State Bar responds by pointing to the complainant’s own voice-to-text tool

• Jun 17, 2026

  Replying to a letter with seventeen questions sent at 3:48 PM, Shiptenko answered one point and wrote that the complainant did not have to use the grievance form and could create a document using his existing voice-to-text tool, asking that he include the information the form requests. This established that the grievance form is not required. The reply came 34 minutes after the seventeen questions were sent.

  John J. Shiptenko, Senior Assistant General Counsel

  June 17 voice-to-text response email from John Shiptenko▸ Primary document linked

  Why it matters: The Bar treated the complainant's privately paid assistive technology as the route to file, while the seventeen other questions went unanswered.

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