney or law firm shall deposit or invest all client deposits or funds that are nominal in amount or are on depo
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6212
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6212
An attorney who, or a law firm that, establishes an IOLTA account pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 6211 shall comply with all of the following provisions: (a) The IOLTA account shall be established and maintained with an eligible institution offering or making available an
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6213
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6213
As used in this article: (a) “Qualified legal services project” means either of the following: (1) A nonprofit project incorporated and operated exclusively in California that provides as its primary purpose and function civil legal services without charge to indigent persons and
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6214
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6214
(a) Projects meeting the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 6213 which are funded either in whole or part by the Legal Services Corporation or with Older Americans Act funds shall be presumed qualified legal services projects for the purpose of this article. (b) Projects
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6214.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6214.5
A law school program that meets the definition of a “qualified legal services project” as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 6213, and that applied to the State Bar for funding under this article not later than February 17, 1984, shall be deemed eligible for a
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6215
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6215
(a) Support centers satisfying the qualifications specified in subdivision (b) of Section 6213 which were operating an office and providing services in California on December 31, 1980, shall be presumed to be qualified support centers for the purposes of this article. (b) Support
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6216
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6216
The State Bar shall distribute all moneys received under the program established by this article for the provision of civil legal services to indigent persons. The funds first shall be distributed 18 months from the effective date of this article, or upon such a date, as shall be
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6217
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6217
With respect to the provision of legal assistance under this article, each recipient shall ensure all of the following: (a) The maintenance of quality service and professional standards. (b) The expenditure of funds received in accordance with the provisions of this article. (c)
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6218
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6218
All legal services projects and support centers receiving funds pursuant to this article shall adopt financial eligibility guidelines for indigent persons. (a) Qualified legal services programs shall ensure that funds appropriated pursuant to this article shall be used solely to
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6219
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6219
Qualified legal services projects and support centers may use funds provided under this article for the following: (a) To provide work opportunities with pay, and where feasible, scholarships for disadvantaged law students to help defray their law school expenses. (b) To provide
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6220
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6220
Attorneys in private practice who are providing legal services without charge to indigent persons shall not be disqualified from receiving the services of the qualified support centers.
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6221
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6221
Qualified legal services projects shall make significant efforts to utilize 20 percent of the funds allocated under this article for increasing the availability of services to the elderly, the disabled, juveniles, or other indigent persons who are members of disadvantaged and und
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6222
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6222
A recipient of funds allocated pursuant to this article annually shall submit a financial statement to the State Bar, including an audit of the funds by a certified public accountant or a fiscal review approved by the State Bar, a report demonstrating the programs on which they w
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6223
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6223
No funds allocated by the State Bar pursuant to this article shall be used for any of the following purposes: (a) The provision of legal assistance with respect to any fee generating case, except in accordance with guidelines which shall be promulgated by the State Bar. (b) The p
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6224
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6224
The State Bar shall have the power to determine that an applicant for funding is not qualified to receive funding, to deny future funding, or to terminate existing funding because the recipient is not operating in compliance with the requirements or restrictions of this article.
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6225
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6225
The Board of Trustees of the State Bar shall adopt the regulations and procedures necessary to implement this article and to ensure that the funds allocated herein are utilized to provide civil legal services to indigent persons, especially underserved client groups such as but n
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6226
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6226
The program authorized by this article shall become operative only upon the adoption of a resolution by the Board of Trustees of the State Bar stating that regulations have been adopted pursuant to Section 6225 which conform the program to all applicable tax and banking statutes,
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6227
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6227
Nothing in this article shall create an obligation or pledge of the credit of the State of California or of the State Bar of California. Claims arising by reason of acts done pursuant to this article shall be limited to the moneys generated hereunder.
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6228
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6228
If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any group or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions or applications of this article which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6230
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6230
It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Bar of California seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate attorneys with impairment due to substance use or a mental health disorder affecting competency so that attorneys so afflicted may be treated and returned to the
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6231
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6231
(a) The board shall establish and administer an Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program, and shall establish a committee to oversee the operation of the program. The committee shall be comprised of 12 members who shall be appointed as follows: (1) Six members appointed by the B
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6232
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6232
(a) The committee shall establish practices and procedures for the acceptance, denial, completion, or termination of attorneys in the Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program, and may recommend rehabilitative criteria for adoption by the board for acceptance, denial, completion
-
Open
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6233
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6233
An attorney entering the diversion and assistance program pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 6232 may be enrolled as an inactive licensee of the State Bar and not be entitled to practice law, or may be required to agree to various practice restrictions, including, where appro