State Bar & Bar Associations,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jan. 25, 2022
State Bar hires law firm to probe handling of Girardi complaints
Halpern May Ybarra Gelbert LLP will do the investigation. “We have been proactively doing everything in our power to learn from the past and do better in the future to prevent harms like this from recurring,” said bar Board of Trustees Chair Ruben Duran.
The California State Bar board announced Monday it hired Halpern May Ybarra Gelbert LLP to investigate its handling of complaints against Thomas V. Girardi -- an action that surprised even the most skeptical of observers on whether the influence of the now-disgraced plaintiffs' attorney would ever come to light.
"I think this is absolutely, positively the right thing for the State Bar to do," said Antonio Sarabia of IP Business Law Inc. and...
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