State Bar Gc Babcock to Retire

• Jurisdiction: California,United States
• Citation: Vol. 08 No. 2013 Pg. 06
• Publication year: 2013
• Pages: 06
• Year: 2013
• topic: Business of Law,Civil Procedure,Public Sector Law

State Bar GC Babcock to retire No. 2013 #06 California Bar Journal August 2013

General Counsel Starr Babcock, who has served as the State Bar of California's top legal adviser for the past three years, announced that he will retire Jan. 31, 2014 after a 40-year career dominated by public service to the judicial branch.

Babcock took the position of general counsel at a time when the State Bar was recovering from a veto of its annual fee bill and undergoing a shift in leadership. Babcock worked closely with Executive Director/CEO Joseph Dunn when he assumed the leadership in 2010. Babcock and the Office of General Counsel also staffed the Governance Reform Task Force, whose...