Agreement Lays Out Plan for the End of a Practice

• Jurisdiction: California,United States
• Citation: Vol. 03 No. 2013 Pg. 04
• Publication year: 2013
• Pages: 04
• Year: 2013
• topic: Business of Law,Corporate / Commercial,Civil Procedure,Wills, Trusts and Estates

Agreement lays out plan for the end of a practice No. 2013 #04 California Bar Journal March 2013

Amy Yarbrough, Staff Writer.

It was enough to make even a seasoned investigator squirm.

Left to sort out the corrupt criminal practice of an attorney who had been determined to be mentally unfit, the State Bar found itself in possession of hundreds of his clients’ files. Housed for several months in an 8-by-10 shipping container in the bar’s Los Angeles parking lot, the files were so infested with bugs and rat droppings they had to be decontaminated by a hazardous materials crew before they could even be returned to clients.

Few situations rise to such an extreme level. But even eight years later, the story serves as a vivid example of a persistent...