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State Bar & Bar Associations

Feb. 25, 2016

State Bar spent $413K investigating Dunn, leak of report

The spending to examine complaints against the former executive director and the leak of an outside firm's investigative report was revealed in response to a public-records request.

By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The State Bar has revealed it paid Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP $358,559 from its general fund to investigate internal complaints from high-level employees about former Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn and other related matters in 2014.

The bar paid the Sacramento law firm Van Dermyden Maddux an additional $55,604 in general-fund monies to probe the leak to the media of the report compiled by ...

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