Andrew Milton Bakker was admitted to the California Bar 30th May 1980, but is now resigned. Andrew graduated from UC Hastings COL.

Lawyer Information

NameAndrew Milton Bakker
First Admitted30 May 1980 (44 years, 11 months ago)
StatusResigned
Bar Number92493

Contact

Phone Number213-996-8518

Schools

Law SchoolUC Hastings COL (San Francisco CA)
Undergraduate SchoolWoodbury University (Burbank CA)

Address

Current AddressP O Box 882247
Los Angeles, CA 90009
Map

History

26 August 2000Resigned (24 years, 8 months ago)
Resignation with charges pending 00-Q-12161
5 June 2000Not eligible to practice law in CA (24 years, 11 months ago)
Vol.inactive(tender of resign.w/charges) 00-Q-12161
4 November 1999Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 99-O-12674 (25 years, 6 months ago)
28 October 1997Active (27 years, 6 months ago)
22 August 1997Not eligible to practice law in CA (27 years, 8 months ago)
Discipline w/actual suspension 95-O-11628
9 April 1996Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 95-O-11628 (29 years ago)
17 December 1995Discipline, probation; no actual susp. 95-O-10294 (29 years, 4 months ago)
30 August 1994Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 91-O-05689 (30 years, 8 months ago)
30 May 1980Admitted to the State Bar of California (44 years, 11 months ago)

Discipline Summaries

August 22, 1997

ANDREW M. BAKKER [392493], 53, of Los Angeles was suspended for one year, stayed, and placed on two years of probation with an actual 60-day suspension. The order took effect Aug. 22, 1997.

Bakker was hired to handle a client’s tax obligations during a four-year period the client served abroad as a missionary. Although the client advised Bakker at one point that his employer was not deducting sufficient sums for his social security insurance, Bakker wrote only one letter and failed to pursue the matter further.

When the client returned home, he owed more than $12,000 in taxes, penalties and interest.

Bakker stipulated that he failed to perform legal services competently.

When the client retired several years later, he learned that no tax credits had been placed into his social security account for the preceding six years. He asked Bakker to handle subsequent notices he received from the IRS; with a couple of exceptions, Bakker did not respond to his client’s phone calls or letters.

In another matter involving the same client, Bakker induced his client to make a short term mortgage loan of $10,000 to finance another client’s investment. Bakker said the money would be repaid, with interest, within six months.

About six months later, Bakker wrote a check on his general account for $11,500 as purported repayment of the loan. The check bounced.

Bakker also failed to advise his client that he could seek independent counsel concerning the loan, and failed to obtain the client’s consent to terms of the transaction in writing.

Bakker was previously disciplined in 1995.

In mitigation, he cooperated with the bar’s investigation.

December 17, 1995

ANDREW MILTON BAKKER [#92493], 52, of Los Angeles was suspended for six months, stayed, and placed on probation for one year, effective Dec. 17, 1995. He was ordered to pass the CPRE.

Bakker's misconduct involved failure to communicate, supervise his staff, retain entrusted funds in his client trust account, pay medical liens, and commingling and improper withdrawal.

In one instance, a member of Bakker's staff erroneously told a medical provider that a case had not been settled when in fact it had. After a disciplinary complaint was filed against him, Bakker paid the provider.

In an immigration matter, Bakker missed a hearing and his client was ordered deported. Although Bakker investigated reversing the order, he did not communicate with his client regarding her case.

In mitigation, Bakker was admitted to the bar in 1980 and has no prior record of discipline. In 1991, he hired an accountant and took other corrective measures to properly maintain his client trust account.