State Bar & Bar Associations
May 19, 2020
State Bar misled court in request for injunction of LegalMatch, judge says
According to Diane L. Karpman, a legal ethics expert at Karpman and Associates in Los Angeles, the ruling is a big deal, because lawyers can be prosecuted if they are believed to be less than honest and if they are withholding evidence from the court.
After a superior court judge denied the State Bar's request for an emergency injunction against an online lawyer-client matching service, saying the bar's counsel misled the court by withholding information, legal ethics experts question how the bar might discipline its own and what the case means for access to justice efforts.
"I think, when you come in, you have an ethical obligation and a duty of candor to the court," Judge Ethan ...
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