State Bar & Bar Associations,
Discipline
Oct. 10, 2022
State Bar aims to reveal closed attorney discipline cases
The State Bar said it has reinterpreted a Business and Professions Code section that it had insisted allowed only disclosure of certain active cases to protect the public. It now says the law is ambiguous and it can waive confidentiality in closed cases, too.
The State Bar will begin next month disclosing information on closed attorney disciplinary cases, unless the Supreme Court disagrees with the new policy that the bar said is part of its plan to increase transparency.
The announcement follows years of complaints against now-disbarred plaintiffs’ attorney Thomas V. Girardi by clients who accused him of stealing from them, with no reported discipline or action by the bar.
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