California Bar Needs Housecleaning, Reform: Retiring Top Justice

California Bar reform is on the to-do list for the next state supreme court chief justice along with bringing in mediators for oversight, retiring Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said Wednesday.

Cantil-Sakauye, in her last meet the media meeting before retiring in January, said much needs to be done to correct the deficiencies revealed by the Thomas Girardi affair in which hundreds of millions of dollars in claims were filed against the bankruptcy estates of Girardi Keese and the now-disbarred Girardi.

“The bar needs to do in-house cleaning and investigation of the Girardi lawsuits and bring all of that to bear. ...