SACRAMENTO — Lawmakers on Tuesday took aim at the State Bar of California, comparing the agency to a sinking ship and equating bar leaders’ repeated promises of change to the cartoon character Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown once again.
“I’m convinced this year that the state bar is the Titanic,” Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, told colleagues on the Judiciary Committee. Chiu, a former civil rights attorney, called the bar’s new roster of executives “well-meaning” but said the “organization is too far gone at this point” to avoid significant changes by the Legislature.
