Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.1180 · Article 5. Receiverships
Employment of attorney
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A receiver must not employ an attorney without the approval of the court. The application for approval to employ an attorney must be in writing and must state:
(1) The necessity for the employment;
(2) The name of the attorney whom the receiver proposes to employ; and
(3) That the attorney is not the attorney for, associated with, nor employed by an attorney for any party.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.1180 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1904 effective January 1, 2002.
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/three/rule3_1180
- Text hash
- sha256 7697bdffefd1a5c0f04b330c174b6bdfc153db8ca55143b29adf3db36c300c01
- Composed by
- 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
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.