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Nov. 27, 2017

State Bar struggling to fill positions in attorney discipline unit

The agency’s financial monitor highlighted the hiring issues in a new report.

State Bar leaders have said protecting the public from unethical lawyers is a top priority, but the agency is struggling to fill positions in its attorney discipline unit, according to a recent report given to the state Supreme Court.

Roughly 12 percent of the positions in the bar’s Office of Chief Trial Counsel were vacant as of earlier this month, the bar’s court-appointed financial monitor for 2017 wrote in the Nov. 20 document.<...

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