Jun. 2, 2022
Bar panel proposes expungement of public discipline records
“It seems to me that the idea that any licensing agency can make these records unavailable such that no one will know they exist just isn’t going to hold water,” said Jerry Larkin, the former president of the National Organization of Bar Counsel.
A State Bar commission recommended Wednesday that attorneys’ disciplinary actions on the bar’s website have an expungement timeline because, commission members said, more Black male attorneys have these notations.
Sarah Good, partner at Farella, Braun + Martell LLP and one of the leaders on the group that made the recommendation, said at a hearing, “We need to do this to remediate on behalf of Black men who were done wrong by the State Bar...
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