By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO, CA – Sacramento County District At ...
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Homeless Battle: City of Sacramento Responds to ‘Spurious’ Threats by District Attorney – States City ‘Well-Represented’ if DA Sues
Homeless Battle: City of Sacramento Responds to ‘Spurious’ Threats by District Attorney – States City ‘Well-Represented’ if DA Sues
By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO, CA – Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho—already reported to the State Bar and the state Attorney General for misconduct ...
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Commentary: Leadership Questions State Bar
Commentary: Leadership Questions State Bar
By Robert J. Hansen Led by its Chairman Ruben Duran and Executive Director Leah Wilson, leadership at the ...
By Robert J. Hansen Led by its Chairman Ruben Duran and Executive Director Leah Wilson, leadership at the California State Bar remains under a microscope in wake of the corruption and bribery schemes ...
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Growing Balances in Attorney Trust Accounts Sends Windfall Payments to State Bar
Growing Balances in Attorney Trust Accounts Sends Windfall Payments to State Bar
By Fred Johnson and Susan Bassi At the end of 2022, California attorneys held nearly $8 billion in their ...
By Fred Johnson and Susan Bassi At the end of 2022, California attorneys held nearly $8 billion in their trust accounts. Interest earned on these accounts is paid into the bar’s Interest on Lawyers T ...
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Petition for Antitrust Complaint against State Bar and Chairman Filed and Decided without Complainant’s Knowledge
Petition for Antitrust Complaint against State Bar and Chairman Filed and Decided without Complainant’s Knowledge
By Robert J. Hansen San Diego entrepreneur Justin S. Beck filed an antitrust case with four volumes of ev ...
By Robert J. Hansen San Diego entrepreneur Justin S. Beck filed an antitrust case with four volumes of evidentiary exhibits against the California State Bar and its Chairman Ruben Duran on September 2 ...
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State Supreme Court Approves State Bar Rule Encouraging Attorneys to Report Misconduct
State Supreme Court Approves State Bar Rule Encouraging Attorneys to Report Misconduct
By Robert J. Hansen The Supreme Court of California approved modifying the State Bar of California’s rule ...
By Robert J. Hansen The Supreme Court of California approved modifying the State Bar of California’s rule relating to professional conduct on Thursday. This rule requires attorneys to report to the St ...
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State Bar Seeks Disbarment of Girardi Attorneys
State Bar Seeks Disbarment of Girardi Attorneys
State Bar seeks to disbar Girardi’s son-in-law and former partner for defrauding clients by Robert J. Han ...
State Bar seeks to disbar Girardi’s son-in-law and former partner for defrauding clients by Robert J. Hansen The State Bar of California is seeking to disbar former Girardi-Keese attorneys David Lira ...
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Unpunished Prosecutorial Misconduct in California Focus of Major Report by Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Unpunished Prosecutorial Misconduct in California Focus of Major Report by Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO, CA – A comprehensive, 43-page report rel ...
By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO, CA – A comprehensive, 43-page report released here Tuesday suggests misconduct by prosecutors is largely unregulated in California, des ...
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State Bar Suggests Implementing Rule Compelling Attorneys to Report Misconduct
State Bar Suggests Implementing Rule Compelling Attorneys to Report Misconduct
By Michael McCutcheon, Zainab Antepli and Marisol Franco LOS ANGELES, CA - The State Bar of California Bo ...
By Michael McCutcheon, Zainab Antepli and Marisol Franco LOS ANGELES, CA - The State Bar of California Board of Trustees late last week announced a 45-day public comment period for two alternatives to ...
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Tainted Trials, Tarnished Headlines, Stolen Justice – Part Four
Tainted Trials, Tarnished Headlines, Stolen Justice – Part Four
Part Four: Nonprofit and First Republic Bank Help Hide Money from Silicon Valley Ex-Husbands This is part ...
Part Four: Nonprofit and First Republic Bank Help Hide Money from Silicon Valley Ex-Husbands This is part four of an ongoing investigation. It is suggested, to begin with, Part One: The Forgotten Jour ...
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Commentary: California Has to Figure Out a Way to Hold Prosecutors Accountable
Commentary: California Has to Figure Out a Way to Hold Prosecutors Accountable
There is a rare occurrence happening in Texas, where John Jackson, the Texas prosecutor who convicted Cam ...
There is a rare occurrence happening in Texas, where John Jackson, the Texas prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham of murdering his family by setting his own house on fire, is now facing ch ...
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Bar Implements New Ethics Rules for Prosecutors
Bar Implements New Ethics Rules for Prosecutors
One of the biggest complaints in the criminal justice system is over the role of prosecutors – who on the ...
One of the biggest complaints in the criminal justice system is over the role of prosecutors – who on the one hand are supposed to represent the People of the state, but also operate as partisan advoc ...
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Commentary: State Bar Still Lacks Teeth in Countering Prosecutorial Misconduct
Commentary: State Bar Still Lacks Teeth in Countering Prosecutorial Misconduct
Kern County remains one of the more problematic counties in terms of its criminal justice system. On Thu ...
Kern County remains one of the more problematic counties in terms of its criminal justice system. On Thursday, the State Bar sent out a press release announcing that a Deputy DA in Kern County who fa ...
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My View: State Bar Extracts Its Pound of Flesh From Parish
My View: State Bar Extracts Its Pound of Flesh From Parish
We learned this week that the State Bar Court Review Department had reserved a ruling from a State Bar Co ...
We learned this week that the State Bar Court Review Department had reserved a ruling from a State Bar Court Hearing Department judge who found that former Yolo County Deputy DA Clinton Parish violate ...
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Former Candidate Disciplined by State Bar Court for False Accusations in 2012 Judicial Race
Former Candidate Disciplined by State Bar Court for False Accusations in 2012 Judicial Race
Last week, the State Bar Court Review Department said Clint Parish made the false charge against his oppo ...
Last week, the State Bar Court Review Department said Clint Parish made the false charge against his opponent, a sitting Yolo County Superior Court judge, with reckless disregard for the truth. The co ...
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