Discipline
Sep. 10, 2013
Bay Area lawyer faces disbarment for massive misappropriation
An attorney just three years out of Stanford Law School enticed a 77-year-old doctor to invest in a partnership, then used the funds for "personal investments," a bar judge ruled.
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A Bay Area lawyer should be disbarred for stealing $3.5 million from an elderly doctor, a State Bar Court judge has ruled in what discipline prosecutors said is the largest attorney misappropriation case in recent memory.
According to the judge's Sept. 4 opinion, in 2004, only three years after graduating from Stanford Law School, Wade Anthony Robertson Jr. enticed a 77-year-old doctor to invest in a partnership with h...
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