By Halie Turigliatti At the Committee of Bar Examiners’ (CBE) meeting on January 31, 2020, the Committee considered staff’s recommendation that CBE issue a notice of intent to terminate the California State Bar’s accreditation of Pacific Coast University School of Continue reading
By Christine Lambert On January 17, 2020, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved California’s Veterinary Medical Board’s (VMB) proposed emergency rulemaking to amend sections 2070 and 2071, Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR) to increase licensing Continue reading
By Madeline Rojer At the State Bar Board of Trustees’ January 24, 2020 meeting, the State Bar’s interim Executive Director, Donna Hershkowitz, announced in her Executive Director Report that in 2020, the State Bar will highlight and focus on Goal Continue reading
By Strider Kachelein SB 378 (Wiener), as amended January 21, 2020, is a two-year bill that would add sections 592, 748, 776.7, 911.3, and 2111.5 to the Public Utilities Code to impose numerous requirements related to an electrical investor-owned utility’s Continue reading
By Rayne Brown On November 7, 2019, the Department of Managed Health Care’s (DMHC) Financial Solvency Standards Board held its quarterly meeting in Sacramento. At the meeting, DMHC Acting General Counsel, Sarah Ream previewed for the Board four regulations that Continue reading
By Thomas Burke AB 1140 (Stone), as amended January 23, 2020, is a two-year bill, originally introduced February 21, 2019, that would add section 22252.2 to the Business and Professions Code to require tax preparers to provide consumers with written Continue reading
By Mariela Romo On December 19, 2019, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the Contractors’ State License Board’s (CSLB) proposed emergency regulations to amend section 811, Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR) to raise certain CSLB Continue reading
By Katie Abajian On October 16, 2019, SmileDirectClub, and its owner, Jeffrey Sulitzer, D.M.D., a dentist licensed to practice in California, filed a complaint in the Central District of California against an investigator, the Executive Officer, and all individual Board Continue reading
By Alaina Dye On January 24, 2020, the State Bar Board of Trustees voted to approve proposed amendments to State Bar Rule 2.2 and to repeal Rules 2.3, and 2.4 regarding the information attorneys must report to the Bar as Continue reading
By Marie McDonald Hulen On January 28, 2020, the California Department of Insurance (the Department) held a pre-notice workshop in Los Angeles to hear public feedback on a proposed regulation that would change the way auto insurers offer discounts to Continue reading
