State Bar & Bar Associations
Jul. 1, 2020
California watches Washington state end nonlawyer licensing
The Washington Supreme Court suspended licensing of new applicants for its program because of high costs and few participants, according to a letter from the court on June 5. The Washington bar reported in May that the costs for administering the license had exceeded revenues by almost $1.4 million.
The California State Bar is looking with caution at the state of Washington's recent decision to sunset limited licensing of nonlawyer legal technicians, according to comments Tuesday.
At the Paraprofessional Program Working Group meeting, Chair Chris Iglesias said there are key lessons to draw from Washington's experiment. "Most importantly, whatever we create needs to represent a viable career," Iglesias said. "I just think we rea...
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