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Law Practice

Feb. 9, 2011

On the Restructuring of the State Bar

What is the value of having lawyers on the State Bar's governing board? By Robert C. Fellmeth of the University of San Diego School of Law.


By Robert C. Fellmeth


Joe Dunn had a difficult task. He was working at the California Medical Association, the doctors' trade association. "Joe," the doctors told him, "Here is our plan. You go to your former colleagues in the Legislature and propose that anyone who wants to be a licensed physician has to join our trade association, so CMA will have all the docs in it. They will all have to join!" "What?" Joe asked, worried. &quo...

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