Sean SeLegue, former chair of the California state bar’s board of trustees, had no duty to step away from the agency’s review of how it handled numerous complaints against Tom Girardi even though SeLegue was involved in a disciplinary review of the former trial lawyer in 2010, a bar-retained attorney concluded.

Christine Adams of Adams, Duerk & Kamenstein said in a report released Wednesday that SeLegue had told others at the bar about his past role and pushed for more disclosure of the bar’s failures to act on more than 100 reports of alleged misconduct by Girardi over four decades.

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