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State Bar & Bar Associations

Feb. 8, 2017

Key figures in State Bar case offer dueling narratives

Former Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn and former Chief Trial Counsel Jayne Kim said each other's wrongdoing was to blame for issues that ultimately led to Dunn's whistleblower retaliation lawsuit.

By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES — The two leading figures in the State Bar's fierce internal battle that ultimately led to the firing of Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn each testified Monday that the other's wrongdoing drove the conflict that consumed the agency in recent years.

Dunn testified that former Chief Trial Counsel Jayne Kim illegally removed cases from the bar's backlog of disciplinary complaints ...

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