Would you believe I just saw for the first time that Legaltech is early this year? Yep, it’s June 13-14 at the Embarcadero Center Hyatt Regency. Follow the link for the latest info and to download a copy of the event catalog.
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Doing the Splits!
Wow…I haven’t posted in two months. Why not? Well, the bulk of my *spare* time has been occupied with something called “Deunification“. This isn’t actually a word, by the way (as your spellchecker will probably tell you), it’s what the State Bar of California – and the legislature – have adopted to describe the prospect of splitting the Bar in two; Regulatory on one side and Voluntary on the other. If you want, you can refer to it by its official name, “Governance in the Public Interest Task Force“.
Every time I hear the word “Deunification”, I think of the Moonies.
Needless to say, this is by no means a simple process, and the educational Sections are caught in the middle of it. The debate – as you can probably figure out – is over which side the Sections should occupy.
To put this in the form of an essay question on the Bar exam, it would be followed by this simple word:
“Discuss!” [‘bang’ added]
And we have been. And we are. And we will be, into the foreseeable future…