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State Bar Raids Unauthorized Law Practice, Shuts It Down

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | April 29, 2008 

By a MetNews Staff Writer

The State Bar of California yesterday raided and shut down a Montebello company accused of providing immigration legal services without a law license.

In a coordinated effort with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, the State Bar shut down operations of RZ Services Inc. after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe issued an interim order assuming jurisdiction over the company’s practice because its owner, Romina Aida Zadorian, is not licensed to practice law in California.

The raid took place after the State Bar obtained the interim order pursuant to Business and Professions Code Sec. 6126.3. The law, which entered into effect in January 2006, allows a judge, on the petition of the State Bar, to grant the bar jurisdiction over a law practice if there is probable cause to believe that the practice is being illegally operated by a non-lawyer and that a client or other interested party is likely to be harmed if the practice continues.

Immediately after the order was issued, a team of State Bar investigators entered RZ Services’ offices and seized client files, served a court order on several banks to freeze the company’s accounts, and notified the phone company and the postal service to reroute phone calls and mail to the State Bar.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies also arrested Zadorian at her office. The district attorney has charged her with 46 counts of grand theft, four counts of forgery and one count of identity theft.

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