by Megan Zavieh | Jun 8, 2012 | Blog, California State Bar Defense
I saw this quote today and immediately thought of my work as a State Bar defense attorney. Litigation always involves looking backward, and I think that is part of why it’s exhausting for the litigants. We are so much better off moving forward in all aspects...
by Megan Zavieh | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog, California State Bar Defense
Every year thousands of attorneys find themselves the subject of a State Bar complaint. While the Bar does not publish statistics on the basis of these complaints, it’s clear from reading the ultimate discipline reports that a great many of these complaints...
by Megan Zavieh | Jun 6, 2012 | Blog, California State Bar Defense
I was discussing with another attorney the idea that lawyers do not act in the disciplinary process the way they would advise their own clients to act. Just as doctors come in from their smoke break and tell their patients to stop smoking, we lawyers often have a...
by Megan Zavieh | Jun 1, 2012 | Blog, California State Bar Defense
The California Bar recently released its annual report on the discipline system covering the calendar year 2011. It is chock-full of statistics on case load, back log, resolution times, etc., but what really interested me was the sheer volume of complaints that...
by Megan Zavieh | May 31, 2012 | Blog, California State Bar Defense
Lawyer-bloggers around the country have been closely following attorney Horace Hunter’s disciplinary matter before the Virginia State Bar. Hunter maintains a blog on his website in which he discusses his cases. The Virginia Bar says that his blog constitutes...
