History
Many LDAs view their professional history as descending directly from that of the "scribe," or "scrivener" (i.e., a "learned writer"); in fact, although California became the first (and still the only) state to formally regulate the profession, the first licensing proposal was the Oregon Scrivener's Act, introduced in the Oregon legislature in 1985. The terms "legal scrivener" and "independent paralegal" were commonly used, beginning in the late 1970s, and up until 1994. In that year, the Bankruptcy Reform Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Among other provisions, it banned the use of the word "legal," in any form, to describe the services provided by non-attorney document preparers, and also specifically created the term "bankruptcy petition preparer." This forced many LDAs who assisted with bankruptcies to search for new terms to describe their profession.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“I assure you that in our next class we will concern ourselves solely with the history of Egypt, and not with the more lurid and non-curricular subject of living mummies.”
—Griffin Jay, and Reginald LeBorg. Prof. Norman (Frank Reicher)
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)