By Amanda Bronstad | July 6, 2021
A 2011 Cadillac, an album of The Beach Boys and law books are among the possible items at the former Girardi Keese law firm that a bankruptcy trustee wants to sell at an upcoming auction Miller told a bankruptcy judge Tuesday. "With the notoriety of the case, we're hoping people will want to buy all kinds of crazy things that normally we would trash," she said.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 25, 2021
Jayne, who stars on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," has brought in Evan Borges, a partner at Greenberg Gross, who filed a motion to boot Ronald Richards from serving as the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee's special litigation counsel. Borges cited "false and inflammatory social media posts" by Richards, who is seeking documents from Jayne's accountant, landlord and divorce attorney.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 21, 2021
After sifting through piles of disorganized files at Girardi Keese's downtown Los Angeles office, bankruptcy trustee Elissa Miller has chosen law firms to take over the representation of a large share of thousands of Tom Girardi's clients who had pending claims after the sudden collapse of his law firm.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 13, 2021
Bankruptcy trustees have brought in outside counsel to pursue allegations that Tom Girardi's estranged wife, Erika Jayne, who stars on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," might have received millions of dollars in fraudulent funds. Jayne has opposed one trustee's request to hire Beverly Hills attorney Ronald Richards, who is involved in a case against Girardi and has made 290 social media posts about her with "tabloid-style publicity" since Dec. 4.
By Nate Robson | April 29, 2021
A federal judge said tactics used by the opposition, represented by Williams & Connolly, inflated litigation costs despite the amount of damages on the line.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 27, 2021
A trustee told a bankruptcy judge Tuesday that a downtown Los Angeles office building once housing Girardi Keese is being sold, while Girardi's home in Pasadena, "will soon be on the market within a few days."
By Amanda Bronstad | April 16, 2021
"To say the offices were a mess is an understatement," wrote bankruptcy trustee Elissa Miller, referring to the firm's accounting department, according to an April 13 status report.
By Michael A. Mora | April 14, 2021
"Do I think Ponzi schemes will end? Of course not," said Akerman partner Michael I. Goldberg. "But he raised the awareness that they exist."
By Amanda Bronstad | April 6, 2021
Elissa Miller, of SulmeyerKupetz in Los Angeles, the trustee appointed in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy case of Tom Girardi's former firm, disclosed the missing client funds at a Tuesday court hearing on Zoom in which she sought access to cash in order to continue digging through client files for pending cases.
By Christine Simmons | March 5, 2021
The profit increase was "really about the top line," Wolf said, noting associate fall bonuses offset any cost-savings.
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