Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith Griffin was a calculating and deceitful lawyer who put his own interests above his duty to ensure his clients received millions of dollars in settlement funds they were owed, a state bar prosecutor told a California State Bar Court judge Friday.

In closing arguments concluding a four-day disciplinary trial, Eli Morgenstern, the bar’s senior trial counsel, said Griffin should be disbarred for misleading his clients—five Indonesian families of victims of the 2018 Lion Air crash—about the status of their payments.

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