July 15, 2022
The State Bar of California wants copies of sealed records as part of a previously undisclosed investigation into two former Girardi Keese lawyers accused of helping the firm steal more than $2 million from settlements meant for widows and orphans of plane crash victims, according to a motion filed Friday in Chicago federal court.
June 30, 2022
After failing to reach an agreement in two of the last cases over a 2018 Lion Air plane crash, Boeing asked an Illinois federal court for a bench trial on Thursday under the Death on the High Seas Act to resolve and close the final suits from victims' estates.
April 19, 2022
Boeing told an Illinois federal judge on Monday that it has only three cases left to resolve over a 2018 Lion Air plane crash, but said settlement negotiations aren't succeeding and trials may be the best way to resolve them.
April 05, 2022
Edelson PC on Tuesday proposed paying millions of dollars to the widows and orphans of plane crash victims whose settlements were stolen by its disgraced co-counsel, Girardi Keese, and filing an explosive racketeering suit against members of the "Girardi Family Enterprise."
February 11, 2022
Edelson PC and two former Girardi Keese attorneys shared different takes Thursday on whether an Illinois federal judge can legally order the duo to pay certain plane crash clients about $2 million to make up for the settlement funds Thomas V. Girardi stole from them.
January 27, 2022
An Illinois federal judge probing contempt liability over Thomas V. Girardi's misappropriation of $2 million said Thursday that he'll accept separate charts reflecting certain Girardi & Keese accounts' cash flow, after learning a dispute arose over how to present the information to the court.
January 26, 2022
Reality television star Erika Girardi must surrender $750,000 diamond earrings that her husband, former trial attorney Thomas V. Girardi, bought with money he embezzled from his injured clients, a bankruptcy trustee told a Los Angeles judge this week.
December 16, 2021
If other lawyers had come forward as soon as they learned that Thomas V. Girardi failed to hand over millions of dollars of their clients' settlement funds, how much money would that have prevented from being embezzled?
December 14, 2021
Edelson PC founder Jay Edelson testified Tuesday that his firm waited to sound alarm bells on Thomas V. Girardi's suspected theft of at least $2 million in client settlement money because he wanted to make sure the firm wasn't basing its claims on "mush."
December 13, 2021
When Girardi Keese stole money from its clients' settlements last year, it was the firm's co-counsel at Edelson PC that alerted the court and the world.