State Bar & Bar Associations
Oct. 18, 2019
State Bar struggles to review complaints in a timely manner
The agency says allowing the filing of online complaints and launching a new case management system has created challenges.
The State Bar is struggling to review attorney misconduct complaints in a timely manner as a result of what the agency’s top prosecutor recently called a “perfect storm of events.”
The bar’s goal is for the complaints it receives to be either forwarded for investigation or closed within 60 days. But just 54% of the cases that left the agency’s intake unit in September met that internal benchmark.
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