Sections
7 entriesSection 6175Defines “lawyer” broadly to include specified domestic or foreign lawyers and their agents, “client” as a person who employed the lawyer for…Section 6175.3Allows a lawyer acting as fiduciary to sell financial products to an elder or dependent-adult client from the preceding three years only…Section 6175.4Allows a client damaged by a lawyer’s violation of the article to seek actual damages, injunction, restitution, punitive damages, or other proper…Section 6175.5Establishes a violation of the article by a State Bar licensee as grounds for discipline by the State Bar. The disciplinary consequence…Section 6175.6Requires a court to report the name, address, and professional license number of any person it finds in violation of the article…Section 6176Establishes that the article does not limit, reduce, or preclude enforcement of any other obligation, statute, State Bar professional-conduct rule, or court…Section 6177Requires the State Bar’s Annual Discipline Report to state how many complaints against California attorneys allege violations of the article. Also requires…