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Discipline

Aug. 8, 2002

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Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Health professionals say 20 percent of California attorneys have a substance abuse problem. Other experts estimate that 25 percent have an emotional or psychological impairment. Many attorneys involved in the State Bar discipline program, such as State Bar prosecutors, judges and defense counsel, believe that half of the attorneys disciplined have one of those problems.

        Dicta Column
        
        By JoAnne Earls Robbins
        
        Health professionals say 20 percent of California attorneys have a substance abuse problem. Other experts estimate that 25 percent have an emotional or psyc...

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