Haley v. State Bar of California

Petitioner, Daniel Haley, was admitted to practice law in this state in 1951. The local administrative committee and the Board of Governors of the State Bar found that in January 1961 petitioner received a settlement check of $5,000 in a personal injury matter he had handled for a client; in this remittance, as petitioner knew, the State Compensation Insurance Fund had an interest of $3,750 pursuant to its lien claim which had been settled for that