AdvertisementA state bar spokeswoman said the confidentiality of bar investigations along with other restrictions prevented them from answering many of The Times’ queries about Girardi. The financial improprieties alleged were precisely the sort of misconduct the State Bar of California was supposed to investigate. By law, complaints generally become public only if they result in formal charges in state bar court. For the 2014 convention, five bar employees, including Dunn, were invited to speak on a panel entitled “Avoiding Trouble with the State Bar,” according to a program. “If a stranger to the State bar had engaged in this conduct, he would surely be prosecuted,” bar attorneys later wrote in the draft complaint.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 06, 2021 12:56 UTC