November 06, 2025
The brother of disgraced attorney Tom Girardi and the trustee for their now-defunct law firm, Girardi Keese, have reached an agreement resolving John Girardi's claim seeking legal fees for cases he worked on after leaving the firm, the trustee told the California bankruptcy court.
October 27, 2025
Bankruptcy trustees for disgraced California attorney Tom Girardi's defunct law firm and New York attorney Joseph DiNardo have filed suit to recover more than $3.1 million they allege should have been paid to a gas explosion settlement victim, but instead went to help finance food and beverage businesses.
July 29, 2024
American Express reached a $3 million deal to settle claims brought by the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee accusing the credit giant's banking unit and another subsidiary of enabling $50.25 million in fraudulent transfers as part of the now-defunct law firm's scheme to defraud creditors.
February 20, 2024
A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved an agreement between the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee, a former attorney for the firm and the Mandell Law Firm to end an adversary proceeding connected to $1.8 million in attorney fees from a lawsuit over the toxic Exide battery plant in Vernon, California.
December 05, 2023
A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee's bid to pay more than $3 million in fees to herself and other firms over the U.S. Trustee's Office's objection, pushing back on the notion that the interim request is "unprecedented" in a Chapter 7 case.
November 28, 2023
The federal government has objected to the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee's bid to pay more than $3 million in fees to herself and several other professionals, telling a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge the trustee has failed for nearly three years to analyze hundreds of millions of dollars worth of unsecured claims against the defunct law firm.
October 03, 2023
A California judge permanently tossed the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee's negligence claim in a suit alleging Western Alliance Bank enabled the law firm's fraud, noting Tuesday that while the trustee's suit lists federal regulations and duties imposed on banks, it doesn't point to any authority allowing a private right of action.
August 29, 2023
A California bankruptcy judge dismissed an adversary lawsuit on Tuesday brought by Girardi Keese's bankruptcy trustee seeking to recover $2.8 million allegedly paid to aircraft maintenance company BizJet as part of the disgraced firm's scheme to defraud creditors, but said amending the suit is a "simple" fix.
July 26, 2023
Girardi Keese's bankruptcy trustee has agreed to accept at least $1.2 million to settle a batch of recent adversary complaints that sought to recover more than $9.4 million the scandal-plagued firm spent in its final years, according to a Law360 analysis of court filings.
July 25, 2023
A California bankruptcy judge on Tuesday said he is open to the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee, a family of Girardi Keese victims and a secured creditor that is owed millions settling their differences in summary judgment motions, but first he wants to figure out what exactly they are fighting about.