
Time to check your licensure status….before someone else does. An inactive bar status may result in the loss of attorney-client privilege:
“Ruling that a corporation did not take reasonable precautions to confirm in-house counsel’s authority to practice law, a federal magistrate judge from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected the corporation’s assertion of attorney-client privilege for communications involving its in-house counsel who was an “inactive” member of the State Bar of California.”
[via In-House Counsel’s Inactive Bar Status Causes Loss of Privilege]