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State Bar & Bar Associations

Apr. 15, 2011

State Bar Task Force Split on Reform

Despite signals from the Legislature that dramatic change is needed, lawyers on a panel examining ways to revamp how the State Bar governs itself aren't giving up easily on the current system.


By DON J. DeBENEDICTIS


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Despite strong signals from the Legislature that dramatic change is needed, lawyers on a panel examining ways to revamp how the State Bar governs itself aren't giving up easily on the current system.


At a Wednesday meeting, the State Bar's legislatively mandated Task Force on Governance in the Public Interest split on whether lawyers should continue to elect members of its...

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