Current Status:  Disbarred

This member is prohibited from practicing law in California by order of the California Supreme Court.

See below for more details.

Profile Information

The following information is from the official records of The State Bar of California.

Bar Number:	170057
Address:	Contreras & Campa LLP 633 W 5th St Ste 2600 Los Angeles, CA 90071	Phone Number:	(213) 480-8565
		Fax Number:	Not Available
		e-mail:	Not Available
County:	Los Angeles	Undergraduate School:	Simon Fraser Univ; Canada
District:	District 2
Sections:	None	Law School:	Southwestern Univ SOL; Los Angeles CA

Status History

Effective Date	Status Change
Present	Disbarred
8/13/2011	Disbarred
5/2/2009	Not Eligible To Practice Law
4/8/1994	Admitted to The State Bar of California

Explanation of member status

Actions Affecting Eligibility to Practice Law

Effective Date	Description	Case Number	Resulting Status
Disciplinary and Related Actions Overview of the attorney discipline system.
8/13/2011	Disbarment	07-O-11108	Disbarred
3/7/2011	Ordered inactive	07-O-11108	Not Eligible To Practice Law
12/30/2010	Ordered inactive	07-O-11108	Not Eligible To Practice Law
2/13/2010	Discipline w/actual suspension	07-O-10063	Not Eligible To Practice Law
5/2/2009	Ordered inactive	07-O-10063	Not Eligible To Practice Law
4/6/2006	Private reproval, public disclosure	04-O-12439
Administrative Actions
This member has no public record of administrative actions.

State Bar Court Cases

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Effective Date	Case Number	Description
8/13/2011	07-O-11108	Decision [PDF] [WORD]
2/13/2010	07-O-10063	Decision [PDF] [WORD]
4/6/2006	04-O-12439	Stipulation [PDF]

California Bar Journal Discipline Summaries

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August 13, 2011

DRAGO CAMPA [#170057], 45, of Los Angeles was disbarred Aug. 13, 2011, and was ordered to make restitution and comply with rule 9.20 of the California Rules of Court.

In a default matter, the State Bar Court found that Campa committed 10 acts of misconduct in two matters.

He settled a personal injury claim but did not pay his client’s medical bill or respond to the client’s inquiries. The bar court found that Campa did not respond to client inquiries, pay out client funds or cooperate with the bar’s investigation and he committed acts of moral turpitude by misappropriating $5,720 that was owed to the medical provider.

In the second matter, he was hired to represent an individual who was charged in Hawaii with various narcotic-related offenses, including but not limited to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Campa is not licensed to practice in Hawaii. The client paid him $80,000.

After telling the court at a detention hearing that he had filed an application to practice pro hac vice in the state, the court said it could find no record of his application and ordered him to file the application within four days. He filed late and the application was denied.

He made several misrepresentations to the court, practiced law in a jurisdiction where he was not admitted, submitted a false declaration to the court, did not release his client’s file when he was fired, didn’t account for the $80,000 fee and committed acts of moral turpitude.

Campa was privately reproved in 2006, and in 2010, he was suspended and placed on probation in a default proceeding in which the court found he committed 13 acts of misconduct.

Judge Donald F. Miles recommended Campa’s disbarment “based on the egregious nature of the present misconduct, (his) prior record of discipline and his failure to participate in the present proceedings.”