California Business and Professions Code

§ 6256

BPC § 6256 Effective Jan 1, 2026Div. 3 · Ch. 4 · Art. 17

Statute text

(a)An attorney, or the attorney’s immediate family, retained by a consumer shall not have a financial interest in a consumer legal funding company offering consumer legal funding, and shall not provide consumer legal funding directly to a consumer.

(b)Any attorney who has referred the consumer to the consumer’s retained attorney shall not have a financial interest in a consumer legal funding company offering consumer legal funding to that consumer.

(c)An attorney retained by a consumer shall not disclose any privileged information to a legal funding company without the written consent of the consumer. Disclosing information to a legal funding company at the consumer’s request shall not otherwise void the attorney-client privilege.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 565, Sec. 3. (AB 931) Effective January 1, 2026.