The State Bar of California - San Francisco, California

Ryan O'Riordan

A warning to out-of-state attorneys. I have paid and applied to take the Bar this month. Just found an email in my junk folder stating I need a certificate of good standing or else my application will be cancelled and no refund given. From where I don't know. there is no contact information. No correspondence on my applicant portal. After paying over $3000 I am astonished how poorly this process has gone. My application and admission to Minnesota was nothing like this. Impossible to talk to someone on the phone. All this after my application was not accepted because there was no button to submit statements on the application. Incredibly poor performance.

Alena Gavrilenko

California state bar should protect the public from bad attorneys. Instead the state bar accept bribes from corrupted attorneys and allows them to continue hurting clients. State Bar even dismiss complaints with forged by attorneys signatures of clients, proven by expert opinion. That’s not how it supposed to be. Join California state bar discussion group on Facebook and let’s share resources what we can do to protect our rights.

K B

Get this. The reason I hired an attorney was because he said that my loved one that was incarcerated on a new charge would end up with the Lesser charge if he had all of the priors for some other stuff expunged before they went to court. So of course I was super excited and was like heck yeah let's do this okay so he asked me for a $10,000 retainer so that he can process the expungements

So I was super excited and he was very enthusiastic about the fact that that is the one thing that needed to be done because that would make everything better. I started poking around and realized he can get it well he's incarcerated or being held. I verified it with four other law firms. This man insisted that he could do it and would not return my money. You know what his plan was? To submit them knowing they would be rejected and keep my $10,000 for nothing. So I submitted it to the bar and they basically sat on it for 4 months and then said that I have no claim. That is the only reason I hired a representation in California the only reason

Miss cee

As you can see from their poor ratings and the commentary this organization does not protect the public. Due to this organization not doing their job, my family and I went to a D.A. and now the attorney who I complained about is no longer on the case. Yes, the D.A. did a better job that this organization.

Jodi Stringer

Hey, State Bar of California, I'm writing a book about my experience with your office, including how you refused to refund my bar registration fee when I withdrew from the exam after a man attacked me while I was out jogging 6 weeks before the exam. Remember, you implied that I falsified a police report about the whole thing? Yeah. Guess you really needed the money from my registration fee because your emoyee, Sharon Pearl, was embezzling all that money from you at the time. Care to comment for the book? Did she embezzle my exam fee, too?

Kayleigh Bull

Unfortunately, the State Bar is a self regulating group. They allow ROGUE attorneys loose in or community and we become their prey. I had a horrible experience with one of these attorneys and reported him to the State Bar. They opened an investigation & sat on it for over 3 years until I received notice that I had to sue the attorney before they would go any further. I am appealing, but have zero confidence in this joke of an organization that claims to protect the public.

Justin Wei

I went here for a date and the vibes were so mid. They don’t even serve alcohol.

Ross Tyrrell

Joel Paulsen (Chief Investigator) is a consummate professional and researching analyst. He deserves credit for thoughtful and time consuming caretaking disseminating analysis in/for the work/results he produces.