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Legal Ethics for New Attorneys: Recent State Bar Attorney Disciplinary Actions, Commonalities of Rules Violations

Legal Ethics for New Attorneys: Recent State Bar Attorney Disciplinary Actions

Commonalities of Rules Violations

By Charles V. Berwanger
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP

In the past several months, the State Bar of California has disbarred or suspended the license to practice law of at least 10 California attorneys. There are common themes threading their way through the disciplinary findings in each of these cases that are important for practitioners to consider. The purpose of this article is to identify some of those themes. Read More