HB162 Alabama 2016 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Matt FridyRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2016
- Title
- Attorneys, cause of action for person solicited by attorney to bring lawsuit for purpose of procuring legal services to enrich attorney, Sec. 34-3-25 am'd.
- Description
Existing law prohibits an attorney from soliciting a person to bring a legal action for the purpose of procuring the legal services of the attorney or his or her law firm.
Existing law also prohibits a person from receiving compensation from an attorney who solicits the person to bring a legal action in order to procure the legal services of the attorney or the attorney's law firm.
This bill would provide a cause of action for any person who was solicited by an attorney to bring a legal action for the purpose of procuring the legal services of the attorney or his or her law firm.
- Subjects
- Attorneys
Bill Actions
Indefinitely Postponed
Pending third reading on day 23 Favorable from Judiciary with 1 amendment
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature