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State Bar & Bar Associations

Nov. 12, 2010

Task Force Revamps State Bar Governance

Under orders from the Legislature, the State Bar has begun to explore how lawyers govern themselves and even whether they should do it at all.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Under orders from the Legislature, the State Bar has begun to explore how lawyers govern themselves and even whether they should do it at all.


In an all-day meeting Tuesday, several members of a special governance task force suggested that California lawyers may have to give up their right to elect the State Bar Board of Governors and turn leadership selection over to the state Supreme Court or...

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