Tom Girardi, who claims his dementia makes him incompetent to stand trial, exited the courtroom holding a legal pad with handwritten notes. Trial Day 2 dispatch— news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gir…

I saw Girardi taking notes periodically throughout his trial today and I would give anything to get a peek at those

Girardi’s defense on the third day of his criminal trial sought to deflect the blame for clients of his firm going unpaid onto a former junior associate, who first joined the firm while still in law school. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gir…

Private jets, six-figure xmas parties, property taxes on the company card: Jury heard testimony about excesses at Girardi Keese in its heyday -- hours after a former client recounted her financial turmoil as she waited for missing settlement funds. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gir…

I went to a Chippendales show with !!! my mom !!! to report this story. Please read: Chippendales vs Strippendales: Six-pack abs, family dysfunction, legal battles latimes.com/california/sto…

Yesterday at Tom Girardi's trial we saw a scanned check written in 2007 directly from a Girardi Keese client trust account (which holds client settlement funds) to M&M Jewelers. It was for Erika Jayne's $750,000 diamond earrings. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gir…

Conservatives & business groups on mission to roll back judicial deference nationwide watched as the Supreme Court scrapped its own federal precedent—and then got back to work. Read our Bloomberg Law deep dive on the anti-agency push impacting the nation. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/che…

Four senior lawyers who worked at the Girardi Keese firm have been named as targets in a federal investigation, an IRS agent revealed yesterday. Bloomberg Law One of them--Christopher Aumais--doesn't appear to have a disciplinary record with the state bar news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/fou…

Girardi Keese lawyers met as the firm was collapsing in December 2020 — likely behind Thomas Girardi’s back — to discuss moving lawyers and cases to another LA-based personal injury law firm news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gir…

Thomas Girardi testified for about 45 minutes in his criminal trial today. He insisted his clients were paid all their funds. His lawyer asked, "What's my name?" “I have no idea. Bad, mean, terrible?” Girardi said. “It’s one of those.” news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gir…

NEW: Major structural deficiencies at Men's Central Jail could turn the decaying building into a deathtrap in the next earthquake. The county has known about this since at least 2006, and done none of the seismic retrofitting needed to fix it. latimes.com/california/sto…

Major drugmakers and pharmacy groups are weighing how they will implement the first Medicare negotiated drug prices amid concerns about reimbursement practices and the impact of pharmacy benefit managers on how prices reach eligible individuals. blawgo.com/Az5zLRd

Federal investigations into big-time litigators ✅ Secret parking garage meeting ✅ A bazillion in legal fees on the line ✅ That adds up to one helluva read from maia spoto, our LA courts correspondent, on what comes next in the Girardi fallout. Bloomberg Law news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gir…

I'll be on Bloomberg Radio discussing the Tom Girardi trial today at 6 PM Eastern / 3 PM Pacific time -- you can tune in here: bloomberg.com/audio

More than a month after California’s new indoor heat safety rule took effect, many workers we interviewed were unaware of the rule, had not been trained and did not have access to cool-down breaks as required. story w/ Rebecca Plevin latimes.com/california/sto…