Overview In the Matter of Bouyer addresses discipline arising from an attorney’s misdemeanor conviction for failing to timely file employment tax reports with the Employment Development Department (EDD). The [...]

Overview In the Matter of Rodriguez is an important procedural discipline case addressing probation-reporting violations, the binding effect of factual stipulations, and the Review Department’s duty to independently evaluate [...]

Overview In the Matter of Doran is a major discipline decision addressing trust account commingling, gross negligence constituting moral turpitude, client abandonment, and fiduciary breaches involving attorneys placing their [...]

Overview In the Matter of Respondent Y is a leading procedural discipline case addressing an attorney’s duty to report judicial sanctions to the State Bar and the obligation to [...]

Overview In the Matter of Kroff is a major discipline decision involving illegal solicitation of accident victims, repeated acts of misrepresentation, improper billing practices, failure to account for client [...]

Overview In the Matter of Greenwood addresses the standards for relief from default in State Bar disciplinary proceedings and the proper discipline for attorney abandonment of clients. The Review [...]

In the Matter of Priamos (Review Dept. 1998) 3 Cal. State Bar Ct. Rptr. 824 Overview Attorney Paul D. Priamos was disbarred after engaging in extensive self-dealing and breaches [...]

Overview In the Matter of Posthuma is a procedural discipline case addressing jurisdiction over reproval conditions, the doctrine of estoppel in disciplinary proceedings, and the appropriate discipline for failure [...]

Overview In the Matter of Yagman is a major discipline case involving multiple violations related to client trust accounting, fee agreements in civil rights litigation, failure to communicate settlement [...]

Overview In the Matter of Anderson is a landmark First Amendment discipline case establishing that attorneys cannot be disciplined for disparaging statements about judges unless the State Bar proves [...]