Wow, where do I even start? So I stumbled on this piece, right? It was about Tom Girardi. Yeah, that guy. You know, the one who used to be married to a “Real Housewives” star? Anyway, I was just, like, “What?!” This legal hotshot got slammed with a 7-year prison sentence. I mean, the guy had over 200 complaints — not two or twenty, but two hundred — and the State Bar of California just kinda shrugged? Seriously, it’s like they were having these long, lazy, wine-soaked lunches while clients’ money vanished. Poof. Gone.
Meanwhile, across the pond in the good ol’ U.K., they’ve got it sorted. Lawyers over there, they’ve got people poking through every single penny. And then the auditors get audited too. It’s like an infinite loop of checks. No wonder corruption’s as rare as a unicorn there.
So, the State Bar here finally decides to wake up and throw a few minor reforms into the mix. Ha! Good luck with that. Lawyers — and let’s be real, they’re not angels — are just like the rest of us. Temptations everywhere. They need to be watched, like hawks. Maybe drag in some outside folks, unbiased CPAs, to pick through the books. You know, the ones actually hired by the bar to prevent any funny business. And honestly, someone at the bar should be getting the boot for dropping the ball so hard.
And oh yeah, this is all me, just rambling from Thousand Oaks.
-Raymond Freeman
