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Cal. Rules of Court, rule 10.702 · Chapter 3. Subordinate Judicial Officers

Subordinate judicial officers: practice of law

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)

A subordinate judicial officer may practice law only to the extent permitted by the Code of Judicial Ethics.

Notes and commentary — not rule text

History

Rule 10.702 renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 6.665 effective January 1, 2003.

Source of truth

Edition
As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Official file
https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/ten/rule10_702
Text hash
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compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph

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