Randall Dean Mason was admitted to the California Bar 6th May 2001, but has since been disbarred. Randall graduated from University of N. Calif/Lorenzo Patino SOL.

Lawyer Information

NameRandall Dean Mason
First Admitted6 May 2001 (22 years, 11 months ago)
StatusDisbarred
Bar Number212858

Contact

Phone Number916-868-5519
Fax Number916-487-1709

Schools

Law SchoolUniversity of N. Calif/Lorenzo Patino SOL (CA)
Undergraduate SchoolSee Registration Card

Address

Current AddressAttorney at Law, PO Box 790
Citrus Heights, CA 95611
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History

2 August 2007Disbarred (16 years, 8 months ago)
Disbarment 05-O-00595
24 February 2007Not eligible to practice law in CA (17 years, 1 month ago)
Ordered inactive 05-O-00595
8 December 2006Not eligible to practice law in CA (17 years, 4 months ago)
Ordered inactive 06-TR-14986
15 October 2006Not eligible to practice law in CA (17 years, 6 months ago)
Ordered inactive 05-O-00595
18 September 2006Not eligible to practice law in CA (17 years, 7 months ago)
Suspended, failed to pay fees
22 August 2006Not eligible to practice law in CA (17 years, 8 months ago)
Ordered Inactive/Fee Arb/B&P 6203
28 April 2006Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 05-O-03658 (17 years, 12 months ago)
30 March 2006Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 05-O-00595 (18 years ago)
6 May 2001Admitted to the State Bar of California (22 years, 11 months ago)

Discipline Summaries

August 2, 2007

RANDALL D. MASON [#212858], 36, of Citrus Heights was disbarred Aug. 2, 2007, and was ordered to comply with rule 9.20 of the California Rules of Court. He also was ordered to make restitution to five clients.

The State Bar Court found that Mason committed 26 acts of misconduct in six client matters, including failing to perform legal services competently, return unearned fees, communicate with clients or cooperate with the bar’s investigation, and he improperly withdrew from employment and committed an act of moral turpitude. The court found that he began his misconduct within three years of his admission to practice.

Several clients had to hire new lawyers, one lost some of her pension benefits and another was without representation during her divorce trial. He failed to return unearned fees of $6,200.

One client hired Mason to help her secure a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) regarding benefits through a Timber Operators Council. The attorney for the council informed Mason that the draft of the QDRO he prepared was defective, provided a sample of the language for the pension plan and asked Mason to redraft the order.

Although aware that time was of the essence and despite his client’s many phone calls, Mason did not revise the QDRO and the file was closed. The pension attorney, however, told Mason that it would be reopened if he filed a revised QDRO.

Mason had told the client the QDRO had been approved and sent to her ex-husband for review and signature. When she said the husband had received nothing, Mason said he would send the document again.

When the client learned the file was closed, Mason told her he had proof that the other attorney had approved language changes in the QDRO. In fact, he did no further work and the client won a small claims judgment against Mason. He did not refund her unearned fee. She lost almost $2,500 in benefits due to Mason’s failure to file the QDRO on time.

In a divorce case, Mason did little work other than file a response on behalf of his client three months after she signed it. He did not refund his client’s unearned fee, appear at a mandatory settlement conference or respond to his client’s letters and phone calls. He remained attorney of record until he filed a substitution of attorney form three days before trial. The client did not have the money to hire a new lawyer or to travel from Tacoma, Wash., where she lived, to the trial. A judgment was entered against her.

Mason essentially abandoned three clients in their divorce matters, abandoned his law office, did not pay a fee arbitration award, and provided no legal services to a client who was seeking modification of child custody and support orders.

In recommending that Mason be disbarred, Judge Pat McElroy wrote, “there is clear and convincing evidence that (he) had engaged in a pattern of abandoning his clients without performing the legal services for which he was employed.”

Mason did not participate in the disbarment proceedings.