SAN FRANCISCO—A draft report released by a California State Bar task force Thursday concluded that the organization is hamstrung by ineffective governance and struggles to effectively protect the public from bad lawyers. But it shied away from proposing drastic reforms like splitting the bar in two.
The 24-page report of the bar’s Task Force on Governance in the Public Interest, which is slated to be finalized in the next two days, in fact makes no firm recommendations for how to overhaul the body. Instead, it puts forward a list of possible reforms, while making clear that some options received less support than others.
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