State Bar Reform

1. What are the state bars? — How and why did we get into our present situation.
2. What are the problems with the state bars? — Why they are too often doing more harm than good.
3. What are some remedies? — Some of the things we might do about them.

Texas

• Sunset the Bar — The State Bar Act is subject to the Sunset Act and comes up for renewal in 2015. See Texas Government Code Sec. 81.003. We need to put pressure on the Texas Legislature by then not to renew it.