[3] Girardi, Kamon and attorney David Lira are also facing disbarment trials and federal wire fraud charges in Chicago.
Residents of the Mojave Desert community of Hinkley, California, blamed incidents of cancer and other diseases on contaminated water leaked from a gas pumping station owned and operated by PG&E.
[8] In 2007, Merck created a $4.85 billion settlement fund for the thousands of plaintiffs who complained of complications associated with its pain medication Vioxx.
[9] The firm represented some of the families affected by the October 2018 crash of Lion Air Flight 610 in Indonesia that killed 189 people aboard the plane.
[4] With disbarment trials also pending, a state bar judge sanctioned Lira and Kamon in January 2023, for both mishandling and for not protecting client assets.
[1] In January 2021, Girardi was removed from California Governor Gavin Newsom's Judicial Selection Advisory Committee, which vets judges for the state bench.