Discipline
May 16, 2015
Bar's new discipline standards offer guidance on punishing lawyer misconduct
Seeking to increase public protection, the revised version of the sentencing guidelines for attorney discipline matters tackle specific ethical violations not listed previously. Not everyone is pleased.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The brand-new version of the State Bar's discipline standards deserves more attention
than earlier ones, experts say.
The standards are, more or less, the sentencing guidelines for California's lawyer
discipline system. Although they are not binding, the State Bar Court and bar prosecutors
regularly repe...
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