By Alaina Lancaster | September 8, 2022
A federal judge turned back a preliminary injunction motion from unnamed members of the bar seeking to prevent the agency from making confidential investigations public in order to avoid liability from a data breach announced in February.
By Cheryl Miller | August 22, 2022
The Legislature used the state bar's annual fee-licensing bill to place new restrictions on an agency that key lawmakers say has lost its focus on attorney discipline.
By Cheryl Miller | August 16, 2022
A state bar committee on Tuesday could not agree on how to proceed with a study of allowing law school students to become lawyers without passing the bar exam.
By Cheryl Miller | August 12, 2022
Bar leaders "are wrong-headed in their priorities and in my view they're misusing funds," said state Sen. Tom Umberg, the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
By Cheryl Miller | August 8, 2022
"While new entrants to the profession increasingly reflect the rich diversity of our state, we still have a long way to go towards the goal of demographic parity," state bar executive director Leah Wilson said.
By Cheryl Miller | August 5, 2022
"I don't think we should cancel this meeting and give up because of a bunch of bullies trying to keep us from the mission, which is to help empower other people," said Patricia Squitiero, member of the Closing the Justice Gap Working Group.
By Cheryl Miller | August 2, 2022
In his response to the state bar, former executive director Joe Dunn rejected claims that he misled agency leaders about a 2013 bill and the costs of his 2014 trip to Mongolia. He also blamed his 2014 firing on a "vendetta" and "internal politics."
By Cheryl Miller | July 11, 2022
Ellin Davtyan, the senior associate general counsel at L.A. Care Health Plan, is expected to join the State Bar of California as general counsel in mid-August.
By Cheryl Miller | July 8, 2022
State Bar prosecutors say Joe Dunn engaged in moral turpitude and breached his financial duties while serving as executive director of the agency in 2013 and 2014.
By Cheryl Miller | June 21, 2022
"Just floating out that [the bar is] going to expand the ability of people to provide legal advice without that accountability piece, to me, is problematic," said Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley.
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