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State Bar & Bar Associations

Mar. 5, 2011

New Bar Leadership Changes Proposed

Responding to a proposal by the State Bar's president to have the Supreme Court appoint all lawyer members of the bar board, lawyer governors on Wednesday countered with three different proposals to retain lawyer elections.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - In the face of a legislative command to change how the State Bar is governed, lawyers on the bar's Board of Governors pressed to keep elections for the lawyer leadership positions.


The move comes in response to a proposal by the State Bar's president to have the state Supreme Court appoint all lawyer members of the bar board. On Wednesday, lawyer governors countered with t...

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