By Amanda Bronstad | January 12, 2021
On Monday, a federal judge preliminarily approved the settlement, which resolves claims for a potential 6,600 class members that Dr. James Heaps either made inappropriate comments or violated them with sexually invasive exams from 1983 to 2018. At least one firm plans to opt out of the deal on behalf of 140 women.
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By Dan Roe | January 8, 2021
The relative stagnancy bodes well for the health of the legal industry, which is poised to see a wave of hiring in 2021, said Major, Lindsey & Africa president John Cashman.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 8, 2021
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin of the Northern District of Illinois, who last month ordered a $2 million contempt judgment against plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi for failing to pay settlement funds over Boeing's 2018 Max 8 aircraft crash, said he wants a hearing in person to decide the potential roles played by ex-Girardi Keese lawyers David Lira and Keith Griffin.
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 7, 2021
A bankruptcy judge ordered the appointment of a trustee to protect the assets of Tom Girardi and his firm, even after the plaintiffs' attorney failed to show up at the first hearing.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 6, 2021
Jay Edelson, who obtained a $2 million contempt judgment against Tom Girardi last month, maintained in a court filing on Tuesday that he didn't act alone, but worked with two former lawyers, Keith Griffin and David Lira, to create a "coordinated false narrative" that Boeing was holding up missing settlement payments to clients.
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 Dan Roe | January 5, 2021
The new firm — Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman — has about 85 lawyers now and will have 100 lawyers by the second quarter of 2021, managing partner Glenn Phillips said.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 30, 2020
David Lira and Keith Griffin, who left Los Angeles-based Girardi Keese this year, insisted in court papers that Tom Girardi, founder of Girardi Keese, had sole control over wire transfers at the firm and that they alerted him repeatedly about clients whose settlements over Boeing's Max 8 crash in 2018 remained unpaid.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 30, 2020
Looking back at 2020, pandemic lawsuits were plentiful, but not as big as predicted.
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