Reappointment Proposed For California Chief Trial Counsel

David Cameron Carr has a report at his Kafkaesq blog on the vote to reappoint the Chief Trial Counsel for the California State Bar. The unionized staff has strongly opposed another term.

The decision was obvious even before the Board of Trustees started the meeting   Members of the Board greeted Chief Trial Counsel with hugs and kind words.   Union representatives were given an opportunity to repeat their allegations but the futility of their efforts was obvious almost as soon as State Bar Executive Director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker began to speak.  The final vote in favor of a second term for Jayne Kim was 14-1.

His own personal note

Jayne Kim is  unique as the first Chief Trial Counsel to work her way up from the bottom.   I was her first manager when she came to work for OCTC in 1999. She started as they all did in those days, as an Attorney grade II.  Attorney IIs by tradition have interior offices. When you get promoted to Attorney III, you get a window office; it is one the perks that come with the promotion. When  Ms. Kim started, we had empty window offices because of the shutdown. She began asking for a window office almost immediately and was very persistent. I explained to her that she would get a window office when she had promoted to Attorney III, which I knew would not long because she was very smart and very hard-working. She would not let it go and went around me to ask Fran Bassios,  the Acting Chief Trial Counsel,  for the window office. Eventually, he caved in and gave it to her.   What effect that had on her fellow Attorney IIs, I do not know; I left OCTC soon after.

He obviously is not enamored with the Kim administration as his highly topical header would indicate: The Empire Strikes Back. (Mike Frisch)