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Discipline

Feb. 27, 2015

Disciplinary Actions

In 2012, the state Supreme Court rejected and remanded two dozen plea bargains worked out between State Bar prosecutors and lawyers in trouble. Two of those cases are among a batch of disciplinary action that took effect recently.


In June 2012, the state Supreme Court roiled the bar discipline world by rejecting two dozen plea bargains worked out between State Bar prosecutors and lawyers in trouble. The court sent those cases - plus 18 more in August - back instructing the bar court and prosecutors to make sure they better considered the discipline system's sentencing guidelines, known as the standards, before imposing discipline on the lawyers involved. Two of those returned cases, approved by ...

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