State Bar & Bar Associations
Sep. 3, 2020
State Bar issues draft rules for temporary licensure program
A California provisionally licensed lawyer would be allowed to appear before a court, draft legal documents, contracts or transactional documents and pleadings, engage in negotiations and settlement discussions, and provide other legal advice, as long as a lawyer supervises the work.
The State Bar has begun circulating draft rules for a temporary supervised provisional licensure program which will be available for 2020 graduates who have not passed the bar exam.
The deadline for the public to comment on the draft rules is Sept. 15.
Under the proposed rules, a supervising attorney would have more to say about what the provisionally licensed lawyer would be allowed to do than in ...
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