California Bar Association still hellbent on getting former Uwaydah attorney Matthew Rifat disbarred. Infamous Dr. Munir Uwaydah now suing Matthew for malpractice. Part 2
Now, attorney Matthew Rifat, who has just this past Wednesday been heard by the Review Board of the California Bar Association, has to wait 90 days from Wednesday to find out if he will get more discipline from the Bar and/or will ultimately get disbarred. So, it’s the waiting game… It will likely be a... Read More
California Bar Association still hellbent on getting former Uwaydah attorney Matthew Rifat disbarred. Infamous Dr. Munir Uwaydah now suing Matthew for malpractice.
The pitchforks don’t seem to cease raining down on Southern California attorney Matthew Rifat. And true to form, Dr. Uwaydah, who presently lives in Beirut, Lebanon, is following his pattern and practice of suing his former lawyers. He uses his lawyers up, pushes their ethics to the limits, spits them out, and then sues them. ... Read More
Why didn’t he get it? How did Matthew Rifat get blinded to Blue Oak Medical Group being steeped in workers’ compensation claims fraud? Part 2
How did Matthew Rifat get blinded to Frontline Medical and Firstline Health, predecessors to Blue Oak Medical, being steeped in the same kind of fraud—workers’ compensation claims fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy as Blue Oak? He did legal work and also provided bookkeeping services for all three of these entities. He was indicted by the... Read More
Why didn’t he get it? Why Matthew Rifat didn’t see the signs of fraud all around him from the beginning…
It has tormented this writer for months as to why Matthew Rifat didn’t understand for years that Dr. Munir Uwaydah was a dangerous client. There were so many clues all around him, and by June 4th 2013 the Kelly Soo Park trial for the murder of Juliana Redding concluded. That was the case that opened... Read More
Attorney Matthew Rifat gets his guilty verdict dismissed by the Riverside County Superior Court. But the California Bar still wants him disbarred.
Lawyer Matthew Rifat, who did legal work for Dr. Munir Uwaydah from 2013 until 2018, and also owned a bookkeeping service that provided service for Uwaydah’s Blue Oak Medical Group and Frontline and Firstline, was indicted in January 2019 by the Riverside County District Attorney. His case went to trial in the Summer of... Read More
Attorney Matthew Rifat gets seriously disciplined by the California State Bar Court judge, but he does not get disbarred. His trial character witnesses gave stellar reports of his moral character.
Matthew Rifat was disciplined by the California State Bar Court judge. After six years of prodigious litigation occurring as a consequence of being indicted by the Riverside County District Attorney in 2019, his debacle appears to have finally come to a close. His character witnesses at trial clearly made a tremendous impact on the court. ... Read More
Matthew Rifat’s final argument, final brief, finally comes to a close in his California Bar Trial. He had twenty pages worth to say.
The biggest problem attorney Matthew Rifat got into was doing too much work for Dr. Munir Uwaydah. He worked as a contract lawyer, the Law Offices of Matthew D. Rifat, and he worked as a contract bookkeeping service called Parkside Solutions. He started all this work back at the end of the Frontline Medical days,... Read More
Matthew Rifat expresses in final brief he felt confident and reassured because of an “absence of any indictment” from the Los Angeles case
Matthew Rifat, as his own attorney, wrote in the final brief for the California Bar trial, that Matthew the client studied numerous motions. These motions were filed in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s 2015 Indictment cases charging the “Criminal Organization Munir Uwaydah”. So, he studied them. Matthew asserted these motions showed fatal weaknesses in the... Read More
