Welcome back to this week's episode. Last week I mentioned we were going to be talking a little bit more about the latest

Gerardi updates. I attended via zoom the court hearing last week when you're listening to this on November 16th. It was very interesting.

So we're going to be talking about what's going on with regard to Erica Gerardi in the realm of the Gerardi lawsuits some stuff that popped off on Twitter that is related to what's going on with

Erica Gerardi and then there is another lawsuit in the rust set tragedy that includes a pretty powerful statement from the script supervisor and we will be going through that statement at the end of the show.

It does contain a lot of details. It is it is a lot of information. So we're going to go through that at the end because if you want to opt out of knowing all the things it's sad.

It's okay to opt out. We're going to get into the Gerardi stuff first just we're like we're in lawsuit season. I feel like everybody's getting their billables in before the end of the year and we are going to be jogging on the treadmill of lawsuits between now and Christmas. It's just busy.

So as we're getting into the beginning of the Thanksgiving season this week and into the beginning of the early this year, Hanukkah season happy holidays to you that celebrate in the US. I know Thanksgiving is celebrated in Canada on a different day.

I don't know when that is but I know it's coming. He thinks giving to you as well and we are just going to roll into today's show and just start talking about Erica Gerardi and this lawsuit and Twitter because that's what's happening right now.

Hey there. Welcome to the Emily show. I'm your host Emily DeBaker, badass lawyer and everyone's favorite legal commentator breaking down the legal shit in the news and pop culture stories you want to talk about.

I've been a licensed attorney for over 15 years. I'm a former prosecutor and I'm a big fan of the Chrissy words. So let's break it down.

Before we get too deep into it, I'm going to do just a quick recap of procedurally where we're at Tom Gerardi, former, you know, golden boy of the plaintiffs bar in the mass.

Tort Arena had a massive fall from grace around this time last year when Edelsen PC in December filed a lawsuit against him in Illinois in relation to the Lion Air plane crash disaster and their mutual clients Lion Air sued Tom Gerardi, Eric Gerardi, other members of the law from the law from itself for legal fees and for funds that did not go to the clients and has been seeking relief in that

court. Their lawsuit prompted and their notice to the court prompted the judge in the Lion Air case to be like hold up, wait a minute.

What is happening? Where did the $2 million that's left to go to these clients go and with these clients, there are many law firm representing the surviving families with the remaining families of those lost in the Lion Air disaster.

This is not $2 million for all of the families saying surviving sounds as if someone survived the crash and we know that that is not true. So I'm trying to.

What is the right word to use? I just don't know, but the surviving families, the clients, the widows and orphans of those lost in that air disaster.

So there are many different plaintiff's firms involved in this, but Gerardi Keith, an LA law firm, was working with Edelsen PC who has a base in Illinois, paired Illinois based firm words are going to be hard this whole show we can already tell they're an Illinois based firm.

So they are local counsel to Gerardi Keith, who was directly in communication with the clients and when that all started to go in South and it became obvious according to to Edelsen PCs lawsuit it became obvious to them that their clients hadn't been paid they brought it to the attention of the court they filed suit the court then did a bunch of order to show cause hearings with Tom Gerardi lawyers Tom Gerardi did not speak at any of those hearings other than to acknowledge his presence at those hearings.

So Edelsen brought this to the judges attention. Oh, Tom Gerardi didn't speak in court other than to say he was present. That's when his lawyers brought to the court the concern that the money might be gone. That's when the assets were frozen. We saw all of that go down on real Housewives of Beverly Hills when they were all in Palm Springs reading articles that were coming out from the LA times and trying to figure out what the assets being frozen meant before the bankruptcy started before the conservatorship of Tom Gerardi started before all of this really came out.

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