State Bar & Bar Associations
Mar. 28, 2023
Move discipline to the courts to restore confidence
California was an early leader in professionalizing the discipline process with employed full-time discipline prosecutors. The system worked relatively well for about fifty years. Then the wheels began to come off.
David C. Carr
Law Office of David C. CarrLegal ethics
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Loyola Law School
The release of the May Report by the State Bar of California was necessary to restore public confidence in the lawyer discipline system. Necessary, but not sufficient.
The report is shocking, even to close observers of the State. While the evidence that Girardi exercised influence to keep the State Bar at bay despite filing hundreds of complaints against him is still almost wholly circumstantial, the May Report outlines those circumstances...
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