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State Bar & Bar Associations

Apr. 6, 2006

State Bar Haltingly Moves Toward Democracy

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The State Bar is thinking about expanding the classes of members who can vote in elections for the bar's board of governors or be candidates for that board. It's a worthy effort to democratize the bar, however modest. But within the bar, so far, it has been met with resistance and dissembling.

Forum Column

By Stephen R. Barnett
        
        The State Bar is thinking about expanding the classes of members who can vote in elections for the bar's board of governors or be candidates for that board. It's a worthy effort to democratize the bar, however modest. But within the bar, so far, it has been met with resistance and dissembling.
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