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State Bar & Bar Associations

Feb. 25, 2015

Bar may ditch special unit to chase unauthorized practice of law

Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn last fall formed a new enforcement unit within the bar to pursue the unauthorized practice of law. Now, a bar board committee is scheduled to recommend that the unit be eliminated.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


State Bar leaders are taking steps to abandon a special effort to go after nonlawyers practicing law, particularly those targeting immigrants.


Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn last fall formed a new enforcement unit within the bar to pursue the unauthorized practice of law, to be supervised by a new UPL oversight committee of the bar's Board of Trustees. The unit was to focus initially on ...

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