SACRAMENTO — In late January 2014, a group of six executives and trustees from the State Bar of California embarked on a mission to protect the public from unscrupulous lawyers—by traveling to El Salvador.
While there, the bar president, the executive director and a bar employee classified as a public information officer signed an “accord” with the nation’s foreign affairs minister pledging to work together to educate Salvadorans living in California about available legal resources. The two-page agreement carried no legal weight; it’s unclear if the American signatories had any authority to sign an international pact anyway.
