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State Bar president defends bar structure, CLE policy before Montana Senate Judiciary Committee
Summary
Toni Teas, president of the State Bar of Montana, appeared by Zoom to respond to a December 23 letter from senators about remarks at an April CLE event; she said disciplinary matters are handled by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel and emphasized the bar’s limitations and funding model.
Toni Teas, president of the State Bar of Montana, appeared by Zoom before the Senate Judiciary Committee to respond to a December 23 letter from senators seeking answers about remarks made at an April continuing legal-education event.
Teas told the committee she appeared voluntarily and that she drafted the State Bar’s January 6 response to the December 23 letter. She said the State Bar is not involved in or in control of attorney disciplinary proceedings, which are handled by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) and governed by confidentiality rules. Teas said disciplinary matters are treated as confidential under disciplinary rule 20 and that the State Bar cannot comment on matters that have been referred to ODC.
The exchange began after Senator John Fuller said he wrote the December 23 letter seeking a formal response about comments at the April CLE program; Fuller said a member of the event panel made remarks he found…
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