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State Bar & Bar Associations
Dec. 19, 2019
Avenatti’s involuntary license deactivation hearing begins
LOS ANGELES -- A former client of Michael J. Avenatti described his slow realization that his attorney was defrauding him, telling a State Bar prosecutor on Wednesday he eventually hired a new lawyer to seek payment on a settlement "because at this point I believed Michael had taken the money."
LOS ANGELES -- A former client of Michael J. Avenatti described his slow realization that his attorney was defrauding him, telling a State Bar prosecutor on Wednesday he eventually hired a new lawyer to seek payment on a settlement "because at this point I believed Michael had taken the money."
Gregory Barela took the stand as the first witness in Avenatti's disciplinary hearing before a State Bar Court judge.
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