u/faker5599

Venting here. The CAL BAR is unhinged. Ever since the Girardi bullshit, they’ve supremely over regulated the profession so much that I have three different logins for portals that are all mandatory, including an IOLTA auditing process. I literally just saw in a fb group TO-DAY that we have to serve our bank with our contact information for the IOLTA account. Don’t they already have this information for whoever opened the account?? They list a link to find the address for service of process, and there are only 10 banks listed. Of course my bank is not on there. So I have to walk into a branch and hand to a clerk or manager a piece of paper with ALL of my IOLTA bank account information on it - my full legal name, name of my firm, and the entire IOLTA account number. What the actual fuck is the purpose of this?? I am on my way out of this profession, so I just wanted to say, get fucked Cal Bar.

Here’s the link to the form: https://www.calbar.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2025-11/Notice-Financial-Institutions-Establish-Trust-Account-Provide-Designated-Licensee-Name-State-Bar-Number.pdf

How do you recover from a crappy hearing? Yesterday I had a hearing for my client and it did not go well - Court overruled my requests and literally rolled her eyes at me as I was speaking. I’m so upset. My client will be fine, just seems unfair and so unprofessional. Why do we have to respect the judges so much when they don’t show us the same courtesy? This was on a procedural issue that I felt should have been continued for a further hearing, but the Court refused. I am both frustrated professionally and feel a bruise to my ego as other colleagues were there watching. How do I get over this??