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A. Barry Cappello & Leila Noël Selected to 2020 Super Lawyers List

Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, have been selected to the 2020 Southern California Super Lawyers list. No more than 5 percent of lawyers receive this honor. Cappello has been named a Super Lawyer every year since 2007. Cappello represents plaintiffs in lender liability matters, complex business litigation, class [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:16:32-07:00February 3rd, 2020|Firm News, News|
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Judge Certifies Property Owners’ Easement Class Action Against Plains

On January 28, 2020, United States District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez certified a class action lawsuit filed against Plains All American Pipeline by Santa Barbara County property owners who have easement contracts with Plains and whose properties were impacted during the 2015 Refugio oil spill. (Grey Fox, LLC et. al v. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., et. al, U.S. District [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:35-07:00January 31st, 2020|Firm News, News, Santa Barbara Oil Spill & Plains All American Pipeline Class Actions|
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Delay In Public’s Access to Hollister Ranch Beaches

A recent ruling by a Santa Barbara Superior Court judge will mean less public access to Hollister Ranch beaches for at least three to five years as litigation in the land use dispute continues, says A. Barry Cappello, lead counsel representing the Hollister Ranch Owners Association. "Judge Colleen Sterne’s decision to invalidate a 2017 settlement, which was tentatively approved at [ More... ]

By |2019-12-26T14:26:21-08:00December 26th, 2019|Firm News, News, Real Estate & Land Use Law|
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Claim For Damages Filed Against City of Santa Barbara

Owners of High Sierra Grill, a restaurant and bar at the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport from 2015 until 2019, filed a claim for damages against the City of Santa Barbara alleging the City constituted numerous contractual breaches resulting in substantial financial losses. High Sierra Grill had a 10-year lease with the City, with options to renew for three additional five-year [ More... ]

By |2020-09-02T13:41:07-07:00December 6th, 2019|Complex Business Litigation, Firm News, News|
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UCLA LAW | New Heights for Trial Advocacy Program

Scoring big in prestigious tournaments and earning a No. 3 national ranking, UCLA School of Law’s trial advocacy team enjoyed unprecedented success in 2018-19. Under the direction of veteran litigator and legal educator Justin Bernstein — who joined UCLA Law in 2018 to direct the trial advocacy program — the trial team won three tournaments in the academic year and [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:16:32-07:00November 26th, 2019|Firm News|
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Barry Cappello Featured In UCLA Law’s 70th Anniversary Magazine

Seventy UCLA Law alumni, including Barry Cappello, were featured in the school’s Fall 2019 magazine that celebrated UCLA Law’s 70th Anniversary. Cappello was singled out as one of the school’s five “Top Trial Lawyers” in its 70-year history.

By |2024-09-27T05:29:33-07:00November 22nd, 2019|Firm News, News|
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Boat owners seek to head off lawsuits after 34 die in fire

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owners of the dive boat where 34 people perished in a fire off Southern California filed a lawsuit Thursday to head off potentially costly litigation, a move condemned by some observers as disrespectful to the families of the dead. Truth Aquatics Inc., which owned the Conception, filed the action in U.S. District Court in Los [ More... ]

By |2020-09-02T10:09:07-07:00September 6th, 2019|Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death, Firm News, News, Personal Injury|
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Cappello Donates $500,000 to UCLA Law Advocacy Program

Supporting what is rapidly becoming one of the top law school trial programs in the country, UCLA Law alumnus A. Barry Cappello (class of 1965) has pledged to donate an additional $500,000 to UCLA School of Law’s Cappello Program in Trial Advocacy. The gift raises Cappello’s total donations to UCLA Law to $2.75 million. The new funds will support additional [ More... ]

By |2024-09-27T05:29:35-07:00August 26th, 2019|Firm News, News|
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Barry Cappello & Leila Noël Included in 2020 Best Lawyers

Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP, were recently selected for inclusion in 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Both attorneys were recognized for their legal skills in mass tort litigation and plaintiff class action representation. Since 1992, Cappello has been consecutively ranked as one of the “Best Lawyers [ More... ]

By |2019-11-13T16:16:38-08:00August 15th, 2019|Firm News, News|
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Attorney Kenneth J. Melrose Joins Cappello & Noël LLP

Attorney Kenneth J. Melrose has joined the Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël, LLP as an associate, according to A. Barry Cappello, managing partner. Melrose will focus his practice on litigation and trial work. While at law firms in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo, he represented property owners, oil and gas companies, real estate developers, [ More... ]

By |2020-08-18T12:59:58-07:00July 16th, 2019|Firm News, News|
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