Famed plaintiffs’ lawyer Tom Girardi and his firm Girardi Keese are formally in bankruptcy, despite a last-minute attempt by Girardi’s brother to delay the proceedings.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell on Wednesday placed the attorney and his law firm into Chapter 7 bankruptcy, nearly a month after a group of creditors who say they are allegedly owed millions of dollars by Girardi and his firm filed involuntary bankruptcy petitions against them in Los Angeles bankruptcy court.
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