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    Case Update: Tom Girardi Disbarred by California Federal Court
    2021-09-22

    The hits keep coming for famed former plaintiff's attorney Thomas V. Girardi. Several weeks ago, Chief U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez has ensured that famed former plaintiff’s attorney Girardi will no longer be appearing on the record in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, officially disbarring him.

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    USA, California, Insolvency & Restructuring, Legal Practice, Litigation, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
    Authors:
    Elizabeth Tuttle Newman
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
    Real Litigation of Beverly Hills: Ethics Lessons from the Thomas Girardi Bankruptcy Case
    2021-08-04

    Contested conservatorships, feuds over NFL fee payouts, Twitter battles making their way into court documents, and allegations of hundreds of thousands of dollars in lottery ticket earnings being siphoned to a “Real Housewives” s

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    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Professional Negligence, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
    Authors:
    Elizabeth Tuttle Newman
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
    Supreme Court says Trademark Licenses Survive Bankruptcy
    2019-05-24

    This week, in Mission Product Holdings Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, the Supreme Court settled a dispute between the Circuit Courts regarding how trademark licenses are treated when a licensor declares bankruptcy. Under the Bankruptcy Code, debtors may reject executory contracts—or contracts that have not been fully performed—upon declaring bankruptcy. Although the Bankruptcy Code explicitly dictates that when a licensor rejects a patent license, the licensee may continue to use the patent so long as it pays royalties, it contains no such provision for trademark licenses.

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    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Trademarks, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, Debtor
    Authors:
    Kimberly M. Maynard
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
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