A court-appointed attorney for Tom Girardi has recommended that the brother of the famed plaintiffs lawyer serve as temporary conservator of his estate for limited purposes, but not for him personally.

The recommendation, if granted, would open the door for Girardi’s brother, Robert Girardi, to hire an attorney in his Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings. No lawyers for Girardi or his firm, Girardi Keese, or Girardi himself, have so far appeared in the bankruptcy case.