Sections
16 entriesSection 6180Requires notice of cessation of law practice when an attorney practicing in the state dies, resigns, becomes an inactive State Bar licensee,…Section 6180.1Requires the specified notice to contain information required by applicable discipline, resignation, court, or governing rules and to be mailed to clients,…Section 6180.2Allows the superior court, despite prior notice, to assume jurisdiction over an affected attorney’s law practice on its own motion or on…Section 6180.3Requires a verified application for court jurisdiction over a law practice to state facts supporting a specified triggering event and either that…Section 6180.4Requires a hearing and order to show cause, with service by personal delivery or certified or registered mail on the attorney or…Section 6180.5Allows the court to assume jurisdiction over an attorney’s practice when specified events have occurred and court supervision is warranted because unfinished…Section 6180.6Limits the court and any attorney it appoints under the article to the narrow supervisory authority expressly provided. Bars them from approving…Section 6180.7Requires the following: Unless court approval is first obtained, neither the attorney appointed pursuant to this article nor his corporation nor any…Section 6180.8Allows the court to issue appropriate interim orders, with or without notice as it prescribes, when it finds the application more likely…Section 6180.9Allows a court exercising jurisdiction over an affected attorney’s law practice to examine acts by the attorney’s legal representative when a related…Section 6180.10Requires persons examining an affected attorney’s law-practice files and records under the article to preserve lawyer-client privilege and disclose information only as…Section 6180.11Bars liability for instituting or maintaining a proceeding under the article, for acts or omissions performed pursuant to a court order under…Section 6180.12Requires an appointed State Bar licensee to serve without compensation but allows discretionary reasonable State Bar payment for extraordinary necessary time and…Section 6180.13Bars an order made under the article from being appealed and prohibits a petition for a writ from staying the order. A…Section 6180.14Defines “attorney” as a current or former State Bar licensee and “law practice” to include specified individual, partnership, and law-corporation practices when…Section 6185Allows a court-appointed active State Bar licensee serving as practice administrator for a deceased or disabled attorney to take control of accounts,…