State Bar & Bar Associations
Dec. 2, 2016
State Bar's practice groups pursue split from agency
The so-called "sections" are exploring the best way to no longer be under the bar's auspices for a variety of reasons.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The State Bar's specialty practice groups, known as sections, are actively exploring breaking away from the embattled agency.
The sections are frustrated with the bar limiting the type of events they can host, having to comply with the state's open meeting law, and rising overhead costs.
Supporters of a split also have pointed to the bar's funding crisis, the agency's total ban on alcohol s...
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