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Trial Results / Case Highlights

All of use have dedicated our careers to the pursuit of professional excellence. We absolutely appreciate the difference between a firm  like ours, that is structured on a “knights of the round table” theme and one that operates more as an assembly-line, pyramid scheme and we are sure that our clients understand and appreciate that difference.

• Najarro v. LACMTA Plaintiff and his witness were inebriated when Plaintiff walked in front of a bus, resulting in his injuries. Although our favorable independent witness ducked service and wouldn’t show up at trial, the jury only returned a verdict for $1700, assessing 60% comparative negligence against the Plaintiff. Our cost bill was larger and our offer under […]
  Thomas J. Griffin
• Brackeen v. Gould Summary Judgment was granted our general contractor client against a plaintiff who was injured while working for an electrical subcontractor on our client’s project. He tried to get around the ” Privette” line of cases by claiming that they didn’t apply because they required the Plaintiff to be covered by workers compensation for the exclusion […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• Brame v. Curtis In this construction defect matter, plaintiff homeowners had already settled with the developer for a large unknown amount before we were even retained to represent a subcontractor who had constructed v-ditches on the hillsides in back of plaintiffs’ homes. Developer would not release any details about the prior settlement until forced to do so by […]
  Larry R. Nelson & Frederic. T. Tanner
• Encino Biltmore v. Thomas In this matter at a former firm, I represented an apartment complex management company that was having troubles with a problem tenant who was harassing the tenants and making life so miserable for building managers that they kept quitting. The tenant had been verbally abusive and had a long history of harassment that caused tenants […]
  Frederic. T. Tanner
• MacDonald v. Woodward In this matter at a former firm, a tenant filed a civil harassment claim against the security guard at an apartment complex. We defended for the security guard, who had kept a log of all the strange activity of this tenant. The tenant had three different vehicles and a scooter that he would drive into […]
  Frederic. T. Tanner
• Commercial Underwriters v. Cavness The defendant got away with restoring motorcycles that were supposed to be salvaged for years, but then even failed to pay the salvage proceeds. We matched up the DMV records with the defendants’ bank records and showed that fraud was demonstrable. One of the defendants could have gotten a dismissal a month before trial, but […]
• Clark v. Fox et. al. After winning summary judgment in one of two companion cases, our tender of defense was finally accepted, after a year’s effort that resulted in the filing of a Declaratory Relief action. This resulted in our retaining carrier being completely reimbursed and our client’s are now protected by an insurance package that is 20 times bigger. […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• LEWIS v. 20th CENTURY FOX Entertainment/Employment case. The plaintiff claimed that his AIDS was caused or exacerbated by inhaling “Fuller’s Earth” while it was being blown around during the shooting of a battle scene in “Planet of the Apes”, a Tim Burton movie that plaintiff worked on as a hairdresser. Extremely competent counsel for one of our co-defendants took the […]
  Larry R. Nelson