Law Practice,
State Bar & Bar Associations
Oct. 10, 2019
State Bar has studied nonlawyer practitioners for 30 years
The bar studied the idea of limited license legal technicians in the late 1980s and early 1990s without taking any implementation steps.
If a top State Bar official’s recent comments that the agency would explore the concept of limited license legal technicians rang familiar, it was for good reason.
The California bar has on multiple occasions dating back 30 years contemplated whether to permit nonlawyers to offer legal services in certain practice areas but has never implemented the idea, even on a trial basis.
This inaction has ge...
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