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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jun. 21, 2006

Bar Wants Insurance Disclosure

The California Bar has revived an initiative to require lawyers to disclose to clients if they do not carry malpractice insurance. Until 2000, the state Business and Professions Code called for attorneys to disclose in their contracts with clients the status of their malpractice coverage.

By Savannah Blackwell and Erin Park
Daily Journal Staff Writers


      The California Bar has revived an initiative to require lawyers to disclose to clients if they do not carry malpractice insurance.
      Until 2000, the state Business and Professions Code called for attorneys to disclose in their contracts with clients the status of their malpractice coverage.
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