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Jul. 15, 2010
Plaintiffs' Lawyers Are Disciplined By 9th Circuit
Attorneys Walter Lack and Paul Traina were suspended for six months and Thomas Girardi received a reprimand Tuesday for trying to enforce a sham $489 million Nicaraguan judgment at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Plaintiffs' attorneys Walter J. Lack and Paul A. Traina were suspended for six months from practicing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for trying to enforce a sham $489 million Nicaraguan judgment, and Thomas V. Girardi received a reprimand Tuesday, the court announced.
Lack and Traina of the Los Angeles firm of Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack "chose to remain willful...
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