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This year marks the 30th anniversary of Leila Noël as an attorney with the firm. She started as a 2-year associate and quickly advanced in her career by successfully helping countless individuals and small businesses with their litigation matters. Eventually, she became a name partner. In addition, the Daily Journal selected her as one of the Top 75 Women Litigation [ More... ]
By Gina Potthoff, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @ginapotthoff | Published on 02.16.2016 6:46 p.m. Santa Barbara County’s legal counsel doesn’t have a response for a local attorney’s implied intent to file a lawsuit if officials allow the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians to annex land without going through certain planning channels. Well-known Santa Barbara attorney Barry Cappello promised county [ More... ]
For the 10th consecutive year, Barry Cappello, managing partner of Cappello & Noël, has been selected to the Southern California Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in southern California are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more [ More... ]
Barry Cappello and Leila Noël, partners at Cappello & Noël LLP, were selected to the “Who’s Who in Professional Services” 2015 edition of the Pacific Coast Business Times. The annual honor spotlights outstanding attorneys and accountants in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Cappello and Noël were two of only 79 lawyers selected to be in the Who’s [ More... ]
Gretchen Wenner Sep 30, 2015 OXNARD, Calif. - A Volkswagen emissions compliance laboratory in Oxnard is a focus of at least one class-action lawsuit filed in the wake of the carmaker’s emissions cheating scandal. “Our view is that the Oxnard test center is at the heart of this,” said Leila Noël of Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP. [ More... ]
A class action lawsuit was filed against Volkswagen Group of America by six California Volkswagen diesel owners who say they now face loss of vehicle value, decreased resale opportunities and degradation of vehicle performance after Volkswagen recently admitted that since 2009 it circumvented emission test procedures to produce misleading pollution test results. (Peter Park, et al vs. Volkswagen Group of [ More... ]
Five law firms representing the six class action cases currently filed against Plains All American Pipeline stemming from the May 19, 2015 oil pipeline rupture near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County have agreed to consolidate their efforts in a September 15, 2015 motion made to the United States District Court in Los Angeles. The five firms, acting as [ More... ]
A class action lawsuit against Plains All American Pipeline was filed September 4 on behalf of oil industry workers who were laid off as a result of the company’s May 19, 2015 oil pipeline rupture near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County. (Richard Lilygren v. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, [ More... ]
A class action lawsuit was filed yesterday against Houston, Texas-based Plains All American Pipeline arising out of the May 19, 2015 oil pipeline spill that discharged over 100,000 gallons of toxic crude oil onto beaches and into the ocean along the Santa Barbara County coastline. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of over 3,000 beachfront property owners from Point Conception [ More... ]
A. Barry Cappello, a 1965 graduate of UCLA School of Law, was the chair for the school’s National Reunion Challenge that helped raise more than $550,000 to support scholarships for incoming students. The yearlong effort culminated in a weekend of events on the UCLA campus attended by alumni from the class of 1965 and every class year going forward ending [ More... ]
