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California Becomes Latest State to Consider “Foreign Legal Consultant”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

William R. Slomanson*
Affiliation:
Western State University

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1986

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References

1 Report of Special Committee on Registered Foreign Legal Consultants, June 10, 1985 (memorandum submitted to Board of Governors of the California State Bar, a copy of which is on file with the author) [hereinafter cited as Report].

2 Late Filed Res. No. 3, Los Angeles Daily J., Oct. 2, 1985, at 6, col. 2.

The “substantive concerns” have not yet been officially reported, although the editor of the California Lawyer (state bar journal) advises that an article on point will be published in a future issue. It appears that the proposal will be revised in the light of these concerns and resubmitted for another vote at a future state bar convention.

3 Report, supra note 1, at 3.

4 The Special Committee on Registered Foreign Legal Consultants was formed in 1982.

5 See Slomanson, , Foreign Legal Consultant: Multistate Model for Business and the Bar, 39 Albany L. Rev. 199 (1975)Google Scholar.

6 10th Anniversary Nears for Legal Consultants, N.Y.L.J., Jan. 4, 1984, at 1, col. 4.

7 Id. at 2, col. 3. See also Foreign Firms Invade the U.S.: An Asset to Bart, Nat’l L.J., Oct. 29, 1984, at 1.

8 Report, supra note 1, at 1.

9 Id. at 2.

10 Id.

11 Fukuhana, , The Status of Foreign Lawyers in Japan, 17 Japan Ann. Int’l L. 21 (1973)Google Scholar.

12 See, e.g., In re DeSautels, 1 Mass. App. Ct. 787, 789 n.4, 307 N.E.2d 576, 579 n.4 (1974) (describing Soviet practice).

13 See, e.g., Comment, International Legal Practice Restrictions on the Migrant Attorney, 15 Harv. Int’l L.J. 298 (1974) (discussing momentum for establishing special rules regarding foreign lawyer regulation).

14 See, e.g., Comment, Foreign Branches of Law Firms: The Development of Lawyers Equipped to Handle International Practice, 80 Harv. L. Rev. 1284, 1288–97 (1967) (arguing that such restrictions serve neither).

15 Weber, The Asian Connection, Cal. Law., Nov. 1983, at 26, 29 (discussing reciprocity problem).

16 N.Y. Admin. Code tit. 22, §521.1-.5 (Ct. App.), §610.1-.8 (Sup. Ct., 1st App. Dep’t), §692.1–.8 (Sup. Ct., 2d App. Dep’t).

17 See supra note 6.