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The warning signs about Tom Girardi flashed year after year, allegations that he skimmed settlement money, inflated costs, abandoned clients and cheated colleagues.
The vaunted Los Angeles trial lawyer, a regular on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” and his firm were sued more than a hundred times between the 1980s and last year, with at least half of those cases asserting misconduct in his law practice.
Yet through it all, Girardi’s record with the State Bar of California, the government agency that regulates attorneys, remained pristine. The bar took no action to warn the public despite receiving what The Times has learned were multiple complaints. That spotless license allowed him to continue marketing himself as one of the nation’s most renowned civil lawyers, and to sign up thousands of new clients, some of whom would later say he absconded with millions of dollars of their settlement money.
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U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur has tendered his resignation, effective Feb. 15, he announced Wednesday.
Jonathan F. Lenzner, Hur s first assistant U.S. attorney, will serve as acting U.S. attorney until a replacement is confirmed. Hur, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, took office April 9, 2018.
In a statement, Hur thanked Trump as well as Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, former Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr, and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who preceded him as Maryland s top federal prosecutor.
“I will always be grateful to have served as U.S. Attorney and helped further the office’s proud legacy of pursuing justice with integrity, and without fear or favor,” Hur said.
February 3, 2021
United States Attorney Robert K. Hur announced today that he will resign his position as the chief federal law enforcement officer for the District of Maryland. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland is one of the country’s largest and busiest, serving a population of more than six million. Mr. Hur will return to private law practice. Jonathan F. Lenzner, who has served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney during Mr. Hur’s tenure, will become the Acting U.S. Attorney upon his departure.
Mr. Hur took office on April 9, 2018. He tendered his resignation to the President and the Acting Attorney General today, and will conclude his service as United States Attorney on February 15, 2021.