Barbara Bonar, the Kentucky Bar Association President Facing Ethics Probe

The president of the KBA, Barbara Bonar is facing an ethics probe and this case is receiving national and local press attention.

We know, yes, you are presumed innocent until found otherwise but at what point should an officer of the court who is leading a state bar association resign? Do you stay and fight the good fight until the bitter end and remain in office despite it all or do you step down and place the integrity of the Association, its members, and the public above all?

If you were the State Bar president and being investigated and your case was receiving national and local press attention would you remain the Bar President? What's better for the President as an individual may not be the best and most rational course for the Association and its members.

See these links:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081012/NEWS01/810120454

Make sure you read the comments at the end of the first article.

http://abajournal.com/news/ky_bar_president_faces_ethics_probe_linked_to_fee_dispute_in_priest_case/

See also this post, by a Kentucky attorney commenting that Bonar should stay in office (she was President Elect).

http://www.kentuckylawblog.com/2008/03/ethics-kentucky.html

Comments

[latonia]

See this link for an update on this comment. http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/627557.html. See also http://www.kybar.org/documents/benchbar/2009/bb_0109_4.pdf.