LOS ANGELES – An incensed federal judge on Monday rejected disgraced plaintiffs’ attorney William Lerach’s request to complete some of his community service by teaching a course at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.

U.S. District Judge John Walter in Los Angeles devoted several minutes during a hearing reciting public statements in which Mr. Lerach appeared to display a lack of remorse for his crime. As a result, Judge Walter said, the only message Mr. Lerach could offer students was this: “Don’t get caught.”

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