Legal Education
Sep. 20, 2022
Newsom signs bill, killing State Bar paraprofessional program
The bill was passed as an urgency measure so it goes into effect immediately. This guarantees that the bar cannot precipitously submit their paraprofessional proposal to the Supreme Court or the legislature before the restrictions go into effect.
Although the State Bar’s main mission is to license and discipline attorneys, many would be surprised to hear of their escalating efforts to open the door for corporations and paraprofessionals to practice law. For the last four years, the State Bar of California has been taking increasingly aggressive steps to deregulate the practice of law under the guise of “closing the justice gap.” Specifically, their proposals would authorize unsupervised non-lawyer paraprofessi...
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