State Bar & Bar Associations
Mar. 4, 2016
State Bar let hundreds of complaints against non-attorneys sit idle
At least 273 claims of unauthorized practice of law sat in drawers without review for months.
By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The State Bar's failure to promptly address all complaints alleging unauthorized practice of law by non-attorneys was more widespread than the nearly 60 uninvestigated claims the agency said it recently learned about.
More than 270 additional such complaints, filed in the last two years, went months without assignment to an intake attorney for review, the bar confirmed in response to a Daily Jour...
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