State Bar & Bar Associations,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Discipline
May 10, 2022
Will bar’s probe of its Girardi handling ever be public?
“While details of this investigation must remain confidential to give it the greatest chance for success, this stipulation is a public record that demonstrates the State Bar’s progress, continuing effort, and resolve in pursuing this investigation thoroughly and completely,” wrote Ruben Duran, chair of the agency’s Board of Trustees, in a statement.
The State Bar’s investigation into its handling of complaints against powerful but now-disgraced plaintiffs’ attorney Thomas V. Girardi will move forward after a Monday agreement between the bar’s outside counsel and the trustee handling his bankruptcy estate.
Elissa D. Miller, the trustee, didn’t want to get stuck with “burdensome and costly compliance” with requests by the bar’s outside counsel, Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP, so the bar...
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