SAN FRANCISCO — An 80-acre wildfire was burning just a few hills away from Howard Miller’s Brentwood home on an early July afternoon. The Getty Museum and a nearby college had been evacuated, the 405 was choked with traffic as ash fell on cars, and helicopters laden with buckets of water roared overhead.
But Miller, who becomes the new president of the State Bar of California on Saturday, paid no heed to the distant chaos while answering a reporter’s questions in the backyard of his Spanish-style home.
