State Bar & Bar Associations
Oct. 13, 2012
New State Bar president intends to protect the public by helping lawyers, courts
Litigator, law firm managing partner and surf guitarist Patrick M. Kelly becomes the 2012-13 State Bar president Saturday. He will focus on court funding and educating lawyers.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Most every State Bar official these days will tell you the organization is a regulatory body and that its main mission is protecting the public. Patrick M. Kelly, who takes office Saturday as the State Bar's president for 2012-13, agrees with all that. But to Kelly, the bar is more than a strict disciplinarian. Part of protecting the public from lawyers, he believes, is making lawyers b...
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