Passage Of SB 766 Opens Up Opportunities For Foreign Attorneys To Participate In International Arbitration In California.

    An excellent article by Eric Z. Chang appearing in California Litigation –The Journal of the Litigation  Section of the CLA, Vol. 31,No. 2 (2018), p. 27, explains how an ambiguity in the law as to whether foreign attorneys could participate in international arbitration in California has been cleared up by the passage of SB 766. The problem had been uncertainty as to whether foreign attorneys who participated in international arbitration in California were engaging in the unauthorized practice of law. With the legislative fix now in place, Chang sees a bright new future for expanding the large market for international arbitration in California.