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State Bar & Bar Associations

Oct. 30, 2023

Attorney couldn’t get Girardi to pay clients, both sides agree in bar trial

“What Mr. Griffin knew is that he was doing his best to get Mr. Girardi to pay, yet Mr. Girardi was not doing so,” said Keith D. Griffin’s attorney, Ryan D. Saba of Saba LLP.

Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith D. Griffin did everything he could to try to get Thomas Girardi to pay the firm’s clients, his attorney told a State Bar judge Friday, following a four day disciplinary trial.

Both sides agreed on at least one thing in the closing arguments: Griffin could not persuade Girardi to pay clients what they were owed.

Bar prosecutors charged Griffin in June with knowingly misleading ...

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