Girardi Keese

  1. July 29, 2024

    Amex Inks $3M Deal To Settle Girardi Bankruptcy Suit Claims

    American Express reached a $3 million deal to settle claims brought by the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee accusing the credit giant's banking unit and another subsidiary of enabling $50.25 million in fraudulent transfers as part of the now-defunct law firm's scheme to defraud creditors.

  2. February 20, 2024

    Girardi Keese Trustee Recovers $1.8M In Fees For Exide Case

    A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved an agreement between the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee, a former attorney for the firm and the Mandell Law Firm to end an adversary proceeding connected to $1.8 million in attorney fees from a lawsuit over the toxic Exide battery plant in Vernon, California.

  3. December 05, 2023

    Girardi Keese Trustee's $3M Fees OK'd Over Feds' Objection

    A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee's bid to pay more than $3 million in fees to herself and other firms over the U.S. Trustee's Office's objection, pushing back on the notion that the interim request is "unprecedented" in a Chapter 7 case.

  4. November 28, 2023

    Feds Fight Girardi Keese Trustee's Professional Fee Requests

    The federal government has objected to the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee's bid to pay more than $3 million in fees to herself and several other professionals, telling a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge the trustee has failed for nearly three years to analyze hundreds of millions of dollars worth of unsecured claims against the defunct law firm.

  5. October 03, 2023

    Girardi Keese Trustee's Negligence Claim Against Bank Axed

    A California judge permanently tossed the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee's negligence claim in a suit alleging Western Alliance Bank enabled the law firm's fraud, noting Tuesday that while the trustee's suit lists federal regulations and duties imposed on banks, it doesn't point to any authority allowing a private right of action.

  6. August 29, 2023

    Girardi Keese Trustee's BizJet Adversary Suit Gets 2nd Flight

    A California bankruptcy judge dismissed an adversary lawsuit on Tuesday brought by Girardi Keese's bankruptcy trustee seeking to recover $2.8 million allegedly paid to aircraft maintenance company BizJet as part of the disgraced firm's scheme to defraud creditors, but said amending the suit is a "simple" fix. 

  7. July 26, 2023

    Girardi Keese Trustee Reaches $1.2M In Adversary Deals

    Girardi Keese's bankruptcy trustee has agreed to accept at least $1.2 million to settle a batch of recent adversary complaints that sought to recover more than $9.4 million the scandal-plagued firm spent in its final years, according to a Law360 analysis of court filings.

  8. July 25, 2023

    'What're You Fighting About?' Judge Asks Girardi Claimants

    A California bankruptcy judge on Tuesday said he is open to the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee, a family of Girardi Keese victims and a secured creditor that is owed millions settling their differences in summary judgment motions, but first he wants to figure out what exactly they are fighting about.

  9. April 12, 2023

    Girardi Trustees Defend Deal With Embattled Legal Lenders

    Bankruptcy trustees for former trial lawyer Tom Girardi and his law firm Girardi Keese have urged a Los Angeles federal judge to toss objections to their plan to pay off a lender accused of playing a role in the firm's scandalous downfall, saying Wednesday the payment would resolve costly litigation and clear the way for money to flow to other creditors.

  10. February 07, 2023

    Girardi Trustee's Claims Against Litigation Funder Axed

    A California federal judge has thrown out the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee's claims that New York litigation lenders owned by a convicted felon drove thousands of cases to disgraced attorney Thomas Girardi and his law firm and helped him loot millions of dollars from clients, counsel for the funders confirmed Tuesday.