A California court rule requiring lawyers to be fingerprinted has turned up more than 6,000 criminal history reports, including more than 2,200 convictions previously unknown to the state bar.
The 2,200 unknown convictions include 20 unreported felonies, Above the Law reports.
The number of convictions likely will increase as more lawyers get fingerprinted ahead of an April 30 deadline. In its latest update, the State Bar of California said about one-third of the state’s active lawyers had yet to be fingerprinted.
Speaking of the State Bar, one lawmaker in Sacramento thinks that bar fees should be scaled so that lawyers who make more should pay more for their license. See High-Salaried Lawyers Should Pay More in Dues Than Others: Lawmaker: The California Legislature has not increased licensees' fees, previously called dues, since 1998 despite bar leaders' regular pleas for more money.
[Also note that you no longer pay "dues" to the State Bar. "Dues" are paid to voluntary organizations; but "fees" are paid to licensing agencies, like the State Bar.]
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