What exceptions have been made to an attorney who fails to disclose to his client that he is not a local license holder?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Birbrower, Montalbano,Condon & Frank v. Superior Court, 49 Cal.App.4th 801, 56 Cal.Rptr.2d 857 (Cal. App. 1996):

A third exception has been made in a "few cases" where the attorney "makes a full disclosure to his client of his lack of local license and does not conceal or misrepresent the true facts." (11 A.L.R.3d, 3[b], p. 910.) One of the three cases cited is Spanos v. Skouras Theatres Corporation, supra, 235 F.Supp. 1, which also employed the first two exceptions, including the exception for practice

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