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State Bar & Bar Associations

Nov. 20, 2014

Fired State Bar director misled board on a host of issues, internal report states

The report characterizes former Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn as an untrustworthy leader whose explanations were not believed even by the attorneys hired by State Bar trustees to conduct an inquiry.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn misled the State Bar Board of Trustees on a range of issues from overseas travel expenses to the views of state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on the sale of the bar's San Francisco headquarters, according to an investigative report prepared for the board.


The report, delivered to the Board of Trustees in late October, characterized Dunn as an untrus...

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