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Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
State Bar & Bar Associations

Aug. 7, 2017

State Bar promoted attorney accused of misleading federal judge

U.S. District Judge William Alsup recommended that bar lawyer Suzanne Grandt be investigated.

State Bar promoted attorney accused of misleading federal judge
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the State Bar should investigate the conduct of Suzanne Grandt, the bar attorney he accused of making misstatements in his court. The bar recently promoted Grandt and gave her a raise.

The State Bar promoted and gave a 10 percent pay raise to the attorney whom a federal judge recently accused of intentionally misleading him during a hearing.

The agency’s promotion of Suzanne Grandt, a lawyer in the bar’s Office of General Counsel, was announced internally four days after U.S. District Judge William Alsup wrote in an order that he was considering sanctioning the bar because of “inaccuracies in attorney Grandt’s sta...

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