State Bar & Bar Associations
Sep. 1, 2012
Lawyer on a mission to dignify, not disbar, older attorneys
Murray Greenberg, new president of the National Organization of Bar Counsel, is studying ways to put elderly or ill lawyers on "permanent retirement" instead of disbarring them.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Soon after Murray B. Greenberg started working as a lawyer for the State Bar, he was assigned to oversee all the cases in which the bar took over the practices of lawyers grown too old or ill to function or who had died or been disbarred.
"It was quite an eye-opener," he said, "especially solo practitioners not having a safety net for their practices."
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