The California Court of Appeal affirmed a $3.7 million trial court judgment that found a plastering company and a framing company had performed shoddy workmanship at the El Escorial Villas in Santa Barbara.
Parents file wrongful death suit - DA had declined to file charges after 4-year-old's drowning - Santa Barbara News-Press - PDF
A 74-year-old Lompoc widow is suing Orange County’s West Coast Realty & Mortgage and its subsidiary, Ultimaterate.com, as well as Orange County-based Fremont Investment & Loan for financial elder abuse.
A Santa Barbara jury awarded a nearly $42 million verdict to local businessman Michael Klein and his company, Core Wealth Management, in a Superior Court civil trial that lasted almost two months and concluded Thursday. The case revolved around allegations that five former employees of Mr. Klein had plotted to steal confidential information and clients from Core Wealth, of which Mr. Klein was chief executive officer and sole owner, and form their own competing company.
UCLA School of Law is the recipient of a $1.25 million gift from alumnus A. Barry Cappello (Class of 1965) and his wife Lori. The gift will create an endowment to support UCLA Law's teaching and research related to its trial practice and civil litigation programs.
The attorneys for the family of a 4-year-old boy who drowned last year at a Goleta athletic club are urging the state attorney general to launch a criminal investigation, saying earlier probes by the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department and District Attorney's Office, finding no criminal wrongdoing, were deeply flawed.
Investors soon may feel the effects of a cooling real estate market through subtle and not-so-subtle shifts in the way lenders view commercial real estate loans. The industry experienced strong surface growth last year: National overall vacancy rates fell to 14.7 percent at the end of the year and rents experienced the highest percentage increase in five years, according to Reis.com.
Loan negotiation is a critical component that, properly carried out, protects the borrower and the lender as well as helps ensure a good relationship. To give developers some tips on how to avoid construction loan legal problems and how to deal with them when they occur,
Barry Cappello, the father of lender liability, takes on the nation's banks and irritates Santa Barbara's legal community. Standing in the back of a Los Angeles courtroom during a recess in his most recent case against a big bank, A. Barry Cappello was sounding downright modest about what he had accomplished in his day-long summation.
On a boulevard lined with palm trees in Santa Barbara is a small firm that strikes fear in the boardrooms of large banks. A trailblazer in the field of lender liability, A. Barry Cappello and his firm represent small businesses that have been wronged by lenders.
