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State Bar & Bar Associations

Dec. 3, 2015

Bar President pushes for legal services funding increase

Bar President David Pasternak wants the state to drastically increase its legal services funding.

By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer

State Bar President David Pasternak has begun a concentrated effort to persuade California legislators to immediately increase annual funding for legal services to $50 million.

The roughly $10 million the legislature and governor currently provide in the budget through the Equal Access Fund is not sufficient to serve the more than 8 million Californians who qualify for free...

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