Two attorneys from Northern California won election today to serve on the Board of Trustees for the State Bar of California. 

Unaccredited law schools in California will be required to report student attrition rates in the written disclosures that must be provided to students under a new rule approved today by the State Bar Board of Trustees.  

The State Bar Board of Trustees has approved the transfer of $2 million in reserves to the Client Security Fund, boosting the amount available for payouts this year to $8 million.

 The State Bar of California's California Board of Legal Specialization reported today that 75 percent of the examinees passed the October 2015 Legal Specialist Examination. 

The State Bar of California is pleased to announce that the California Supreme Court today approved the change to a two-day bar exam effective July 2017.

The State Bar of California announced today that it will honor two legal luminaries at its 20th annual statewide ethics symposium on April 9 in San Francisco. 

The State Bar of California’s Governance in the Public Interest Task Force held its second of three public hearings today on the organization’s structure.

An arbitrator today dismissed all claims in a lawsuit brought against the State Bar of California by its former executive director, Joseph Dunn, after he was terminated in November 2014.

The State Bar of California issued the following statement today on a San Francisco Superior Court ruling denying its motion to dismiss a lawsuit seeking access to bar applicant information:

Gov. Jerry Brown today appointed Stacie Spector, 52, of San Diego, to the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California.