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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jan. 12, 2011

State Bar Governors Vote to Cut Spending

State Bar officials moved to cut spending by $1.2 million in a pair of actions Friday that include scaling back a somewhat controversial program that helps lawyers with substance-abuse and mental-health problems.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


State Bar officials moved to cut spending by $1.2 million in a pair of actions Friday that include scaling back a somewhat controversial program that helps lawyers with substance-abuse and mental-health problems.


Bar governors voted to reduce annual spending on the Lawyer Assistance Program from the current $2.5 million to about $1.8 million by the end of the year, State Bar President William N...

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