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Los Angeles, CA - A California judge on Tuesday chastised a lawyer representing former clients of Tom Girardi accusing the state bar of "rampant corruption," telling the attorney over the phone that he is "nonplussed" as to why he attempted to skip the hearing on the bar's motion to dismiss the case. When the hearing began, attorneys for the bar and some of its individual employees who are defendants in the suit were present in the courtroom, while Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stuart M. Rice noted that an attorney for the plaintiffs was apparently headed for the airport on his way out of town. That attorney, Daniel A. Osborne of Osborne Law PC, was on the phone, but the judge lectured him for not contacting the court to say that he planned to submit on the court's tentative ruling, which went almost entirely against his client but allowed leave to amend the complaint. "I spent my Memorial Day finishing this ruling," the judge said. "It's a tentative ruling, it says right on it, it's a tentative ruling, and I am nonplussed as to why plaintiff's counsel who worked so hard to write this complaint and oppose this demurrer would not be here." The judge added that his staff told him Osborne had flown into Los Angeles for the hearing from New York. The judge also said that instead of contacting the court and saying, "I'm going to stipulate and submit on the tentative," Osborne "just made his way to the airport" instead of making a court appearance. "Now, I don't know what's going on with you, Mr. Osborne, but you have to explain yourself," the judge added. Osborne apologized to the judge and said he saw the tentative ruling Monday night and "just assumed that was the ruling of the court." The judge told Osborne that even though a lawyer may want to submit on a tentative ruling, the court might still want to hear oral argument and appearances from counsel. The judge added that counsel who wish to submit on a tentative must still call or write in to the court, but "you did none of that, and just made an assumption and headed to the airport, which is really surprising." Following arguments from the parties, the judge made the tentative the final ruling, which sustained the defendants' demurrer on all claims but with leave to amend, except for an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim, which was sustained without leave to amend because the plaintiffs stipulated to dropping the claim. The putative class action was filed in September against the state bar and some of its former high-level employees by Ana Agaton and Arturo Emanuel Agaton, alleging the bar was negligent in its handling of Girardi, who has been disbarred and is facing federal criminal charges over allegations he and his defunct firm, Girardi Keese, stole millions from clients.