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Discipline

Apr. 29, 2009

Irvine Lawyer Resigns from Bar After Blowing $2.7 Million Settlement

Sandeep Baweja admitted squandering nearly all of $2.7 million from a class action settlement.

By Ciaran McEvoy
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - An Irvine plaintiffs' lawyer who admitted squandering nearly all of a $2.7 million class-action settlement has executed paperwork to resign from the State Bar, one of his criminal defense attorneys said Monday.

The resignation of Sandeep Baweja, of the Baweja Law Group, should be effective by the end of the week, said Michael J. Proctor of Caldwell Leslie & Proctor. Proctor notified U.S...

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