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Law Practice

Dec. 17, 2016

Lawyers are breaking bad left and right

"Breaking bad" means "raising hell," at least according to Vince Gilligan. In that case, lawyers in California are breaking bad more and more these days.

Lori Weinberg Kinsella

"Breaking bad" means "raising hell," at least according to Vince Gilligan, creator of the TV series "Breaking Bad," in a 2010 interview. Hey says it was a Southern colloquialism he grew up with. UrbanDictionary.com defines it as "to challenge conventions, to defy authority and to skirt the edges of the law."

Lawyers in California are breaking bad more and more these days. According to the recently released statistics from the State Bar of California's Annual Discipline Report, the nu...

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