The Daily Journal article is posted below. I don't know what to say definitively, except "let's wait to see what the evidence shows."
Taking a step back, however, I've often rued what I've viewed as California's unsophisticated approach to legal ethics. I hope I'm wrong about that, and I hope that I'm judging my home state more harshly simply because I'm closer to it and care more about it. But, given the positions I've held, I've had exposure to how the ABA and various states and federal agencies handle the law governing lawyers (LGL) and I've often thought that a state with about 10% of the country's population and about 12% of the active lawyers ought to have one of the most sophisticated LGL regimes of in the entire country. We don't. For reasons that elude me, we appear to have a provincial approach, backwards rules, a non-transparent state bar, and a lack of forward thinking. Perhaps this lawsuit isn't proof of my tentative conclusions. But perhaps it is. Stay tuned. [I want to emphasize that the termination of Joe Dunn may not be related to any backwardness of our LGL in California.]
Download Dunn article from Daily Journal
Update: Here is the complaint itself.
Download Sen. Joseph Dunn v. Cal. State Bar - Complaint
Update 2: It appears that Dunn knew he was about to be let go and that he views the matter as internecine warare within the Bar itself.