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The State Bar's predecessor was a voluntary state bar association known as the California Bar Association. [8]: xiii The leader of the effort to establish an integrated (official) bar was Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan, who first proposed the concept at the California Bar Association's Santa Barbara convention in September 1917, and provided the California Bar Association with a copy of a Quebec ...
The State Bar Court judges are nominated by a variety of individuals and bodies. Two of its five hearing judges are appointed by the California Supreme Court, and the remaining three are each selected by the Governor, Speaker of the Assembly and Senate Committee on Rules in turn; these judges constitute the Hearing Department, which is the trial level of the State Bar Court. [3]
Margaret Mary Morrow (1974): [131] [132] First female to serve as President of the State Bar of California (1993) Karen S. Nobumoto (c. 1989): [133] First female of color (African/Asian American descent) to serve as the President of the State Bar of California (2001)
State Bar prosecutors moved Friday to disbar David Lira, Girardi's son-in-law, and another former employee, Keith Griffin, for alleged misappropriation of client funds.
The State Bar hiked its executive director's salary to $344,000, more than the governor and attorney general. California State Bar, under scrutiny for Tom Girardi scandal, gives director $43,000 raise
Waste was the first lawyer registered with the State Bar of California. [19] As Chief Justice, he was assigned State Bar Number 1 in 1927 when the State Bar was formed and began registering attorneys and judges.
Cruz Reynoso (1959): [22] [23] First Latino American male admitted to the State Bar of California; Paul C. Lo (1994): [24] [25] First Hmong American male admitted to the State Bar of California; Sergio C. Garcia (2014): [26] First undocumented immigrant male admitted to the State Bar of California
In recognition for his work at the State Bar, Hebert was selected by the San Francisco Daily Journal – San Francisco Legal News as one of California's Top 100 lawyers of 2011. [6] Hebert is a partner with the law firm of Calvo Fisher & Jacob LLP in its San Francisco office.