Barry

BACKGROUND

In April 2010, plaintiff and the State Bar‟s Office of Chief Trial Counsel entered into a stipulation resolving two State Bar disciplinary cases against plaintiff. In December 2010, plaintiff sought to revoke the stipulation by filing a petition with the California Supreme Court to set aside the stipulation and dismiss the disciplinary charges against her. After the Supreme Court denied plaintiff‟s petition, she filed the instant

1 All further statutory references are to the Code of Civil Procedure unless otherwise stated.

2 The special motion to strike is commonly referred to as an anti-SLAPP motion.

3 Plaintiff abandoned her appeal of the order granting the anti-SLAPP motion and the judgment of dismissal based on that order. Her appellate challenge is limited to the order awarding attorney fees.

2 action, seeking the same relief as well as monetary damages and a jury trial on the State Bar disciplinary charges. The State Bar filed a demurrer, as well as an anti-SLAPP motion. The trial court granted the anti-SLAPP motion, finding that the State Bar had met its burden of demonstrating that each of plaintiff‟s causes of action arose from State…