Lawyer in Girardi bankruptcy out after stormy tenure

Ronald Richards said “the Trustee and I jointly determined that a change in counsel is in the best interests of the estate,” Another lawyer said he was fired.

Ronald N. Richards, who was hired by the bankruptcy trustee of famed plaintiffs' attorney Thomas V. Girardi's law firm to investigate and recover any assets that had been transferred to his wife, is out as special litigation counsel.

Elissa D. Miller, a partner with SulmeyerKupetz who is handling the Girardi Keese bankruptcy, replaced Richards with Larry W. Gabriel, a Jenkins Mulligan & Gabriel LLP partner in a Thursday filing. She decl...

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