California Bar’s Girardi Probe Records Cleared for Release (1)

Disgraced attorney Tom Girardi’s files can be released to the public under a new state bar-backed legal interpretation the California Supreme Court approved Wednesday.

Justices during their weekly meeting agreed with the California State Bar’s conclusion that the law allows releasing records linked to a closed investigation, a reading the bar said “would be more consistent with its current understanding of its public protection mission and policy of transparency.”

The Los Angeles Times had sued the bar, arguing that without information about how the agency handled, or mishandled, years of complaints about Girardi, “the public cannot hold the Bar accountable, ...