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Government

May 9, 2013

Bill will give more teeth to State Bar in catching unauthorized practitioners of law

A bill to endow the State Bar with more power to pursue unauthorized practitioners of law unanimously passed the state Assembly Judiciary Committee Tuesday.


By Paul Jones


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A bill to give the State Bar more power to pursue unauthorized practitioners of law unanimously passed the state Assembly Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning.


AB 888 by Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, is intended to make it easier to catch scam artists who pretend to be attorneys. The bill would allow the bar more authority. Importantly, it would let the bar collect penalties from perpetrator...

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