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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jul. 24, 2012

Diversity, problem-solving goals for new State Bar president

Patrick M. Kelly , who will become State Bar president in October, wants to expand on the bar's efforts to ensure lawyers are serving the public's interest.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Over the past year and more, under pressure from the Legislature, leaders of the State Bar have stressed that their priority is to protect the public from bad or incompetent lawyers. The bar has sped up discipline prosecutions, targeted lawyers who fumble their continuing education and probed how to ensure brand-new lawyers know what they're doing.


Patrick M. Kelly, who will become State Ba...

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