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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Sep. 1, 2023

New frontier for trust accounting

As of July 1, over 1600 California attorneys were enrolled on administrative inactive status because they failed to complete the 12 question self-assessment and the certification by the extended deadline of June 30.

In the post-Girardi era, additional scrutiny has been focused on the State Bar for its inexplicable inaction over a period of decades in the face of over 150 complaints, mostly from clients, about mishandling of entrusted funds by an attorney with significant political power. The State Bar’s solution to its seemingly deliberate failure to investigate and prosecute colorable complaints of serious trust account violations by Tom Girardi has been to propose tightened re...

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