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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Immigration

Aug. 18, 2020

Licensing nonlawyers to practice immigration law will harm consumers

Recently the State Bar of California approved recommendations by its Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services to change the rules governing delivery of legal services.

Shirin Egodage

Email: shirin@egodage-law.com

Sabrina R. Damast

Founding Attorney
Law Office of Sabrina Damast, Inc.

Phone: (323) 475-8716

Email: sabrina@sabrinadamast.com

Recently the State Bar of California approved recommendations by its Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services (ATILS) to change the rules governing delivery of legal services. One of the changes would enable nonlawyers to offer legal advice and assistance without lawyer involvement. The public was given the opportunity to comment and thousands of comments were received, most of them negative. Yet the State Bar nevertheless plans to push through the AT...

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