California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 3 — Professions and Vocations Generally, Chapter 2.7 — Advertising for Workers’ Compensation Legal Services, Section 5499.30

(a) Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization, or association which prints, displays, publishes, distributes, or broadcasts or causes or permits to be advertised, printed, displayed, published, distributed, or broadcast any advertising which purports to provide legal services for obtaining workers’ compensation benefits shall include the name of at least one attorney associated with the individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization, or association in all such advertising.

(b) As used in this section, the term “legal services” includes any service which refers potential clients to any attorney.

(c) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both.

Notes

Requires any person or entity advertising legal services for obtaining workers’ compensation benefits to include the name of at least one associated attorney in every advertisement, and defines legal services to include attorney referrals. Establishes a violation as a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in county jail, a fine up to $10,000, or both.

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