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State Bar & Bar Associations

May 14, 2007

Panel Delays Vote on Program to Help Disciplined Attorneys

SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial proposal to tighten a State Bar program for disciplined attorneys with substance-abuse or mental-health problems has been put on hold, at least until this summer.

By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial proposal to tighten a State Bar program for disciplined attorneys with substance-abuse or mental-health problems has been put on hold, at least until this summer.
      Prompted by the concerns of a group of discipline defense attorneys, lawyers who represent other attorneys before the State Bar, the Board of Governors...

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