General Motors Co. customers, who filed about 50 lawsuits demanding compensation for ignition-switch problems, picked three lawyers to speak for them in bankruptcy court when a judge considers the automaker’s request to pare their claims, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. At a meeting in New York yesterday convened by Edward Weisfelner of Brown Rudnick LLP, about a hundred law firms for GM car owners delegated their host and two others to put their views to Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber at a May 2 conference. Sander Esserman of Stutzman, Bromberg, Esserman & Plifka in Dallas and Elihu Inselbuch of Caplin & Drysdale in New York were the other two lawyers selected, Weisfelner said. GM wants Gerber to reaffirm rulings made during its 2009 bankruptcy, saying that customer demands for money aren’t allowed by those orders. The customers say that the Detroit-based carmaker didn’t tell the judge about its ignition-switch problems, so he needn’t renew his rulings.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-04-29/gm-customers-pick-lawyer…
Edward Weisfelner is the author of ABI’s latest book, Advanced Fraudulent Transfers: A Litigation Guide, available for purchase in the ABI Bookstore. http://bookstore.abi.org/advanced-fraudulent-transfers-litigation-guide