SACRAMENTO — Lawyers’ annual Bar dues bills are already chock full of voluntary check-off boxes that funnel money to various causes. Now lawmakers want to add another.
Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, has introduced legislation that would ask California attorneys to contribute to the Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program though donations via their annual Bar bills. The Legislature created the program years ago to help repay the student loans—up to $11,000—of 3,000 new attorneys who agree to practice in certain public interest areas of the law, including district attorneys’ offices and legal services for the poor.
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