SAN FRANCISCO — The career for one of the Bay Area’s most famous defense attorneys has come to its abrupt end, after she pleaded no contest to numerous instances of misconduct that included fleecing people, lying about her work, and causing “significant harm” to clients in the process.

Claire White was publicly known for her courtroom successes and fiery online social media personality, where she dolled out legal tips and war stories on Instagram, described police officers as “pigs,” railed against “snitches,” and celebrated legal wills, all under her own law firm’s slogan, “We fight, (expletive) you.”

But state bar officials linked White to 40 counts of misconduct, involving 10 clients, over a six-year period, including “acts of moral turpitude (misappropriation and conversion), misrepr

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