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State Bar & Bar Associations

Mar. 22, 2014

Process servers want to be regulated by the State Bar

New legislation pushed by process servers would move their oversight from county clerks to the State Bar.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


California lawyers complain about the State Bar and its dues, rules and discipline. But now a group of nonlawyers wants a little of what lawyers have: regulation by the State Bar.


The state's process servers - those folks who force summonses and subpoenas on strangers with the words "you've been served" - have introduced legislation that would move their oversight from Califor...

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