Los Angeles, CA 90025
23 April 2005 | Disbarred (20 years ago) Disbarment 00-C-11715 |
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3 September 2002 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (22 years, 8 months ago) Admin Inactive/MCLE noncompliance |
20 July 2001 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (23 years, 9 months ago) Interim suspension after conviction 00-C-11715 |
13 June 2001 | Conviction record transmitted to State Bar Court 00-C-11715 (23 years, 10 months ago) |
21 December 1977 | Admitted to the State Bar of California (47 years, 4 months ago) |
April 24, 2005 JOHN J. REINER [#77867], 57, of Los Angeles was summarily disbarred April 24, 2005, and was ordered to comply with rule 955. In 2001, Reiner was convicted of two counts of attempted extortion and one count of conspiracy to commit extortion. Both are felonies that involve moral turpitude.The convictions stemmed from Reiner's effort to extort $310,000 from attorney Edward Masry and Erin Brockovich by threatening that unless paid for their silence, two individuals would go to the media and claim that Masry and Brockovich had a sexual relationship and that Brockovich was a bad mother.July 20, 2001 JOHN JEFFREY REINER [#77867], 54, of Los Angeles was placed on interim suspension July 20, 2001, following a felony conviction of extortion. |