SACRAMENTO – Negotiations over the contentious state bar dues bill broke down Thursday night, increasing the chances the Supreme Court will get involved in setting member fees, at least temporarily, in 2017.
The bill’s author, Assemblyman Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley, said a meeting with Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and Senate Judiciary Chairwoman Hannah-Beth Jackson ended in a stalemate over two key issues. Cantil-Sakauye and Jackson remain opposed to Assembly-backed language that would create a non-lawyer majority on the bar’s board of trustees and a commission charged with studying a proposal to split the organization in half, Stone said.
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