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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6234
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6234
Any information provided to or obtained by the Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program, or any subcommittee or agent thereof, shall be as follows: (a) Confidential and shall not be disclosed pursuant to any state law, including, but not limited to, the California Public Records
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6235
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6235
(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), participants in the Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program shall be responsible for all expenses relating to treatment and recovery. (2) Consistent with subdivision (b), funds collected pursuant to Section 6140.9 for the Attorney Di
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6236
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6236
The State Bar shall actively engage in outreach activities to make licensees, the legal community, and the general public aware of the existence and availability of the Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program. Outreach shall include, but not be limited to, the development and c
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6237
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6237
It is the intent of the Legislature that the authorization of an Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program not be construed as limiting or altering the powers of the Supreme Court of this state to disbar or discipline licensees of the State Bar.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6240
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6240
For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Immigration reform act” means either of the following: (1) Any pending or future act of Congress that is enacted after October 5, 2013, that authorizes an undocumented immigrant who entered the United States with
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6241
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6241
This article shall apply to the following: (a) An attorney who is an active licensee of the State Bar who provides immigration reform act services. (b) An attorney who is not an active licensee of the State Bar, but who meets both of the following: (1) The attorney is authorized
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6242
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6242
(a) It is unlawful for an attorney to demand or accept the advance payment of any funds from a person for immigration reform act services in connection with any of the following: (1) An immigration reform act as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 6240, before
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6243
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6243
(a) (1) When a contract for legal services is required in writing pursuant to Section 6148, or is subject to Section 1632 of the Civil Code, an attorney providing immigration reform act services shall provide a written notice informing the client that he or she may report complai
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6250
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6250
(a) “Charges” means the amount of money to be paid to the consumer legal funding company by or on behalf of the consumer, above the funded amount provided by or on behalf of the company to a California consumer pursuant to this article. Charges include all administrative, origina
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6251
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6251
(a) (1) All consumer legal funding transactions shall be codified in a written contract. (2) If the consumer legal funding contract was negotiated in a language other than English, the consumer shall be provided a copy of the contract in both English and the language in which the
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6252
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6252
(a) All contracts for a consumer legal funding transaction shall disclose material terms to the consumer, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) Clear and conspicuous language, on the first page of the contract, detailing all of the following: (A) The funded amo
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6253
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6253
The contracted amount to be paid to the consumer legal funding company shall be a predetermined amount based upon intervals of time from the funding date through the resolution date, and shall not be determined as a percentage of the recovery from the legal claim.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6254
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6254
(a) A consumer legal funding company shall be prohibited from doing any of the following: (1) Paying or offering to pay commissions, referral fees, or other forms of consideration to any attorney, law firm, or any of their employees for referring a consumer to the company. (2) Ac
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6255
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6255
The contingent right to receive an amount of the potential proceeds of a legal claim is assignable by a consumer.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6256
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6256
(a) An attorney, or the attorney’s immediate family, retained by a consumer shall not have a financial interest in a consumer legal funding company offering consumer legal funding, and shall not provide consumer legal funding directly to a consumer. (b) Any attorney who has refer
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6300
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6300
There is in each county of this State a board of law library trustees, which governs the law library established for the county under the provisions of this chapter.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6301
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6301
(a) Except as otherwise provided by statute, a board of law library trustees is constituted as follows: (1) In a county where there are no more than three judges of the superior court, each of those judges is ex officio a trustee. The judges may at their option select only one of
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6301.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6301.1
Notwithstanding Section 6301, in San Diego County the board of law library trustees shall be constituted, as follows: (a) Up to five judges of the superior court, to be elected by and from the superior court judges of the county. Each superior court judge so elected shall serve a
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6301.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6301.5
In any county where there are no more than three judges of the superior court, the board of supervisors, with the concurrence of the majority of the incumbent judges of the superior court, may reduce the number of law library trustees to not less than three members.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6302
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6302
Appointments of trustees which are to be made by the board of supervisors of the county shall be made at the first meeting of the board of supervisors after the establishment of a law library in the county, the appointees to serve until the first meeting of the board of superviso
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6302.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6302.5
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in Los Angeles County appointments made by judges of the superior court shall be for a term of four years, and appointments made by the board of supervisors of the county shall be for a term of two years. (b) The terms of no more th
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6303
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6303
The office of trustee is honorary, without salary or other compensation.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6304
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6304
Each board of law library trustees shall meet quarterly on a day it appoints, and any board may meet at other times as it appoints, at a place to be designated for that purpose. The president of the board may call a special meeting at any time for the transaction of necessary bus
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6305
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6305
A board of law library trustees may remove any trustee, except an ex officio trustee, who is absent from three consecutive meetings of the board, and may fill all vacancies that from any cause occur in the board.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6306
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 6306
Each board shall appoint one of its number as president.