Avenatti’s Old Law Firm Hit With $10 Million Judgment

California bankruptcy judge grants motion to former partner
Stormy Daniels’s lawyer calls order ‘completely irrelevant’

Michael Avenatti exits from Federal Court in New York on April 16.Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

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By Edvard Pettersson and Erik Larson

May 22, 2018 at 7:29 PM UTC

Updated on

May 22, 2018 at 10:51 PM UTC

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The law firm founded over a decade ago by the attorney taking on Donald Trump and his longtime fixer Michael Cohen on behalf of an adult film star got socked with a $10 million judgment in an unrelated dispute with a former law colleague.

A federal bankruptcy judge in Santa Ana, California, granted a motion for judgment Tuesday against Michael Avenatti’s former law firm, Eagan Avenatti LLP. The California lawyer has been making headlines for the past two months representing Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, in a bid to void a $130,000 hush agreement with Trump.