Sections
15 entriesSection 6160Defines a law corporation as a corporation registered with the State Bar and holding a currently effective State Bar registration certificate under…Section 6161Requires a law-corporation registration applicant to provide requested organizational and operating documents, identify professional personnel and offices, and show lawful organization and…Section 6161.1Requires every law corporation to renew its registration certificate annually at the time set by the State Bar and to pay the…Section 6161.2Requires all law-corporation registration and renewal fees paid under the specified provisions to be deposited into the State Bar treasury. The State…Section 6162Requires a law corporation, within the time set by State Bar rule, to report in writing any changes in directors, officers, professional-service…Section 6163Requires each law corporation to file verified annual and other required compliance reports and pay the filing fee; late penalties may reach…Section 6165Requires each director, shareholder, and officer of a law corporation, subject to the specified Corporations Code exceptions, to be a licensed person…Section 6166Prohibits income of a law corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a statutorily defined disqualified person from accruing…Section 6167Prohibits a law corporation from doing or failing to do anything that would constitute grounds for discipline of a State Bar licensee,…Section 6168Allows the State Bar to investigate a law corporation’s business and gives the trustees or authorized committee subpoena, oath, witness-examination, and record-production…Section 6169Allows the State Bar to issue a show-cause notice when a law corporation may violate governing law and, after a hearing, recommend…Section 6170Allows any action authorized by the article and taken by the State Bar, its Board of Trustees or committee, or the State…Section 6171Allows the State Bar, with Supreme Court approval, to require law corporations to provide for sale of stock owned by disqualified or…Section 6171.1Sets a sole-shareholder law corporation’s registration certificate to be canceled automatically six months and one day after the shareholder’s death. Allows earlier…Section 6172Allows State Bar licensees to render legal services as officers or employees of a law corporation and to serve as its shareholders,…