A. Barry Cappello, managing partner in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, have been selected to the 2017 Southern California Super Lawyers list. No more than 5 percent of lawyers receive this honor. Cappello has been named a Super Lawyer since 2007. Cappello represents plaintiffs in lender liability matters, complex business litigation, class actions and catastrophic [ More... ]
Santa Barbara law firm Cappello & Noël LLP is listed in the 2017 edition of “Best Law Firms,” published by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers. The firm received a “Tier 1” ranking in commercial litigation meaning the firm was in the highest percentile of recognized firms. The “Best Law Firms” rankings are based on an evaluation process [ More... ]
The Cappello Courtroom Series: The Art of the Trial continued into its fifth year with two lectures led by alumnus and veteran trial attorney A. Barry Cappello ’65. In March 2016, the topic was “When Is a Multi-million Dollar Trial Verdict Worthless?” Cappello, who has tried hundreds of cases with cumulative verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 billion, was [ More... ]
By SCOTT STEEPLETON, NEWS-PRESS CITY EDITOR August 25, 2016 Attorneys representing property owners, oil rig workers, commercial fishing-boat operators and others who say they were harmed by the Plains All American Pipeline oil spill at Refugio State Beach will appear before a federal judge in November for a hearing on whether the consolidated cases will proceed as a class-action matter. [ More... ]
A class of plaintiffs injured by the May 19, 2015 Plains oil pipeline rupture and oil spill near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County have filed a motion for class certification. (Keith Andrews, et. al. vs. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., Case No. 2:15-CV-04113-PSG-JEM, U.S. District Court, Central District of Calif., August 22, 2016) Plains owns and controls the [ More... ]
Firm partners A. Barry Cappello and Leila Noël will be speaking at the 2016 Special Assets Management Association (SAMA) Conference, Thursday, June 2 in La Jolla. Their topic is “The Latest in Lender Liability.” Joining them will be Joel Berman, partner with Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP.SAMA is a professional trade association serving loan workout professionals.Their talk will be [ More... ]
Santa Barbara, Calif. (May 9, 2016)—Property owners that have easement agreements allowing Plains All American to run its oil pipelines on their property have filed a class action lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit is seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction ordering Plains to repair and improve its corroded pipelines in Santa Barbara County so they operate within the parameters [ More... ]
Cappello & Noël participated in the April 21, 2016 federal court hearing regarding the Volkswagen emission scandal. The hearing lasted just 15 minutes. Clearly, most of the details still are missing from the proposed settlement, and the Court made it clear that these details still needed fleshing out. We are monitoring the matter closely. Once we have all the necessary [ More... ]
Firm partner Leila Noël was named one of 2016’s “Top 50 Women in Business” by the Pacific Coast Business Times. The honor recognizes the outstanding female business leaders in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Previously, she was named one of 2011’s “Top 75 Women Litigators” in California and one of the “Top 100 Women Lawyers” in California [ More... ]
Firm at center of Refugio spill must change its message to victims By SCOTT STEEPLETON, NEWS-PRESS CITY EDITOR March 8, 2016 Roughnecks, property owners, commercial fishermen and others who claim damages stemming from the Refugio oil spill made some headway in their federal class-action suit, convincing a judge in Los Angeles that portions of their case should move forward. At [ More... ]
