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The State Bar can conduct depositions of the two former employees as part of its internal investigation into whether insiders helped Girardi sidestep discipline and keep an unblemished law license while he misappropriated money from his clients.
Vegas parties, celebrities and boozy lunches: How legal titan Tom Girardi seduced the State Bar Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton © (Al Seib) Tom Girardi was able to stay in the state bar's good graces for decades while attorneys accused of similar wrongdoing were reprimanded, suspended or disbarred. (Al Seib) The warning signs about Tom Girardi flashed year after year, allegations that he skimmed settlement money, inflated costs, abandoned clients and cheated colleagues. The vaunted Los Angeles trial lawyer, a regular on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” and his firm were ...
Print The warning signs about Tom Girardi flashed year after year, allegations that he skimmed settlement money, inflated costs, abandoned clients and cheated colleagues. The vaunted Los Angeles trial lawyer, a regular on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” and his firm were sued more than a hundred times between the 1980s and last year, with at least half of those cases asserting misconduct in his law practice. Yet through it all, Girardi’s record with the State Bar of California, the government agency that regulates attorneys, remained pristine. The bar took no action to warn the publ...