By Cheryl Miller | November 23, 2022
Lawyers for the state bar are seeking depositions from two unnamed former employees about how past complaints against Tom Girardi were handled. Bar officials say the witnesses did not comply with subpoenas issued this summer.
By Allison Dunn | November 22, 2022
"We recognize how respondent's mental impairment affected his client representation, and we afford it due mitigating weight," Justice Elizabeth D. Walker wrote on behalf of the court. "We also commend his actions to address it, and we acknowledge his continued efforts toward mental health recovery. But his impairment does not insulate him from meaningful sanctions."
By Amanda Bronstad | November 21, 2022
Plaintiffs lawyers asked a federal judge to impose a $2.05 million sanction in fees and costs against Gibson Dunn and its client, Facebook, for discovery misconduct in the Cambridge Analytica cases.
By Cheryl Miller | November 17, 2022
Ruben Duran, chair of the state bar's board of trustees, said that in light of the prosecution and disbarment of Tom Girardi, it's time for the agency to revisit a rule that would require lawyers to report colleagues and judges who have committed misconduct.
By Christine Schiffner | November 16, 2022
As a self-regulating industry, lawyers have a responsibility to ensure equal justice. If the industry continues to tolerate harassment and discrimination, the face and reputation of the profession will not change.
By Brad Kutner | November 9, 2022
A new database, called the Judiciary Electronic Filing System, or JEFS, went live Monday. launched by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, for the first time judges' financial disclosure reports will be centralized in a searchable format for the public—and lawyers—to access.
By Charles Toutant | November 7, 2022
The attorney had three previous disciplinary infractions—for wielding a golf club at another driver in a road rage altercation, for attempting to persuade a former client to withdraw her ethics complaint against him, and for presenting his cousin's driver's license to a police officer as his own, the Disciplinary Review Board said.
By Cheryl Miller | November 3, 2022
"There is no excuse being offered here; Girardi caused irreparable harm to hundreds of his clients, and the state bar could have done more to protect the public," Ruben Duran, chair of the state bar's board of trustees, said Thursday.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 2, 2022
U.S. District Judge Tom Durkin declined to sanction ex-Girardi Keese partners David Lira and Keith Griffin, who worked with Tom Girardi.
By Avalon Zoppo | October 31, 2022
"These are expenses that would not have been incurred, but for [the lawyer's] deceitful, obstructive, and contumacious conduct," the special master wrote.
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