Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Apr. 19, 2011
First Attorney Disbarred by New Task Force
A lawyer who admitted stealing $170,000 from a client has agreed to be disbarred in the first completed prosecution by the State Bar's two-month-old special unit targeting large-scale theft from clients.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A lawyer who admitted stealing $170,000 from a client agreed to be disbarred in the first completed prosecution by the State Bar's two-month-old special unit targeting large-scale theft from clients.
Bar officials, however, predict that more prosecutions will be coming soon.
"We have a number of cases on the verge of filing in the next week or two," James E. Towery, the ...
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