Discipline
May 15, 2002
Justices Reject Bar's Whistleblower Rule
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has rejected a hard-won proposal to change lawyer ethics rules to guide government lawyers who might "blow the whistle" on errant superiors.
The court's action puts the State Bar in a quandary, because it had hammered out the proposed amendment on instructions from the Legislature, which itself was responding to the case of state Department of Insurance lawyer Cindy Ossias, who blew the w...
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