Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
State Bar & Bar Associations
Apr. 14, 2016
Why the rush to dissolve the bar?
Making hasty decisions on limited information, when there is no reason to do so, is rarely the best way to produce positive change.
Stephen M. Duvernay
Phone: (916) 447-4900
Email: steve@benbrooklawgroup.com
Notre Dame Law School; Notre Dame IN
Last week a trustee of the State Bar of California proposed that the state Legislature dissolve the bar. In its place, a new state agency would assume the admission and discipline functions. All other bar functions (volunteer sections, publishing, education, public benefit activity) would end, unless some non-governmental actors voluntarily assumed them. We think this is a solution in search of a problem. And we question the need for an abrupt abandonment of the bar's task force process on...
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