SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHINESE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 15, 2008 The Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association ("SCCLA") annually awards seven to ten $1,000 Scholarships and three to four $2,000 Fellowships to local...

We Need Your Support! Since 1987, SCCLA has sponsored the Holiday Food Basket program in collaboration with CSC. This year the goal is to provide over 200 families in the Chinatown area with a holiday food basket. Recipients come from various ethnic backgrounds and are pre-selected by CSC...

(This article was written for and printed in the Daily Journal) On April 20, President Bush signed into law the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, which amends various parts of federal bankruptcy law. Within the act, Congress clearly distinguished between the...

SCCLA's Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) Committee is making a general call for leads to victims of UPL's. At this time we are interested in persons posing as lawyers and law centers in the area of immigration. Why immigration? Because there are specific statutes on this issue, and it is our...

In the early summer of 2000, the Bankruptcy Committee of the Commercial and Bankruptcy Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association formed a committee to study the unlicenced practice of law by paralegals and document preparation preparers before the Bankruptcy Courts in the Central District...