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State Bar & Bar Associations

Mar. 15, 2017

State Bar delays antitrust policy after legislative criticism

The bar back off a proposed policy due to concerns from the Assembly Judiciary Committee that it did not acknowledge or address the risk of antitrust violations.

By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The State Bar's recent decision to delay action on a new antitrust policy was prompted by the Assembly Judiciary Committee expressing disappointment about the proposal to State Bar Executive Director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker.

Alison Merrilees, chief counsel of the legislative committee, wrote in an email to Parker last Thursday that the agency's draft policy "does not app...

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