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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jan. 9, 2018

ABA president defends judge vetting, favors bar exam changes

Hilarie Bass, president of the American Bar Association, told the Daily Journal she wants a probe into what kinds of testing makes better lawyers and also defends judge-vetting as nonpartisan.

ABA president defends judge vetting, favors bar exam changes
ABA President Hilarie Bass, right, at a 2013 women's business forum with California Court of Appeal Justice Lee Smalley Edmon.

NEWPORT BEACH — Hilarie Bass, president of the American Bar Association, was in California for the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in San Diego. Before a reception hosted last week by the Orange County office of Greenberg Traurig LLP, the law firm where she is a partner and co-president, Bass talked to Daily Journal Editor David Houston about the state of legal education, how the ABA could help President Donald J. Trump vet judges and what she is d...

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