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State Bar & Bar Associations

Nov. 21, 2022

California legal system too tainted to deal with Girardi, law firm argues

“Thomas Girardi openly boasted of his expansive web of control in Los Angeles and tried to bribe the Edelson firm into making this case go away by ‘join[ing] us at the hip’ in the eyes of the Southern California judiciary,” J. Eli Wade-Scott, an attorney with Edelson PC, wrote.

California legal system too tainted to deal with Girardi, law firm argues
Thomas V. Girardi.

A Chicago law firm wants to keep its conversion and fraud lawsuit against two former Girardi Keese lawyers in Illinois, arguing that the legal system in California and Los Angeles in particular is too tainted by disgraced plaintiffs’ attorney Thomas V. Girardi.

J. Eli Wade-Scott, an attorney with Edelson PC, which was Girardi Keese’s co-counsel in a lawsuit that in 2020 exposed the now-disbarred attorney’s misappropriation of clients’ settl...

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