State Bar & Bar Associations
Oct. 18, 2012
In first of 24 discipline cases returned by justices, State Bar Court takes hint to get tougher
Ruling in the first of 24 disciipline plea deals remanded by the state Supreme Court, a State Bar judge imposed a much tougher sanction on a Rolling Hills Estates attorney.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Discipline defense attorneys and State Bar prosecutors weren't exactly sure why the state Supreme Court rejected 24 ethics plea bargains in June, but many legal observers believed the court wanted the bar to get tougher on wrongdoers.
That now seems to be the lesson a judge has followed in the first of the 24 returned cases to be decided after a State Bar Court trial.
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