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Government,
State Bar & Bar Associations

Sep. 5, 2017

Assembly unanimously approves overhaul of the State Bar

The bill would split off the agency’s specialty practice groups, known as sections.

The state Assembly unanimously approved a State Bar overhaul bill that has as its centerpiece the separation of the agency’s specialty practice groups into a private nonprofit.

The bill passed Friday also would eliminate the six elected attorney members of the bar’s Board of Trustees and give the agency authority to re-fingerprint the more than 190,000 active licensees in order to receive alerts about attorney arrests and convictions...

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