Legal Services Consumer Protection Act Offers Needed Safeguards

Our State Bar's President-Elect says

The petition asks the Court, which has jurisdiction over the practice of law in the state, to take two actions: 1) Adopt a new rule to clearly define the what constitutes the "practice of law" for consumer protection purposes; and, 2) Create an administrative system to enforce the new rule.

Paragraph 12 of the Petition says this administrative system would include a Legal Services Office of Consumer Protection in the current Office of Legal Regulation, paid for by an increase in the OLR assessment.