Girardi Keese

  1. January 10, 2023

    Girardi Keese Trustee Blames Bank For Enabling Firm's Fraud

    The bankruptcy trustee for Girardi Keese on Tuesday accused a California bank of allowing the firm to misappropriate client funds despite numerous red flags and "suspicious activity" that she said "could not have gone unnoticed" by the financial institution, according to a complaint filed in federal bankruptcy court.

  2. January 10, 2023

    Girardi Keese Trustee Sues Firm's Former Attys For $9.4M

    Ten former Girardi Keese attorneys may owe $9.4 million to the firm to repay checks and personal charges on their company credit cards, the firm's bankruptcy trustee alleged in a series of adversary actions filed this week in Los Angeles.

  3. January 05, 2023

    Girardi Keese Trustee Goes After $48M In Suspect Payments

    In the seven years before Girardi Keese went bankrupt, the Los Angeles law firm spent over $48 million on nonbusiness-related expenses such as paying off its employees' gambling debt, bankrolling live entertainment productions, and bleeding millions into possibly fraudulent "straw" companies, according to the firm's bankruptcy trustee.

  4. September 01, 2022

    Litigation Funders Helped Girardi 'Loot' Client Funds: Trustee

    New York litigation lenders owned by a convicted felon drove thousands of cases to Thomas V. Girardi and helped him "loot" more than $23 million from his clients' trust accounts for years before his firm Girardi Keese fell into insolvency, according to an explosive new adversary complaint filed in Los Angeles bankruptcy court.

  5. August 30, 2022

    Girardi Victims Sue Defunct Firm's Litigation Funders

    A family of Girardi Keese victims sued litigation lenders and other secured creditors in the defunct law firm's bankruptcy case Tuesday, saying the lenders improperly accepted money that belonged to the law firm's clients and challenging the validity and priority of more than $37 million in claims.

  6. June 29, 2022

    Sears Lease Fight Hits High Court, Gulf Coast Plan Approved

    The U.S. Supreme Court took up a lease fight between Sears Holdings and the Mall of America, Gulf Coast Health Care got its Chapter 11 plan confirmed, and contractors owed money by the owner of the Carolina Panthers want a bankruptcy venue transfer. This is the week in bankruptcy.

  7. June 28, 2022

    Erika Girardi Ordered To Turn Over Pricey Diamond Earrings

    Reality television star Erika Girardi must turn over to a bankruptcy trustee a pair of diamond earrings that her estranged husband, the disbarred attorney Thomas V. Girardi, bought in 2007 for $750,000, a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge said Tuesday, finding that it was clear that stolen funds were used to buy them. 

  8. May 09, 2022

    Calif. Bar, Girardi Trustee Reach Deal On Records Handover

    The California bar and the trustee for the bankrupt Girardi Keese firm asked a federal judge on Monday to approve a deal in which the trustee will share records with the bar for an ongoing probe of its handling of past complaints against Thomas V. Girardi.

  9. February 16, 2022

    Girardi Keese Trustee Asks Again To Probe Litigation Lenders

    Girardi Keese's bankruptcy trustee is trying to hire lawyers to investigate whether litigation lenders improperly lent tens of millions of dollars to the firm, seeking approval from a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge who rejected her first — and perhaps more expensive — choice of counsel.

  10. November 12, 2021

    Girardi Keese Trustee Swaps Out Attorney Amid Squabbling

    Girardi Keese's bankruptcy trustee is replacing the attorney she hired to find millions of dollars that the firm gave to its founder's wife, reality-TV star Erika Girardi, after the investigation devolved into a series of public feuds in the courts and on social media.