Girardi Convicted, Focus Turns to Failed Firm’s Other Attorneys

Girardi Keese attorneys knew the firm was collapsing in 2020 as Thomas Girardi‘s theft of client money was coming to light—and one former firm lawyer clawed for its most lucrative cases.

A group met in a parking garage, behind the firm leader’s back, to speak with former Girardi Keese lawyer Robert Finnerty, Girardi’s secretary revealed from the witness stand during her former boss’s Los Angeles trial. Finnerty at the time was lobbying for cases—including thousands of the firm’s lucrative Porter Ranch matters—to come to Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo, where he worked.

ACTS and Girardi Keese struck a deal ...