Cal. Rules of Court, rule 9.24 · Chapter 3. Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings
Professional Responsibility Examination
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Professional Responsibility Examination following suspension
Any order suspending a licensee from the practice of law, or any order in which suspension is stayed and the licensee is placed on probation, may further require the licensee to demonstrate that they know, understand, and can apply the principles of legal ethics by passing a professional responsibility examination.
(b) Inherent jurisdiction over practice of law
Nothing in this rule may be construed as affecting the power of the Supreme Court to exercise its inherent jurisdiction over the practice of law in this state.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 9.24 adopted effective December 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/system/files?file=file/roc-title-9_0.pdf
- Text hash
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- 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
- The Judicial Council's page for this rule answered with its access-denied page on 2026-10-22 (18:34:04Z and 19:41:16Z); the text is read from the Council's PDF of the title alone.
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