The State Bar of Texas and Steve Fischer, who gathered enough petition signatures to become a candidate for State Bar president-elect, both claim victory after a March 19 Texas attorney general opinion.
The Bar requested the AG opinion, arguing that a petition candidate must follow the Bar’s election rules, which set candidate qualifications, regulate campaign activities, impose spending limits and more. Fischer, the second petition candidate in Bar history, took issue with rules that prohibited him from being a member of the State Bar’s board of director while running for president-elect.
