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Jul. 12, 2017

State Bar says re-fingerprinting attorneys will cost more than $9M

The agency says it is unclear who will cover the costs of the effort that would enable the bar to get attorney arrest and conviction notifications.

State Bar says re-fingerprinting attorneys will cost more than $9M
Staff under the direction of Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, executive director of the State Bar, have told bar trustees that re-fingerprinting the state’s active lawyers would cost $9 million. It is unclear who will have to pay those costs.

The State Bar estimates it will cost at least $9.3 million to re-fingerprint the roughly 190,000 active attorneys in California, an initiative that would enable the agency to be notified when those lawyers are arrested or convicted.

“At this point it is not clear who will bear these costs — the State Bar or licensed attorneys or some combination of both,” two bar officials wrote in a recent memo to the agency’s Board of Trustees.

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