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IN RE GIRARDI

Nos. 08-80090, 03-57038.

611 F.3d 1027 (2010)

In re Thomas V. GIRARDI, Esq.; Walter J. Lack, Esq.; Paul A. Traina, Esq., et al., Respondents. Sonia Eduarda Franco Franco; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dow Chemical Company; et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

July 13, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane L. Karpman, Esquire, Karpman & Associates, Beverly Hills, CA, for Respondent, Thomas V. Girardi, Esq.

Thomas Jerome Nolan, Esquire, Trial, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent, Thomas V. Girardi, Esq., Girardi & Keese.

Robert Craig Baker, Esquire, Baker, Keener & Nahra, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent, Walter J. Lack, Esq., Sean A. Topp, Esq., Paul A. Traina, Esq. and Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack.

Walter J. Lack, Los Angeles, CA, pro se.

Paul A. Traina, Los Angeles, CA, pro se.

Rory K. Little, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA, for Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack.

Before WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, MARSHA S. BERZON, N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

ORDER

We must decide the appropriate discipline in the case of respondents Thomas V. Girardi, Walter J. Lack, Paul A. Traina, and a junior associate in Lack's firm. Respondents attempted to enforce a putative foreign judgment for $489 million in district court but failed. They undertook and maintained an appeal to this court although they knew, at least by the time defendants filed a motion to supplement the record in this court, that the document they offered as...

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