Law Practice
Dec. 12, 2012
Discipline defenders grumble about State Bar's continuing-education crackdown
Defense lawyers say the State Bar demands harsh discipline for false MCLE compliance reports. But an audit turned up a problem with the reporting form.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Since April, State Bar prosecutors have been working through more than two dozen cases of lawyers who falsely claimed to have completed their continuing education requirements.
But now some discipline defense attorneys are accusing the bar of being too harsh.
"The bar is taking what can only be described as a meat-ax approach to the problem," said San Diego defender David Ca...
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