SACRAMENTO — State Bar leaders held a private conference call last week with bar section members to rally opposition to provisions in the annual dues authorization bill, according to the Center for Public Interest Law, a frequent bar critic. The allegations, if true, would constitute an apparent violation of government transparency laws.
In a June 23 letter to bar president David Pasternak and executive director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, CPIL executive Robert Fellmeth accused the two leaders of excluding the public from a June 16 call with the Council of State Bar Sections in which they criticized recent dues bill amendments that would give non-lawyers control of the agency’s board of trustees.
