UC Irvine School of Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky assessed
the U.S. Supreme Court’s last term and concluded there are no longer five votes
for a conservative result.
San Diego’s Julia Kelety and Ventura County’s Colleen Toy
White received accolades for their efforts to increase access to justice in
their communities.
James P. Fox, the former district attorney of San Mateo County,
will lead the board in its public protection mission next year. He and the
other new officers will be sworn in this fall.
A San Francisco Superior Court judge heard testimony last
month to determine whether the State Bar must make decades worth of bar
applicants’ personal information available to the public.