Samuel Nnaemeka Anyagafu was admitted to the California Bar 4th December 1990, but has since been disbarred.
Lawyer Information
| Name | Samuel Nnaemeka Anyagafu |
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| First Admitted | 4 December 1990 (33 years, 5 months ago) |
| Status | Disbarred |
| Bar Number | 148421 |
Contact
| Phone Number | 925-906-1060 |
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| Fax Number | 925-906-1063 |
Address
| Current Address | 319 Lennon Ln Walnut Creek, CA 94598 |
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History
| 25 April 1998 | Disbarred (26 years ago) Disbarment 94-O-11185 |
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| 25 October 1997 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (26 years, 6 months ago) Ordered inactive 94-O-11185 |
| 18 May 1997 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (26 years, 11 months ago) Ordered inactive 95-O-14316 |
| 24 February 1997 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 95-O-14316 (27 years, 2 months ago) |
| 3 January 1997 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (27 years, 4 months ago) Inactive - Irreparable injury (6007c) 96-TE-04344 |
| 11 October 1996 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (27 years, 6 months ago) Ordered inactive 96-TE-04344 |
| 12 August 1996 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (27 years, 8 months ago) Suspended/Child & Fam Supp noncompliance |
| 29 February 1996 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 94-O-11185 (28 years, 2 months ago) |
| 1 January 1996 | Inactive (28 years, 4 months ago) |
| 4 December 1990 | Admitted to the State Bar of California (33 years, 5 months ago) |
Discipline Summaries
April 25, 1998 SAMUEL N. ANYA-GAFU [#148421], 38, of Walnut Creek was disbarred April 25, 1998, and ordered to comply with rule 955. In this default proceeding, Anya-Gafu misappropriated thousands of dollars from numerous clients and did not pay their share of settlement monies. He abused his client trust account by commingling personal and business funds and repeatedly allowed the balance of the account to drop below the required amount. He did not refund unearned fees in one immigration case, and did not file another immigration matter or repay advanced fees of more than $1,900. When the client hired a new lawyer who told Anya-Gafu that his actions could constitute malpractice, Anya-Gafu told the attorney that if the matter were pursued, he "would be sorry" and the client would not receive a refund. In a fraud scheme against a natural gas company, Anya-Gafu submitted false invoices for which the company paid more than $140,000 for deliveries of natural gas from Anya-Gafu to the company. The deliveries were never made. In a civil matter, he misappropriated funds by skimming $500 from a client's settlement proceeds and taking a 40 percent fee instead of the 34 percent he originally agreed to. He only paid the client her funds after denying receipt of the settlement check for more than two weeks. Between 1993-96, Anya-Gafu represented more than 200 claimants in a civil action arising from a toxic chemical spill in Contra Costa County. The court issued two restraining orders against him after the defendant found irregularities in signatures on claim questionnaires and releases submitted by clients, and found that Anya-Gafu had negotiated settlement checks without client endorsements. It was later discovered that one client executed multiple releases submitted for various claimants and that signatures on some releases did not match the signatures on the verification of claim questionnaires. "There is no question that [Anya-Gafu] repeatedly violated his fiduciary duty to a number of clients and others," wrote State Bar Court Judge Eugene Brott in his disbarment recommendation. "His misconduct as to his clients alone was exceptionally egregious and repeatedly violated fundamental precepts of the attorney-client relationship." |