State Bar & Bar Associations
Mar. 22, 2023
The California Bar intends to “identify and prevent unethical behavior.” Really?
Notwithstanding the magnitude of decades-long lawsuits and complaints against Girardi, the consistent failure of the Bar to act until March 2021 – when a federal judge referred the matter for criminal investigation – is a phenomenal abdication of public trust.
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor
CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
According to a March 11 story in The Los Angeles Times, it appears the Tom Girardi case "blew the lid" off the California State Bar's historical intentional policy of looking the other way when it came to the unsavory activities of high-profile members with "connections at all levels."
This was the recent forced State Bar report on the alleged $1 million corruption case featuring disgraced former disbarred member Tom Girardi ...
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