State Bar & Bar Associations
Dec. 18, 2023
State Bar defends effort to disbar Girardi’s son-in-law
“The Rules of Procedure of the State Bar of California, Rule 5.225(D), permit the State Bar to file an application after it has filed a notice of disciplinary charges,” State Bar Trial Counsel Eli D. Morgenstern and Kristina B. Ramos wrote in an opposition reply to David R. Lira’s abatement support brief.
State Bar prosecutors deflected former Girardi Keese attorney David R. Lira’s argument that their pursuit to temporarily suspend his law license would be procedurally improper because they filed it months after issuing two notices of disciplinary charges against him in June.
The matter stems from Lira’s involvement in the alleged pilfering of settlement funds by his father-in-law Tom Girardi. Lira has denied that he had any knowledge of or...
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