Local News in Brief : State Bar Official Named
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Clayton R. Anderson, assistant chief and 30-year veteran of the Los Angeles County district attorney’s Bureau of Investigation, Friday was named director of the State Bar’s Office of Investigation.
The appointment was announced during a meeting of the Bar’s Board of Governors in Los Angeles by James A. Bascue, another veteran of the Los Angeles prosecutor’s office who now heads the Bar’s troubled attorney discipline section.
“Clayton Anderson will be a major factor in reducing the investigations backlog,” Bascue said.
Bascue’s position was authorized in a law authored by Sen. Robert Presley (D-Riverside) that required the Bar to pare its backlog of disciplinary complaints against attorneys and streamline and strengthen its discipline system. The Office of Investigation, which Anderson will now head, was created in 1986 as part of a series of Bar efforts to improve its investigation and processing of the complaints.
Anderson, 56, served as chief of the Los Angeles district attorney investigations office from 1981-85 under former Dist. Atty. John K. Van de Kamp and has been assistant chief since then.
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