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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Jul. 16, 2021

Bar to review special master’s report on LA water bill attorneys

The report released this week named prominent attorneys it said had “violated the ethical rules against dishonesty, deceit, and collusion and violated their ethical duties to … the court in violation of Rules of Professional Conduct.”

In its first major test since admitting "mistakes" in regulating disgraced attorney Thomas V. Girardi, the State Bar said it would review a special master's report released this week that found several prominent attorneys in Los Angeles committed ethical violations.

According to a 595-page report released Tuesday, attorneys from the Los Angeles city attorney's office colluded with private lawyers to sue their own client, the city, i...

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