Former statehouse attorney Fredericka McGee has filed a $2.9 million claim against the State Bar of California, alleging the agency’s leaders illegally backed out of an agreement that would have made her executive director.

In a 12-page narrative accompanying the claim form, McGee, through her lawyer, Pamela Price, said the bar’s board of trustees voted in closed session July 17 to offer her the job and that she and bar representatives had negotiated a $340,891 first-year salary, a Sept. 21 start date and a five-year term.