State Bar & Bar Associations
Dec. 20, 2023
Girardi’s son-in-law must answer to suspension effort
Although the bar court abated two disciplinary cases against David R. Lira on self-incrimination grounds due to his pending prosecution in a Chicago federal court, the judge said those reasons don’t necessarily apply in an involuntary inactive enrollment proceeding.
Following a three-month battle between State Bar prosecutors and former Girardi Keese attorney David R. Lira, a State Bar Court judge denied his motion to pause the proceeding that could temporarily suspend his law license.
Lira, a litigator with Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack in Los Angeles, opposed the involuntary suspension on the grounds that he has not been convicted of anything in federal, state or bar court and has been representing ...
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