A. Barry Cappello managing partner in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, has been named as a top attorney in Southern California for 2014 by Super Lawyers Southern California magazine. No more than 5 percent of lawyers in California receive this honor. Cappello has been named a Super Lawyer since 2007. He re presents plaintiffs [ More... ]
A driver who killed a high school baseball coach in a Highway 101 hit-and-run has agreed to pay the victim's mother $30,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit settlement finalized Monday. Convicted hit-and-run driver Lau Van Huynh and two family members who owned the car he was driving agreed to pay Ana Quintanar, mother of the late Simon Chavez, the $30,000 [ More... ]
By Lara Cooper Santa Barbara Noozhawk January 7, 2014 A Murrietta man who pleaded guilty to hit-and-run charges after striking and killing a young Santa Barbara man on Highway 101 last year has settled a civil lawsuit with his family. Simon Chavez However, the case against the cab company who let the young man out of its vehicle before he [ More... ]
Santa Barbara, Calif.--After an eight-week trial and less than four hours of deliberation, a Santa Barbara Superior Court jury on August 30 rejected a $27 million lawsuit filed by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) against Santa Barbara-based Sientra, Inc.
Santa Barbara, Calif.--The Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël, LLP has added an associate, Jasper L. Ozbirn, according to A. Barry Cappello, managing partner. Jasper Ozbirn Ozbirn focuses his practice on complex business litigation. He joins the firm after working as an associate litigator at Citron & Citron in Santa Monica. While there, he was [ More... ]
May 8, 2013 SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.-- Leila J. Noël, partner with the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, was named one of the "Top 100 Women Lawyers" in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals. Noël was the only attorney selected for the list between the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. The [ More... ]
A. Barry Cappello and Leila J. Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, have been named as two of the top attorneys in Southern California for 2013 by Super Lawyers Southern California magazine.
Santa Barbara County and Santa Barbara County Sherriff's Department have agreed to pay a $4.8 million settlement to the survivors and their parents of a 2009 wrong way driver accident that took two lives and seriously injured two others.
The law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP recently was honored by the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County for the firm's longtime support.
After a four-week trial, an Orange County Superior Court jury returned a $7.7 million verdict in favor of United Studios of Self Defense (USSD) in a case against Z-Ultimate Self Defense Studios, LLC, Z-Ultimate Martial Arts Supplies, LLC and their individual owners.
