High profile L.A. lawyer Tom Girardi, who partly inspired the film Erin Brockovich, is embroiled in some serious legal troubles.Sep 24, 2021
The Fraud Lawsuit Erika and Tom were hit with a lawsuit in December 2020 that accused them of embezzling settlement funds intended to help the families of Lion Air Flight 610 victims.2 days ago
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Thomas Vincent Girardi is an American attorney and television personality, who is one of the founding partners of the Los Angeles based law firm, Girardi & Keese. Established in 1965, the firm has recovered $10 billion in verdicts and settlements.
He studied at Loyola High School (Los Angeles). Graduating in 1957, he went on to get his undergraduate degree from the Loyola Marymount University in 1962. Two years later, he received his Bachelor of Law degree from the Loyola Law School, and in 1965, ...
He and his team received official admonishment and Girardi & Keese was ordered to pay a fine for violating their duty of candour to the courts.
Girardi had once served as the President of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, a highly prestigious organization exclusive only to 500 trial lawyers. He became the first trial lawyer in history to serve on the California Judicial Council, the policymaking body of the California courts.
After their divorce, he married Kathy Riser in September 1993. That marriage ended in a divorce as well. In 1999, he married singer-dancer Erika Jayne, who is 32 years his junior. The couple lives in their 1920s-era mansion in Pasadena, California with Jayne’s son, Thomas Zizzo Jr., from a previous relationship.
He began practising in the same year, setting up the law firm with his friend Robert M. Keese. He was the first lawyer in the state of California to win over $1 billion in a lawsuit for a medical malpractice case in 1970.
Fifteen years after winning the case, in 2016, Girardi, along with his law firm, was sued by plaintiff Paul Kranich and attorney Peter Dion-Kindem for mis handling the funds awarded in the class-action lawsuit. In March, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit. According to Girardi, this wasn’t the first time that Dion-Kindem had sued them via one of the former Lockheed employees.
Tom Girardi’s brother, Robert Girardi, is serving as permanent conservator of Tom Girardi’s estate and person because of a diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. It is common for elderly persons with degenerative progressive conditions to require assistance in the management of their personal and financial affairs.
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Mike Papantonio: So here we have a lawyer that’s probably known better for the Erin Brockovich case. Although, you know, Erin did most of that case, Girardi didn’t do it. Archie Lamb: Right. Mike Papantonio: But he’s the one that got all, oh, this is a great lawyer. I think they settled that for $250 million.
Archie Lamb: Well, he’s accused of a lot of things and that’s, that’s misuse of his huge power through wealth. But the biggest problem is he violated the cardinal rule of all lawyers and that’s siphoned, siphoning off clients money for his own personal use.
Mike Papantonio: Yeah, there’s a story that is, it’s infuriating. The, the , the CEO for Hewlett Packard, the state, the state attorney had her on the ropes. The DOJ had her on the ropes.
Yes, with Brockovich, he got a lot of money, a lot of notoriety, but it’s how he used the wealth that really is what made the difference. The Supreme Court of California controls the bar, the leaders of the bar determine who gets investigated and how, and what Girardi did is he, he, he engendered this trust by campaign.
Aug. 19 2020, Updated 5:13 p.m. ET. Ever since Erika Girardi joined The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2015, the 49-year-old has spent a lot of time talking about her husband, Thomas Girardi, who’s 32 years her senior. But the reality star rarely mentions her only son, let alone her spouse’s children from his previous marriages.
Source: Instagram. Tommy currently lives with his mom and stepdad in Pasadena , but for a time, he stayed in NYC while Erika worked to make money in L.A. "I was always very responsible with our son and put his needs first," she said in her 2018 memoir.
Despite the distance between them, Erika revealed that she would visit Tommy every seven to 10 days. "Even though his school was back east, I was at every teacher conference, school play, graduation, and any other event I thought I should attend," she shared.
Thomas Girardi's children are around the same age as their stepmom. It’s unclear how many kids Thomas has with his first and second wives, but on a recent episode of RHOBH, Erika revealed that she gets along great with them. "I got very lucky that Tom has really nice kids... And I'm their age," the singer shared.