State Bar & Bar Associations
Feb. 27, 2013
State Bar seeks OK to shift to bare-bones style of writing discipline accusations
Discipline prosecutors want to abandon detailed complaints in favor of stripped-down "notice pleadings," but the defense bar is fighting back.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
State Bar prosecutors are moving to strip down the complaints they file against lawyers to bare-bones allegations rather than detailed factual statements, but discipline defense attorneys plan to fight back.
The bar Board of Trustees is expected next week to call for public comment on whether to change bar rules to allow "notice pleading, consistent with that used in criminal procedure&quo...
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