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# Check your lawyer’s record
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/check-your-lawyers-record/
- Published: 2002-06-29T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:24:41.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

To find out if your lawyer has been disciplined by the Bar, log onto www.calsb.org, click on “Member Search” and fill in the attorney’s name or bar number. A page will come up listing the attorney’s address, contact information, when they were admitted to the bar, and where he or she went to undergraduate and law school.

At the bottom of the page, there will be a link to any pertinent disciplinary information.

If the attorney does have a disciplinary history, a summary of the charges and punishments can be found online in the California Bar Journal archives, which go back to 1996\. They can be accessed by going to www.calbar.ca.gov and clicking on “California Bar Journal” in the lower right hand corner. If the lawyer’s indiscretions pre-date 1996, contact the State Bar for details.

It also may be worthwhile to run an Internet search to see if your attorney’s name has appeared in headlines.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 29, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062902.pdf?ref=smdp.com)