| This bill creates and regulates the profession of legal |
| document technician. A legal document technician is a person who, |
| for compensation, provides a legal form to a client or fills in, |
| files or serves a legal form pursuant to a specific request by a |
| client. Under this bill, a legal document technician may not |
| provide advice, explanation, opinion or recommendation to a |
| client concerning legal rights, remedies, defenses, options, |
| strategies or selection of forms or any other service that the |
| legal document technician is not specifically authorized to |
| provide. In addition to specifying the types of services that |
| legal document technicians may provide, the bill enacts penalties |
| for legal document technicians who provide unauthorized services. |