The State Bar of California last week said it will shut down five longtime programs representing women, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, the elderly and the disabled in favor of a single, more streamlined commission that is expected to save $250,000 per year. Opponents to the plan say a single group will be more diluted and less representative of each group's unique problems, but State Bar Executive Director Judy Johnson says "we don't necessarily need to preserve a structure we no longer can afford."
November 22, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Over the objection of minority groups, the California State Bar’s efforts to diversify the legal profession will soon be handled by a single council rather than by five separate committees that have existed for 20 years.
But in an appreciative nod to the committees being phased out, State Bar governors on Friday gave them until March 1 to finish any projects already in the works and to offer input into the new council’s goals.
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