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State Bar & Bar Associations

May 18, 2013

State Bar may try to raise dues to reimburse clients cheated by their lawyers

Lawyers may soon have to pay $40 more in annual State Bar dues thanks to their unscrupulous colleagues.


By Saul Sugarman


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers may soon have to pay $40 more in annual State Bar dues thanks to their unscrupulous colleagues.


A State Bar fund used to reimburse victims of thieving attorneys is at risk of drying up, stemming from a waterfall of discipline actions against lawyers who ripped off clients by running loan modification scams in 2008 and onward.


State Bar Executive Director Joseph L. D...

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