Amanda Bronstad
Staff Reporter at Law.com
Staff reporter for ALM (https://t.co/k04dvIo21Y) covering mass torts and class actions across the country.
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law.com | Amanda Bronstad
Tom Girardi was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison last week for stealing millions of dollars from his clients. Girardi, 86, now with dementia and in poor health, was a titan in the mass tort plaintiffs’ bar before his firm, Girardi Keese, collapsed and prosecutors charged him with embezzling settlement funds from his own clients to support a lifestyle featured on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” On Aug.
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3 weeks ago |
law.com | Amanda Bronstad
Former Girardi Keese partner David Lira pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges related to the 2018 Lion Air crash, two days after the firm’s founder, Tom Girardi, was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison. Lira, who was scheduled for trial next month before U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland, of the Northern District of Illinois, pleaded guilty to one count of failing to comply with a court order to pay Lion Air clients their settlements with Boeing.
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3 weeks ago |
law.com | Amanda Bronstad
A federal appeals court dismantled certification of a class of Marriott International Inc. guests whose personal information was hacked in 2018. Tuesday’s ruling is the second that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has entered over class certification in the Marriott data breach case. In 2023, the Fourth Circuit remanded the case for further discussion, but this time, in a big win for Marriott, reversed U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey’s class certification order entirely.
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3 weeks ago |
law.com | Amanda Bronstad
Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. This week: A federal judge sentenced Tom Girardi, 86 and with dementia, to more than seven years in federal prison. The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas set up two new mass tort dockets involving hair relaxers and Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder, and a third might be approved.
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3 weeks ago |
law.com | Amanda Bronstad
Tom Girardi, the once-lauded mass tort plaintiffs’ lawyer and founder of Los Angeles-based Girardi Keese, was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison Tuesday. “Instead of fighting against the powerful, he was the one with the power,” U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton told a courtroom filled with lawyers, spectators and victims at Girardi's sentencing hearing. “For someone who was a champion for the little guy, I saw no supporting letters from the little guy.”
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Edelson's Ali Moghaddas talked to https://t.co/qKGr7yceMN about his prosecution of Tom Girardi, who was sentenced this week to 7+ years in prison. "He tried his shtick, tried to be charming," Moghaddas, who cross examined Girardi, said. https://t.co/0fa441c0LZ
Former Girardi Keese partner David Lira, son-in-law to Tom Girardi, pleaded guilty today on charges relating to the firm's clients in the Lion Air crash of 2018. https://t.co/zEbrknfOLl
In a big loss for the plaintiffs' bar, Marriott won reversal of class certification in its long-running litigation over a 2018 data breach. https://t.co/Kd3yd4JW3Q