Girardi Keese Lawyers Escape Contempt in Lion Air Funds Case (1)

Former Girardi Keese attorneys David Lira and Keith Griffin will not be held in contempt for their involvement in the Lion Air crash litigation during which millions of dollars due to victims was stolen, a Chicago federal judge said, adding that Edelson PC, prosecutors, and the state bars will “bring bad actors to account.”

Judge Thomas M. Durkin, US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday denied in a contempt motion filed by Chicago-based Edelson—Girardi Keese’s local counsel in the class-action litigation in the 2018 crash of a Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 airliner that killed ...