Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
State Bar & Bar Associations
Dec. 20, 2014
Considerations for the State Bar board
On the agenda for the Board of Trustees' regular meeting Friday is a discussion item proposing the appointment of a special commission to evaluate and recommend improvements to the State Bar.
Teresa J. Schmid
Director
American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility
Email: teresa.schmid@schmidwatsonlaw.com
Teresa is a professional responsibility attorney and consultant in management and public policy. A former executive director for the State Bar of Arizona and the Oregon State Bar, and former assistant chief trial counsel for the State Bar of California, she is the secretary for the Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee for the Los Angeles County Bar Association. The views expressed are her own.
On Dec. 12, the State Bar of California announced that it is working with the California state auditor on an independent examination of the bar in 2015. The state auditor performs similar reviews of the State Bar bi-annually as a matter of course, and the resulting reports provide a candid and continuously open window to the organization.
The next one may be different. The bar's announcement reports that Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, requested that the audit "investigate,...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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