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State Bar & Bar Associations

Feb. 11, 2011

Proposal Calls for State Bar Changes

California lawyers would no longer elect other lawyers to run the State Bar under a proposal put forward by the bar's president. Instead, the state Supreme Court would appoint lawyer members of a new and smaller bar Board of Governors.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


California lawyers would no longer elect other lawyers to run the State Bar under a proposal put forward by the bar's president. Instead, the state Supreme Court would appoint lawyer members of a new and smaller bar Board of Governors.


The proposal from President William N. Hebert is the first concrete response to a demand from the Legislature that the bar take a sharp look at how it govern...

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