Sections
31 entriesSection 6010Establishes that the State Bar is governed by its board of trustees and that the board holds the powers and duties conferred…Section 6011Requires the board to appoint a California-admitted lawyer as State Bar executive director for four-year renewable terms, serving at the board’s pleasure…Section 6012Requires the board to appoint a California-admitted lawyer as general counsel and chief legal advisor on non-discipline issues for four-year renewable terms,…Section 6013.1Requires the Supreme Court to appoint five attorney members to the State Bar board for four-year terms, with only one additional term…Section 6013.3Requires one attorney board member to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules and one by the Speaker of the Assembly.…Section 6013.5Sets a maximum of six public board members, effective January 1, 2018, who must never have been State Bar licensees or admitted…Section 6013.5.5Extends the specified public-member provisions to persons appointed or reappointed as public members on or after January 1, 2012. The applicability rule…Section 6013.6Prohibits a public-agency employee serving on the State Bar board from losing specified job rights or benefits because of that service, but…Section 6015Requires an attorney board member to be an active State Bar licensee and meet the applicable principal-office condition. Before October 31, 2020,…Section 6016Sets each attorney board member’s term at four years and requires vacancies to be filled only for the remainder of the term.…Section 6016.2Allows each appointing authority to remove its board appointee at any time for continued neglect of legal duties, incompetence, or unprofessional or…Section 6019Defines each board seat that is filled by appointment as a separate office for purposes of making that appointment. The provision requires…Section 6020Establishes the State Bar’s officers as a chair, a vice chair, and a secretary. The provision identifies those three positions as the…Section 6021Requires the Supreme Court to appoint the board chair and vice chair for terms not exceeding two years, with duties beginning after…Section 6023Extends the terms of State Bar officers until their successors are appointed or selected. An officer therefore continues to hold office after…Section 6024Requires the State Bar chair to preside at all State Bar and board meetings, with the vice chair presiding when the chair…Section 6025Allows the board, subject to California law, to formulate and declare rules and regulations it considers necessary or expedient to carry out…Section 6026.7Requires State Bar meetings to comply with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, but exempts the Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission and State Bar…Section 6026.11Requires the State Bar and all of its public records and writings to be subject to the California Public Records Act. The…Section 6027Allows special meetings of the State Bar to be held at the times and places provided by the board. The board therefore…Section 6028Allows the board to use State Bar funds for necessary chapter expenses and generally limits board-member compensation to necessary expenses. Specified public…Section 6029Allows the board to appoint committees, officers, and employees it considers necessary or proper and to set and pay salaries and necessary…Section 6030Requires the board to perform the State Bar’s executive function and enforce the chapter. Allows the State Bar to bring a superior-court…Section 6031Allows the board to support advancement of jurisprudence and improvement of justice administration, but bars board or State Bar evaluations of a…Section 6031.5Prohibits funding the California Lawyers Association with mandatory State Bar fees, while allowing reimbursed support services and State Bar collection of association…Section 6032Allows the State Bar, when collecting annual license fees, to collect voluntary fees for the California Supreme Court Historical Society. The collected…Section 6032.1Allows the State Bar, notwithstanding other law, to collect voluntary donations for California ChangeLawyers at the same time it collects annual State…Section 6032.5Establishes the Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Account in the State Treasury and directs qualifying escheated IOLTA funds deposited there, upon legislative…Section 6033Allows the State Bar to collect voluntary support for nonprofits providing free legal services to persons of limited means and requires funds…Section 6034Requires the State Bar to participate as a state agency in the Interagency Intercept Collections Program to collect unpaid amounts owed to…Section 6034.1Requires any State Bar entity exploring a regulatory sandbox to prioritize consumer protection and access to justice, exclude corporate law-firm ownership and…