Title 08 — Business and Professions

There is created an instrumentality of the state known as the Alaska Bar Association, referred to in this chapter as the Alaska Bar. The Alaska Bar shall have a common seal, may sue and be sued, and may, for the purpose of carrying into effect and promoting the objects of the Ala…

Article 2. The Board of Governors and Officers.

The Alaska Bar is governed by the Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar. The board has the powers and duties conferred by this chapter and by the Alaska Bar Rules. Members of the board do not receive a salary.

(a) There is created a Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar to be elected under bylaws and regulations adopted by the board. (b) The board consists of nine active members elected by the active members of the Alaska Bar and three persons appointed by the governor who are not attor…

(a) Two members of the board shall be elected by and from among the members of the association resident in the first judicial district; four members of the board shall be elected by and from among the members of the association resident in the third judicial district; two members…

The active members of the Alaska Bar who are in actual attendance at the association's annual convention shall elect by a majority vote during the convention the association's officers from the membership of the Board of Governors.

(a) The board shall fill a vacancy in the elected membership of the board until the next annual election. (b) The governor shall appoint a member to fill a vacancy in the appointed membership of the board for the unexpired term.

AS 44.62.310 — 44.62.319 (Open Meetings Act) apply to the meetings of the board. Members of the Alaska Bar and the public shall be given 30 days' notice of meetings of the board except for emergency meetings. Meetings of the board shall take place in the state.

(a) Except as may be otherwise provided in this chapter or the Alaska Bar Rules, the board may approve and recommend to the state supreme court rules (1) concerning admission, discipline, licensing, continuing legal education, and defining the practice of law; (2) providing for c…

A member of the Board of Governors each year shall complete the mandatory ethics continuing legal education requirements and the voluntary continuing legal education requirements set out in the Alaska Bar Rules.

(a) The Board of Governors shall annually prepare a report on all matters concerning admissions, discipline of members, and disbarment proceedings, except for those matters defined as confidential by court rule, and notify the legislature that the report is available. (b) The ann…

A bylaw or regulation adopted by the Board of Governors may be modified or rescinded, or a new bylaw or regulation may be adopted, by a vote of the active members of the association under bylaws and regulations to be adopted by the Board of Governors.

The bylaws and regulations adopted by the board or the members of the Alaska Bar under this chapter are not subject to AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).

Article 3. Admission to Alaska Bar.

[Repealed or reserved.]

[Repealed or reserved.]

State and local law enforcement officers shall assist the Board of Governors in the processing of fingerprints of applicants seeking admission to the Alaska Bar Association and shall release the resulting information to the association.

The Board of Governors shall require an applicant for admission to be fingerprinted and to provide the applicant's social security number and provide the fees required by the Department of Public Safety under AS 12.62.160 for criminal justice information and a national criminal h…

[Repealed or reserved.]

(a) The Board of Governors shall administer the bar examination under the Alaska Bar Rules. (b) The Board of Governors may contract with another state or a testing organization for the preparation and grading of a portion of the Alaska Bar examination. (c) The Board of Governors …

Applicants who have not graduated from an accredited law school but are otherwise qualified may take the bar examination if they have completed a clerkship in the manner prescribed by AS 08.08.207.

Article 4. Unlawful Acts. (a) Every person who desires subsequently to qualify as a general applicant for admission to the Alaska Bar without having been graduated from an approved law school shall register as a law clerk as provided by this section. The person shall present sati…

(a) A person may not engage in the practice of law in the state unless the person is licensed to practice law in the state and is an active member of the Alaska Bar. A member of the bar in good standing in another jurisdiction may appear in the courts of the state under the rules…

[Repealed or reserved.]

(a) A person not an active member of the Alaska Bar and not licensed to practice law in the state who engages in the practice of law or holds out as entitled to engage in the practice of law as that term is defined in the Alaska Bar Rules, or an active member of the Alaska Bar wh…

Article 5. General Provisions.

[Repealed or reserved.]

This chapter may be cited as the Alaska Integrated Bar Act.