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California bar study finds black male lawyers more likely to be disciplined
It's not because they suck or they have no self control, it's because RACISMS LOLBlack male lawyers in California are more likely than other attorneys to be subjected to discipline by the State Bar, and far more likely to be the targets of complaints to the bar by their clients, according to a study commissioned by the bar.
The study by George Farkas, a professor of education at UC Irvine, said one likely reason for the disparities in discipline is that African American attorneys are more likely to represent themselves in proceedings before the bar. Black attorneys also face more disciplinary investigations, and are impacted by a system that increases punishment for repeated offenses, the report said.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/art...s-14839542.php“The State Bar’s discipline system needs to protect the public in a way that is fair and unbiased,” the bar’s executive director, Leah Wilson, said in a statement Thursday after the study was presented to the organization’s Board of Trustees. “The report gives us a road map to continue probing this complex topic and to address any unintended bias in our discipline system.”
Among male attorneys, the study said, 3.9% of the black lawyers were disbarred during the study period, the bar’s most severe punishment, or resigned while facing possible disbarment. The figures were 1.7% for Latinos and 1% for whites.
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