State Bar & Bar Associations
Oct. 27, 2025
State high court rejects bar's plan to cut sanctions, expunge discipline
Justices instead approved only installment-payment clarifications, adopted (with modifications) cross-state license recognition for military personnel and spouses, and appointed Pasadena Assistant City Attorney Alison R. Worthington to the State Bar Court.
The state Supreme Court has rejected a State Bar proposal that would have reduced monetary sanctions on disciplined attorneys.
The proposal would have lowered fines for disbarment from $5,000 to $1,000 and reduced to zero the current $2,500 sanction for a suspension and $1,000 sanction for a resignation with charges pending.
The justices on Wednesday also rejected a State Bar proposal for an automatic, one-time expungement of an attorney's public disciplinary record...
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