California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 5 - Disciplinary Authority of the Board of Governors

• Section 6075.
  In their relation to the provisions of Article 6, concerning the disciplinary authority of the courts, the provisions of this article provide a complete alternative...
• Section 6076.
  With the approval of the Supreme Court, the Board of Trustees may formulate and enforce rules of professional conduct for all members of the State...
• Section 6076.5.
  (a) With the approval of the Supreme Court, the members of the State Bar may formulate by initiative, pursuant to the provisions of this section, rules...
• Section 6077.
  The rules of professional conduct adopted by the board, when approved by the Supreme Court, are binding upon all members of the State Bar.For a...
• Section 6077.5.
  An attorney and his or her employees who are employed primarily to assist in the collection of a consumer debt owed to another, as defined...
• Section 6078.
  After a hearing for any of the causes set forth in the laws of the State of California warranting disbarment, suspension or other discipline, the...
• Section 6079.1.
  (a) The Supreme Court shall appoint a presiding judge of the State Bar Court. In addition, five hearing judges shall be appointed, two by the Supreme...
• Section 6079.4.
  The exercise by an attorney of his or her privilege under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United Sates, or of any other...
• Section 6079.5.
  (a) The board shall appoint a lawyer admitted to practice in California to serve as chief trial counsel. He or she shall be appointed for a...
• Section 6080.
  The board shall keep a record of all disciplinary proceedings. In all disciplinary proceedings resulting in a recommendation to the Supreme Court for disbarment or...
• Section 6081.
  Upon the making of any decision recommending the disbarment or suspension from practice of any member of the State Bar, the board shall immediately file...
• Section 6081.1.
  Nothing in Sections 6080 and 6081 shall require the State Bar Court to transcribe oral testimony unless ordered by the Supreme Court or requested by...
• Section 6082.
  Any person complained against and any person whose reinstatement the board may refuse to recommend may have the action of the board, or of any...
• Section 6083.
  (a) A petition to review or to reverse or modify any decision recommending the disbarment or suspension from practice of a member of the State Bar...
• Section 6084.
  (a) When no petition to review or to reverse or modify has been filed by either party within the time allowed therefor, or the petition has...
• Section 6085.
  Any person complained against shall be given fair, adequate, and reasonable notice and have a fair, adequate, and reasonable opportunity and right:(a) To defend against the...
• Section 6085.5.
  There are three kinds of pleas to the allegations of a notice of disciplinary charges or other pleading which initiates a disciplinary proceeding against a...
• Section 6086.
  The board of trustees, subject to the provisions of this chapter, may by rule provide the mode of procedure in all cases of complaints against...
• Section 6086.1.
  (a) (1) Subject to subdivision (b), and except as otherwise provided by law, hearings and records of original disciplinary proceedings in the State Bar Court shall be...
• Section 6086.2.
  All State Bar records pertaining to admissions, membership, and the administration of the program authorized by Article 14 of this chapter shall be available to...
• Section 6086.5.
  The board of trustees shall establish a State Bar Court, to act in its place and stead in the determination of disciplinary and reinstatement proceedings...
• Section 6086.65.
  (a) There is a Review Department of the State Bar Court, that consists of the Presiding Judge of the State Bar Court and two Review Department...
• Section 6086.7.
  (a) A court shall notify the State Bar of any of the following:(1) A final order of contempt imposed against an attorney that may involve grounds warranting...
• Section 6086.8.
  (a) Within 20 days after a judgment by a court of this state that a member of the State Bar of California is liable for any...
• Section 6086.10.a.
  (a) Any order imposing a public reproval on a member of the State Bar shall include a direction that the member shall pay costs. In any...
• Section 6086.13.
  (a) Any order of the Supreme Court imposing suspension or disbarment of a member of the State Bar, or accepting a resignation with a disciplinary matter...
• Section 6086.14.
  (a) The Board of Trustees of the State Bar is authorized to formulate and adopt rules and regulations necessary to establish an alternative dispute resolution discipline...
• Section 6086.15.
  (a) The State Bar shall issue an Annual Discipline Report by April 30 of each year describing the performance and condition of the State Bar discipline...
• Section 6086.16.
  The State Bar shall report to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary by January 1, 2005, on the status of its regulatory and disciplinary...
• Section 6087.
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting or altering the powers of the Supreme Court of this State to disbar or discipline members...
• Section 6088.
  The board may provide by rule that alleged facts in a proceeding are admitted upon failure to answer, failure to appear at formal hearing, or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018