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Perspective

Jun. 3, 2013

Bar-wide vote needed for licensing expansion

Any expansion should be limited to organizations licensed by the State Bar with named individuals responsible for internal compliance, and these organizations limited to specified areas. By Ronald L. Hartman

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

Professor Gillian Hadfield is quite correct. Any expansion should be limited to organizations licensed by the State Bar with named individuals responsible for internal compliance, and these organizations limited to specified areas such as family law and landlord-tenant matters with stated strictures and oversight. ["Licensing of nonlawyers gets traction," May 23.]

Otherwise, we will wind up with large law firms and no me...

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