David Lira pleaded guilty to defying a Chicago judge’s order to distribute settlement funds to widows and orphans of an Indonesian plane crash.

Lira, whose trial was scheduled for next month, ... Ex-Girardi Keese Partner David Lira Pleads Guilty 5 minute read June 05, 2025. By. Amanda Bronstad. What You Need to Know.

State Bar prosecutors moved Friday to disbar David Lira, Girardi's son-in-law, and another former employee, Keith Griffin, for alleged misappropriation of client funds.

David Lira, 62, who is Tom Girardi’s son-in-law, appeared virtually at a hearing in Chicago, where federal prosecutors indicted him Feb. 1 on charges of stealing $3 million from the families of ...

David Lira, the son-in-law of convicted California attorney Tom Girardi and a former member of Girardi's now-defunct law firm, pleaded guilty on Thursday to criminal contempt in connection with ...

U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin said he would not hold David Lira and Keith Griffin in contempt after an insurer for Girardi co-counsel Edelson law firm agreed to pay at least $2 million that ...

In addition, Mr. Girardi and David Lira, a lawyer in Mr. Girardi’s Los Angeles law firm, Girardi Keese, face eight counts of wire fraud and four counts of criminal contempt of court in Chicago ...

David Lira admitted Thursday to one count of contempt of court for defying a Chicago judge's order concerning the distribution of settlement funds to clients whose relatives had perished in a 2018 ...