By Cheryl Miller | March 13, 2023
In an hour-long meeting with reporters on Monday, state bar leaders said they've made changes to ensure a rogue lawyer can't avoid discipline by schmoozing agency employees.
By Cheryl Miller | March 10, 2023
Senate Judiciary Chairman Tom Umberg said revelations that Tom Girardi cultivated relationships with and, in some cases, showered gifts and money on former state bar employees while the agency closed more than 100 disciplinary complaints against him is "mind boggling."
By Cheryl Miller | March 10, 2023
An investigation conducted by Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg found that Tom Girardi, through his law firm, paid a former state bar employee, his wife and a business they operated more than $600,000 while the trial lawyer was facing misconduct complaints filed with the agency.
By Cheryl Miller | March 7, 2023
Marla Anne Brown, a solo practitioner, tweeted "Shoot the protestors," the state bar said, as demonstrators took to the streets after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
By Cheryl Miller | March 3, 2023
The proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 8.3 includes language barring the professional reporting of California-licensed lawyers who help women in abortion-restrictive states find legal medical care elsewhere.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 3, 2023
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cummings, in Chicago, entered the plea Friday at a virtual arraignment hearing, in which Girardi appeared alongside his brother and conservator, Robert Girardi, and a federal public defender.
By Shari Klevens and Alanna Clair | February 17, 2023
Denton's Shari Klevens and Alanna Clair share some tips to help tackle the questions of whether to advise others of personal emergencies and how to do so.
By Charles Toutant | February 15, 2023
"I just wrote a long letter to a client, saying what you have asked me to do is not in your best interest and I will not do it," said John Blumberg, an attorney in Long Beach, California.
By John Scheerer | February 14, 2023
Attorneys or their clients might mistakenly, but reasonably, believe that the privilege automatically continues on in perpetuity, but in the probate world, privileges are often eviscerated as a matter of statutory law after death.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 10, 2023
David Lira, 62, who is Tom Girardi's son-in-law, appeared virtually at a hearing in Chicago, where federal prosecutors indicted him Feb. 1 on charges of stealing $3 million from the families of airplane crash victims.
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