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State Bar & Bar Associations

May 19, 2023

Bar agrees to send 2 ‘snitch rule’ alternatives to Supreme Court

The State Bar Board of Trustees on Thursday agreed to send two alternatives to the Supreme Court that would implement a requirement for attorneys to report each other’s misconduct.

The State Bar Board of Trustees voted 8-3 on Thursday to ask the Supreme Court to approve one of two versions of a rule to require attorneys to report each other’s misconduct, and to make it effective on an expedited basis.

Almost all of the input the bar has received on the proposals from attorneys and bar associations throughout the state has opposed the rule.

Executive Director Leah Wilson expressed a sense o...

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