FILE – Attorney Tom Girardi smiles outside the Los Angeles courthouse on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Disbarred attorney Girardi makes his first appearance Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in federal court on charges that he embezzled millions of dollars from some of the large settlements he won for clients. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Damian Dovarganes AP LOS ANGELES Disbarred lawyer Tom Girardi had not guilty pleas entered on his behalf Monday on charges he embezzled millions of dollars from some of the massive settlements he won for clients during a once prominent career. [–Girardi, 83, is charged in Los Angeles federal court with wire fraud for allegedly stealing more than $15 million from clients that included an Arizona widow whose husband was killed in boat accident, a Los Angeles couple injured in a car wreck that paralyzed their son and a man who was severely burned in the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.…
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LIV Golf lawyers argue PGA Tour is ‘exploiting litigation’ after request to delay antitrust trial, discovery schedule
Lawyers for both the PGA Tour and LIV Golf filed a joint motion Sunday to the US District Court for Northern California to ask for a case management conference to discuss delaying the current trial date and extending the discovery schedule for the ongoing antitrust lawsuit. US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman is overseeing the trial that is currently set for January 2024. The deadline for complete document discovery is March 30. The fact discovery deadline is May 26. Lawyers for the upstart circuit led by Greg Norman and financially supported by the Public Investment Fund argued “the Tour is exploiting litigation delay to choke off air to LIV and players” and that the current timeframes are “not only workable, but critical to the careers of the Player Plaintiffs and the viability of LIV as a legitimate competitor to the Tour.”…
Trump indictment drama intensifies with yet another lawyer change
Within 24 hours of having been advised that he had been indicted by a federal grand jury, former President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he was getting a new lawyer to defend him against special counsel Jack Smith and the US government. Trump’s efforts to revamp his legal team are about as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as long as his lawyers cannot defend Trump from … himself. We’ve seen this before, with Trump’s penchant for changing legal counsel seems at the drop of a hat throughout his ongoing legal troubles.…