los angeles, CA 90008-4527
5 February 2025 | Disbarred (2 months, 3 weeks ago) Disbarment 24-O-30227 |
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4 October 2024 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (6 months, 4 weeks ago) Ordered inactive 24-N-30226 |
21 May 2024 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 24-N-30226 (11 months, 2 weeks ago) |
21 May 2024 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 24-O-30227 (11 months, 2 weeks ago) |
15 October 2023 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (1 year, 6 months ago) Discipline w/actual suspension 23-O-30183 |
1 July 2023 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (1 year, 10 months ago) Admin Inactive/CTAPP noncompliance |
1 July 2023 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (1 year, 10 months ago) Suspended, failed to pay fees |
13 February 2023 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 23-O-30183 (2 years, 2 months ago) |
10 February 2013 | Active (12 years, 2 months ago) |
12 November 2012 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (12 years, 5 months ago) Actual Suspension Delayed 11-O-12848 |
20 September 2012 | Probation with conditions 11-O-12848 (12 years, 7 months ago) |
27 September 1998 | Discipline, probation; no actual susp. 95-O-17148 (26 years, 7 months ago) |
3 November 1997 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 95-O-17148 (27 years, 6 months ago) |
15 September 1994 | Discipline, probation; no actual susp. 90-O-11668 (30 years, 7 months ago) |
15 December 1993 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 92-O-12792 (31 years, 4 months ago) |
11 June 1993 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 90-O-11668 (31 years, 11 months ago) |
14 January 1959 | Admitted to the State Bar of California (66 years, 4 months ago) |
September 20, 2012 PHILIP DEITCH, 80, of Santa Monica was suspended for two years, stayed, placed on three years of probation with a 90-day actual suspension and he was ordered to comply with rule 9.20 and take the MPRE. The order took effect Sept. 20, 2012, with the exception of the actual suspension and compliance with rule 9.20, which became effective Nov. 1, 2012. Deitch stipulated that he commingled funds in his client trust account by using the account to pay non-client related expenses, including checks to his wife, an employee, for rent and to the Internal Revenue Service.In mitigation, Deitch cooperated with the bar’s investigation, changed his office procedures, and he and his wife both had serious health problems. At the time he wrote the checks from his trust account, it held no client funds and thus no clients were harmed.He has a record of three prior disciplines, beginning in 1982, for failures to perform legal services competently, return client files, promptly pay client funds or take steps to protect his client’s interests when his representation ended. |