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State Bar & Bar Associations

Aug. 30, 2021

Bar names new chief trial counsel

George S. Cardona, a longtime federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, will lead the bar’s attorney discipline efforts starting Oct. 4.

Ending a monthslong search, the State Bar on Friday named a longtime federal prosecutor to be its new Chief Trial Counsel.

George S. Cardona, currently interim city attorney in Santa Monica, will lead the bar's attorney discipline efforts starting Oct. 4. He arrives at a time when the state bar is facing scrutiny for its failure to investigate high profile attorneys suspected of wrongdoing, specifically the plaintiffs lawyer Tom Girardi who...

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