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Oct. 3, 2017

Gov. Brown signs State Bar overhaul bill into law

SB 36 calls for the bar’s specialty practice groups to split off into a private nonprofit.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Monday a sweeping State Bar overhaul bill that has as its main component the mandated separation of the agency’s specialty practice groups into a private nonprofit.

The bill’s author and the bar called the various measures included in SB 36 “historic,” as they pave the way for the split of the bar’s primary trade association-like activities from its regulatory functions.

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