State Bar & Bar Associations
Mar. 15, 2011
Bar's Top Cop Cutting Discipline Backlog
Beset by backlogs and critics, the State Bar's new top prosecutor has launched new programs and new approaches to get tough on the worst cases and get rid of old ones.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Last fall, the State Bar discipline prosecutor handling defense attorney Jerome Fishkin's oldest case called to talk settlement. Since the case had lingered since 2004, Fishkin asked, "Why now?" The prosecutor answered, "Jim Towery called me up and told me to move it."
San Jose litigator James E. Towery arrived as the State Bar's chief discipline prosecutor in August...
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