SACRAMENTO — Employees in the California State Bar’s Office of Chief Trial Counsel on Wednesday cast an overwhelming vote of “no confidence” in department leader Jayne Kim, signaling opposition to bar leaders’ plans to appoint the top prosecutor to another four-year term.
Seventy-six percent of those who cast ballots in the two-hour election period indicated no support for Kim, according to an employee who was familiar with the vote tally. Approximately 200 attorneys, investigators, secretaries and other OCTC workers in the bar’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices were eligible to participate in the election, said Lita Abella, president of the workers’ union, the State Bar of California Association.
