By Amanda Bronstad | January 27, 2021
Monday's lawsuit accuses Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo, or the ACTS firm, of sending mass emails to former Girardi Keese clients with pending lawsuits over a 2015 gas leak in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles. ACTS founding partner Boris Treyzon says his firm has a Nov. 16 agreement with Girardi Keese to represent its clients.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 14, 2021
A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday ordered Los Angeles plaintiffs firm Girardi Keese and its founder, Tom Girardi, into Chapter 7 proceedings, leaving thousands of lawsuits on hold and now under the microscope of trustees. Some of the biggest cases include thousands of people in Los Angeles affected by a 2015 gas leak and victims of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 7, 2021
Elissa Miller, a partner at Los Angeles-based SulmeyerKupetz, will serve as interim trustee for the bankruptcy of Girardi Keese, according to a notice filed on Wednesday.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 5, 2021
At a Zoom hearing on Tuesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell, overseeing two Chapter 7 involuntary bankruptcy petitions filed last month, asked whether Girardi or his firm, Girardi Keese, were present. After a pause, he said, "Silence will tell me." He later issued an order authorizing a trustee to oversee the bankruptcy cases.
By Alaina Lancaster | December 18, 2020
Andy Goodman of Goodman Law Offices in Westlake Village filed the Chapter 7 petitions in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California on behalf of six creditors, including retired name partner Robert Keese.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 16, 2020
Creditors were planning to file within 48 hours, a lawyer for a litigation funder told U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin at a hearing on Wednesday. The court held off appointing a trustee to wait for the filing.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 22, 2020
Reed Smith, represented by counsel from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles, has argued that if David Molner's allegations were true, the Chapter 11 of Aramid Entertainment Fund, which he controlled, would not have been approved.
By Gary Kaplan and Janice Reicher | August 14, 2020
For those doing business with financially troubled companies, questions regarding whether and how to continue doing business with them will necessarily arise, wrote Farella Braun + Martel's Gary Kaplan and Janice Reicher.
By Samantha Stokes | July 30, 2020
Lynn LoPucki, a restructuring law professor at UCLA Law, said rate increases every year aren't a done deal, but if they do occur, there are few stakeholders in bankruptcy court that will keep rate increases in check.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | April 27, 2020
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman added insolvency and restructuring lawyers from DLA Piper and Reed Smith as part of a strategy to rebuild the practice.
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