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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
February 9, 2023 | The Recorder
Christopher Kamon, who was Girardi Keese's CFO from 2004 to 2020, appeared virtually in a federal court in Chicago on Thursday for his arraignment.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
February 9, 2023 | The Recorder
"This case is an example of a wealthy client (Facebook) and its high-powered law firm (Gibson Dunn) using delay, misdirection, and frivolous arguments to make litigation unfairly difficult and expensive for their opponents," U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 8, 2023 | Law.com
At a Tuesday hearing in Los Angeles, Larry Gabriel, an attorney for Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee Elissa Miller, implored U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell to allow him to amend his complaint against the firm's lender. "This is too big of a case to be given one shot," he said.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 6, 2023 | The Recorder
Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Stevenson entered the plea at an arraignment hearing in downtown Los Angeles and granted a request from Tom Girardi's lawyers to file documents under seal about his "medical and mental health exam."
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
February 3, 2023 | The Recorder
Lawyers gave closing arguments on Friday at the end of a three-week trial over Musk's 2018 tweets about taking Tesla private. Defense attorney Alex Spiro told jurors the Tesla CEO wasn't some 'fire-breathing tweeting monster.'
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 1, 2023 | Law.com
On Wednesday, prosecutors in Los Angeles and Chicago announced indictments against Girardi, formerly of now defunct Girardi Keese, alleging he embezzled $18 million in settlements from his own clients.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
January 30, 2023 | Law.com
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a bankruptcy judge's decision, concluding that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management was not in financial distress at the time it filed its Chapter 11 case in 2021.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
January 30, 2023 | Law.com
In lawsuits, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever and others are challenging the scientific methods used by Valisure, the Connecticut laboratory whose reports have prompted recalls, and subsequent class actions, over drugs, sunscreen and dry shampoo.
By Amanda Bronstad
10 minute read
January 25, 2023 | Law.com
Plaintiffs suing over combat earplugs filed a brief on Wednesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to affirm an Aug. 26 bankruptcy decision not to extend a Chapter 11 case's automatic stay to include the debtor's parent corporation, 3M.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
January 20, 2023 | The Recorder
At a Friday hearing, U.S. District Judge William Orrick III granted preliminary approval of Juul's settlement, which resolves economic claims brought by its customers.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
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