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State Bar & Bar Associations

Dec. 8, 2016

State Bar panel debates potential loss of agency's practice groups

Board members wondered why the sections would want to remain a governmental entity rather than a private, nonprofit.

By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer

State Bar board members said Tuesday they understand the desire of the agency's specialty practice groups to separate from the bar, but they questioned why some proponents of the split have suggested the so-called "sections" should remain a governmental entity.

Members of the bar's Executive Committee seemed more receptive to the 16 sections leaving the bar to become a nonp...

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