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What Law Firms Should Be Doing to Stop Their Own Would-Be Crooks Original

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By Alison Lake, Alison LakeElevated Take
| Bloomberg Law Verified
“Don’t steal from your clients” seems an obvious principle for lawyers that shouldn’t need deep explanation in professional conduct rules (though it does in multiple places). But theft keeps happening. Toxic tort king Thomas Girardi’s conviction for stealing $15 million from victims, among other fraud, is just the latest in a sordid history of attorneys helping themselves to settlement funds and bilking clients. Former celebrity attorneys Michael Avenatti and F.
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