California Business and Professions Code

§ 6043.5

BPC § 6043.5Div. 3 · Ch. 4 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Every person who reports to the State Bar or causes a complaint to be filed with the State Bar that an attorney has engaged in professional misconduct, knowing the report or complaint to be false and malicious, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b)The State Bar may, in its discretion, notify the appropriate district attorney or city attorney that a person has filed what the State Bar believes to be a false and malicious report or complaint against an attorney and recommend prosecution of the person under subdivision (a).

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1639, Sec. 2.