SACRAMENTO — Mirroring the divisions within their ranks, state bar leaders have released two reports that analyze the lawyer-licensing agency’s chronic problems and reach very different conclusions.
Made public late Tuesday, the majority report of the legislatively mandated Task Force on Governance in the Public Interest acknowledges long-standing criticism of the bar’s disciplinary system and the organization’s reputation among lawmakers “for being unresponsive and resistant” to reforms. But the majority panel declined to recommend sweeping changes, saying “major structural decisions” are better left to ongoing negotiations among the Legislature, the governor’s office and the chief justice.
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