Sections
31 entriesSection 6075Establishes the disciplinary procedures in the article as a complete alternative and cumulative method for hearing and determining accusations against State Bar…Section 6076Allows the State Bar Board of Trustees, with Supreme Court approval, to formulate and enforce rules of professional conduct governing all State…Section 6077Requires Supreme Court-approved State Bar professional-conduct rules to bind all State Bar licensees. For a willful breach, the State Bar Court may…Section 6077.5Requires attorneys and employees primarily collecting consumer debts for others to follow debt-collector rules, identify nonlawyer employees, communicate generally only from 8…Section 6078Allows the State Bar Court, after a hearing on legally recognized disciplinary causes, to recommend disbarment or suspension to the Supreme Court…Section 6079.1Establishes appointment, qualification, compensation, and service rules for State Bar Court judges, including six-year terms, at least five years of State Bar…Section 6079.4Establishes that an attorney’s exercise of the Fifth Amendment privilege or any other constitutional or statutory privilege does not constitute failure to…Section 6079.5Requires the board to appoint a California lawyer as chief trial counsel for a four-year term, subject to Senate confirmation, and notify…Section 6080Requires the State Bar Court to keep records of all disciplinary proceedings and, when recommending disbarment or suspension, retain a transcript and…Section 6081Requires the State Bar Court immediately to file with the Supreme Court clerk a certified decision, transcript, and findings when recommending disbarment…Section 6081.1Exempts the State Bar Court from any requirement under the referenced provisions to transcribe oral testimony unless the Supreme Court orders transcription…Section 6082Allows a person complained against, and a person whose reinstatement the State Bar Court may refuse to recommend, to obtain review of…Section 6083Allows a State Bar licensee 60 days to petition the Supreme Court to review, reverse, or modify a disbarment or suspension recommendation…Section 6084Sets a State Bar Court decision or order as final and enforceable when timely review is not sought or is denied, while…Section 6085Requires a person facing State Bar discipline to receive fair notice and an opportunity to defend with evidence, obtain exculpatory evidence after…Section 6085.5Defines three permissible pleas to disciplinary allegations: admission of culpability, denial, and State Bar Court-approved nolo contendere. Before accepting nolo contendere, the…Section 6086Allows the State Bar Board of Trustees, subject to the chapter, to establish by rule the procedural method used in all complaint…Section 6086.1Requires original State Bar disciplinary hearings and records to become public after formal charges, while keeping investigations confidential until formal proceedings begin,…Section 6086.2Requires State Bar admissions, licensing, and specified program-administration records to be available to the Office of Trial Counsel and Office of Investigations…Section 6086.20Prohibits the Chief Trial Counsel from issuing private reprovals to attorneys accused of misconduct beginning January 1, 2025. By April 1, 2024,…Section 6086.5Establishes the State Bar Court to decide specified disciplinary, reinstatement, and inactive-status proceedings using delegated board powers, while governing court records under…Section 6086.65Establishes a State Bar Court Review Department consisting of the Presiding Judge and two Supreme Court-appointed judges, with specified nomination, qualification, discipline,…Section 6086.7Requires courts to notify the State Bar of specified attorney contempt orders, misconduct-based reversals or modifications, judicial sanctions except discovery sanctions or…Section 6086.8Requires a California court to report within 20 days a professional-capacity civil judgment against a State Bar licensee for fraud, misrepresentation, breach…Section 6086.10Requires public-reproval and disciplinary orders against State Bar licensees, and resignations with discipline pending, to include payment of specified State Bar costs,…Section 6086.13Allows a Supreme Court suspension, disbarment, or disciplinary-resignation order to impose monetary sanctions up to $5,000 per violation and $50,000 total, deposited…Section 6086.14Allows the State Bar Board of Trustees to establish an alternative dispute resolution discipline mediation program for complaints not warranting formal investigation…Section 6086.15Requires the State Bar to issue a public Annual Discipline Report by November 30 each year covering discipline-system performance, case inventories, processing…Section 6086.16Requires the State Bar to report to the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees by January 1, 2005, on the status of its…Section 6087Establishes that the chapter does not limit or alter the California Supreme Court’s preexisting power to disbar or discipline State Bar licensees.…Section 6088Allows board rules to deem alleged facts admitted when a party fails to answer, appear at a formal hearing, or deny matters…