“Daddy says it’s just a TINY little lie…”
In the legal profession, credibility is currency. Integrity is non-negotiable. And when an attorney—particularly a partner at a family law firm—faces allegations of perjury tied directly to an election-related filing, silence is not professionalism. It is complicity.
Yet that is exactly where Garelick Family Law finds itself today.
The Question No One at Garelick Family Law Will Answer
Public records confirm that Attorney Amanda K. Beall, age 35, lists a residential address in Newport Beach, with additional records reflecting an Irvine address—not Rancho Santa Margarita.
These are not minor discrepancies. They go directly to the truthfulness of statements she signed under penalty of perjury when executing city election nomination paperwork for her father, Councilmember Tony Beall.
A formal complaint has been filed, and the matter—according to multiple sources—is allegedly under investigation. And yet Amanda Beall refuses to confirm or deny the existence of that investigation.
What kind of law firm believes that one of its partners—facing allegations involving honesty, residency fraud, and sworn legal documents—can simply ignore questions of integrity and credibility?
What kind of partner thinks that’s acceptable?
An Ethical Crisis the Firm Pretends Doesn’t Exist
Any attorney knows: Perjury is not a technicality. It is a direct assault on the legal system itself.
If the allegations surrounding Amanda Beall are unfounded, a responsible attorney would say so. If they are true, then the silence becomes even more troubling—and the implications far more severe.
Meanwhile, the firm continues business as usual, as though a partner allegedly being investigated for perjury is a routine administrative hiccup.
This is not normal.
This is not ethical.
This is not credible.
It is a crisis of integrity, and every partner in that firm knows it.
Todd Spitzer’s Words Come Back to Haunt Him
District Attorney Todd Spitzer has made public, powerful statements on the absolute necessity of protecting election integrity, including this:
“American democracy relies on the absolute integrity of the electoral process…
Interference in the electoral process in any manner and at any stage jeopardizes the will of the people…
As the District Attorney of Orange County, I refuse to allow our electoral process to be subverted and exploited by anyone.”
Strong words! Words the public is entitled to apply equally—including to Rancho Santa Margarita’s own Tony Beall and his daughter Amanda.
Spitzer charged Scott Markowitz for nomination-paper misrepresentations. He publicly exposed Carol Gamble, and probably ended her long political career. He described his actions as necessary to protect voters and democracy.
So the question writes itself:
Does Todd Spitzer’s stated standard apply to Tony Beall and his daughter?
Or does a “bromance” change the rules?
The Evidence Is Staring Everyone in the Face
Public records list Amanda Beall’s residence in Newport Beach.
Her law firm lists her professional address in Irvine.
None of it aligns with her sworn claim of residency in Rancho Santa Margarita for the purpose of signing her father’s nomination paperwork (and voting.)
She cannot live in two places at once.
And the one place she does not live is the city where her father needed a resident to sign for him.
And Garelick Family Law—where truth matters, where credibility matters, where sworn statements matter—simply pretends none of this exists.
The Public Deserves an Answer, The Silence Speaks for Itself
No one is asking the firm to litigate in the press.
But when a partner is confronted with questions about a potential criminal investigation into perjury—and refuses to acknowledge or deny it—every client, every judge, every opposing attorney has a right to ask:
If truth is optional inside the firm, what else is?
Silence is not a shield.
Silence is an admission that the questions are valid, and the answers are dangerous.
The Bottom Line
The citizens of Rancho Santa Margarita deserve integrity in their elections.
The clients of Garelick Family Law deserve integrity in their attorneys.
And the District Attorney’s own stated standard requires that no one—including political allies—receives special protection.
Until Amanda Beall answers the allegations directly, the credibility problem is not just hers.
It now belongs to the entire firm that continues to stand behind her without explanation.
I’ve tried a case against Garelick.
Here is a naked partner at Garelick’s former employer in one of her less desirable moments. If I recall he was employed there then.
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2019/anka020619.htm
She is giving of Joanne Weiss vibes.
Why use a 30 year old picture of Spitzer?
Spitzer pick and chooses winners and losers in the political crime world.
He knows exactly who aided and abetted Markowitz’s perjury but they are Democrats in north Orange County where he doesn’t want antagonists. Why else just charge the nobody and nobody else?
Fine, I found a new Spitzer pic. (I illustrated this.)