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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.

• ORTIZ V. LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY Personal Injury/Insurance Fraud – Bus v. Pedestrian. Liability should have been clearly adverse because the bus operator did indeed shut the door on the plaintiff’s foot as she was trying to get on. The plaintiff was dragged for several feet before the bus operator realized her mistake. Most of the matters we handle for the […]
  Thomas J. Griffin
• NORRIS v. LACMTA Insurance fraud case. Plaintiff claimed that her broken leg had resulted from falling on a bus and that she thought the driver intended to exit the bus to take down her claims information. He drove off instead and was unidentified. It resulted in a 10-2 verdict for the defense. It is worth noting because the […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• Rothschild v. Schwartz In this matter at a former firm, I represented plaintiff in a landslide case in Malibu. He was the owner of a gorgeous, ocean view piece of property that was featured in the TV show, “The Bachelor,” as the bachelor pad for the first three seasons. Plaintiff brought suit alleging that his neighbor caused a […]
  Frederic. T. Tanner
• Soledad Housing Investors v. Crist In this matter at a former firm, I represented Plaintiff, the owners of an apartment complex where the neighboring business had caused severe damage to their fence. Defendant, a storage facility, had paved a new asphalt road that abutted plaintiff’s fence. Rather than putting in a curb or some support, the asphalt was paved right […]
  Frederic. T. Tanner
• Urich-Sass v. Bank of America In this matter at a former firm, I represented plaintiff, an elderly woman from Beverly Hills who had been the victim of an international scam. Plaintiff had received a letter in the mail with a check stating that she had won a sweepstakes worth millions. She followed the instructions in the letter that advised her […]
  Frederic. T. Tanner
• HANLON v. YUST Premises Liability/Medical Malpractice. We defended homeowners whose dog escaped and was approached by the plaintiff, who tried to grab its collar and was bitten on the wrist. When she was taken to a local emergency room, plaintiff suffered increased injury because the emergency room doctor failed to guard against infection when sewing shut the modest […]
• ABC v. MUZIKA Premises Liability; Entertainment Industry risk. We defended a music production company from allegations by Disney that our clients were responsible for their worker’s compensation loss, incurred when an off-duty ABC reporter claimed to have fallen on the sidewalk in front of the client’s property because she stepped in a hole that was his responsibility. The […]
• CARRANZA v. LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY Insurance Fraud. The plaintiff claimed that the bus operator intentionally accelerated and decelerated, causing him to be slammed onto the floor of the bus, striking his head, rendering him unconscious and severely exacerbating a pre-existing back injury. The plaintiff contended that the bus operator was acting in retaliation for a prior verbal confrontation, after which […]
  Thomas J. Griffin