Tom Girardi Was Not Disbarred Despite 200 Complaints

The State Bar of California has shared an open letter wherein the company confirmed that Thomas Girardi confronted over 200 “disciplinary issues” previous to being disbarred in August 2021.

In accordance with the letter, quite a lot of claims have been introduced in opposition to Thomas and his regulation agency, Girardi Keese, over the course of his decades-long profession, together with allegations of violating shopper belief and authorized misrepresentation.

“Over the previous 40 years, the State Bar opened 205 disciplinary issues about Girardi,” the letter revealed, in response to PEOPLE. “Of the 205 issues, roughly 120 concerned allegations referring to shopper belief account violations.”

One other 69 of these 205 issues have been obtained “on or after December 18, 2020,” when paperwork have been filed by Thomas’ collectors to pressure his agency into chapter 11.

“Almost 60 of these current complaints alleged shopper belief account violations,” the letter continued.

After recounting the numerous investigations into Thomas and his enterprise, the company admitted that the dealing with of Thomas’ disbarment “delivered to mild critical failures within the State Bar’s lawyer self-discipline system,” which “have contributed to a insecurity within the State Bar’s means to hold out our core duty of defending the general public.”

“There is no such thing as a excuse being supplied right here. Girardi precipitated irreparable hurt to a whole lot of his shoppers, and the State Bar may have carried out extra to guard the general public,” the letter went on, with the Bar promising to “by no means permit one thing like this to occur once more.”

When paperwork pertaining to his disbarment have been filed, Thomas, who was recognized with late-onset Alzheimer’s in March 2021, didn’t argue the choice.

As followers of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills possible know, Thomas, the estranged husband of Erika Jayne, has been underneath a conservatorship since early 2021 and was residing in an assisted care facility till final month, when he was moved to a “restricted reminiscence care unit” at an assisted residing facility in October “as a consequence of an additional decline in his reminiscence capabilities,” his lawyer, Rudy M. A. Cosio, defined.

Though Erika has been dragged into quite a lot of lawsuits in opposition to Thomas, together with one which accused her of “aiding and abetting” the previous lawyer in his alleged fraud, it was not too long ago decided that she had no confirmed data of his reported malpractice.

“Two years now down the highway, we’re getting some actually nice rulings, and I’m grateful for that,” Erika mentioned throughout an RHOBH panel at BravoCon final month. “And extra to go… So I’m in a significantly better place, and I’m grateful for that.”