This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on attorneys. It may be cited as the State Bar Act.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6000
General Provisions
Known as the State Bar Act
The act spans §§ 6000–6009 (23 sections).
Applied in 29 court decisions — leading case 40 Cal. 3d 277 - Cohen v. Board of Supervisors (1985)
Most recently applied in 238 Cal. App. 4th 1251 - Golba v. Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (July 2015)
Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 34.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.