Girardi Keese Trustee in Pact to Release Fire Suit Accord Money

The trustee for bankrupt Girardi Keese has made a pact with another firm to set aside more than $62,000 in disputed legal fees, clearing the way to release nearly $270,000 in settlement funds to a couple who’s son was killed in a massive fire.

Trustee Elissa Miller’s accord with the firm of Abir, Cohen, Treyzon & Salo LLP comes one week after the firm known as ACTS was relieved as special counsel to continue handling litigation over the 2016 blaze that killed the son of Gene and Colleen McCarty, by the trustee of attorney Thomas Girardi’s personal bankruptcy estate, Jason ...