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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