The California State Bars Office of the Chief Trial Counsel was awestruck and panic-stricken when it lost its motion for entry of default, in a direct test of its legal position against me, the pro se respondent in Case No. 05-R-04605, et. al.
I start the account in the middle, with the outrageous misconduct of the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel, through Deputy Trial Counsel Melanie K. Lawrence, Esq. The forum is the State Bar Court’s Hearing Department, presided over by the Hon. Richard A. Honn. Todays story is merely the beginning of the extensive coverage and analytic commentary I seek to provide regarding “In the Matter of Stephen R. Diamond, No. 183617, A Member of the State Bar, an action in which I am obviously an interested party.
What follows today is a small but revealing part of the story. If you thought the State Bar Court is simply a court like many others, think again.
1. I filed a motion to reconsider after the court denied my motion to dismiss the notice of Disciplinary Charges. That day, a Tuesday, I had brought my intent to move for reconsideration to the court’s attention at an in-person status conference, where the...
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