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Sep. 5, 2013

Catherine D. Purcell

State Bar judge Catherine Purcell finds legal ethics intellectually compelling and important.

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Catherine D. Purcell
State Bar Court
Board of Parole Hearings

By Emily Green

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The notion of reinvention is a powerful one. Catherine D. Purcell, a State Bar judge who metes out discipline to unscrupulous lawyers, takes a more skeptical view.

In 2011, she wrote a dissenting opinion opposing her colleagues' decision to support disgraced journalist Stephen Glass' efforts to become a licensed attorney. Purcell rejected Glass' claim that he was rehabilitated and woul... (continued)

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