California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §5499.30: (a) Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization, or association which prints, displays, publishes, distributes, or broadcasts or causes or permits to be advertised, printed, displayed

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

Anyone advertising workers' compensation legal services must include the name of at least one associated attorney in all advertising. Violation is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year jail and/or up to $10,000 fine.

Read the full statutory text
(a) Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization, or association which prints, displays, publishes, distributes, or broadcasts or causes or permits to be advertised, printed, displayed, published, distributed, or broadcast any advertising which purports to provide legal services for obtaining workers’ compensation benefits shall include the name of at least one attorney associated with the individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization, or association in all such advertising. (b) As used in this section, the term “legal services” includes any service which refers potential clients to any attorney. (c) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both.

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