$5,200,000.00+ Settlement Before Trial

Case Type: Personal Injury
Opposing Party: Driver & Employer

Summary:
Our client was lawfully stopped at a red light when he was rear-ended by another driver hired as an independent contractor. As a result, our client suffered multiple injuries and incurred medical costs of more than $150,000.00.

After successfully battling numerous law firms, we were able to secure a settlement of more than $5,200,000.00 right before trial.

$2,750,000.00 Recovered A Week Before Trial

Case Type: Personal Injury
Opposing Party: Driver

Summary:
Our client was riding his bicycle when a Range Rover suddenly swerved into the bicycle lane and collided with our client’s rear wheel, ejecting him from his bicycle. As a result of the violent impact with the ground, our client suffered multiple injuries and incurred medical costs of more than $140,000.00.

After aggressively battling the opposing law firm for over 4 years, we successfully resolved the case for $2,750,000.00 one week before the jury trial despite their initial offer of $200,000 only 7 months earlier.

$1,250,000.00 Recovered Without Filing A Lawsuit

Case Type: Personal Injury
Opposing Party: Liable Driver’s Insurance Company

Summary:
Our client was walking home through a crosswalk when a Dodge pick-up truck ran through a red-light at 30 miles per hour and collided with her. Our client was knocked unconscious and airlifted to the hospital. As a result, our client suffered a brain hemorrhage, fractured both of her legs and her wrist.

After we served the liable driver’s insurance company with our demand letter, they immediately responded by seeking to resolve the matter.

Soon afterwards, we recovered $1,250,000.00 for our client prior to filing a lawsuit.

$972,000.00 Jury Verdict After 9-Day Trial

Case Type: Insurance
Opposing Party: Insurance Agent

Summary:
Our non-English speaking client applied for an insurance policy that would provide benefit payments until the age of 65 in the event of an injury that impacted his income. However, 5 years after being injured, our client suddenly discovered that the insurance agent had failed to inform him that the insurance policy only provided benefit payments for 5 years rather than to age 65, which our client only discovered once the insurance company stopped making further payments after 5 years. As a result, our client was unable to receive approximately $240,000 of insurance benefits, which forced him to sell his business and incur various loans to pay for his family’s living expenses.

After a 9-day jury trial, 12 of the 12-jurors found that the insurance agent was liable for negligence and negligent misrepresentation, and awarded our client a total of $972,000.00 based upon $222,000 for the economic damages and $750,000 the mental and emotional distress our client suffered as a result of the insurance agent’s conduct.

Secured $1,100,00.00+ Debt & $7,500/Mo Payments

Case Type:  Real Estate
Opposing Party: Bankruptcy Debtor

Summary:
Our clients loaned over $900,000.00 to a property owner. When the property owner stopped making the required monthly payments, our clients were forced to begin foreclosure proceedings on the property that was securing the debt. In hopes of stopping the foreclosure, the property owner filed bankruptcy.

We were able to successfully secure the debt in the amount of $1,100,000.00, and obtained an order granting our clients monthly payments of $7,500.00. The bankruptcy Court also ordered that the property must be sold within 7 months to repay our clients or they would be allowed to proceed with foreclosure.

$430,000.00 Recovered Without Filing A Lawsuit

Case Type: Personal Injury
Opposing Party: Drunk Driver’s Insurance Company

Summary:
Our clients were driving home when a drunk driver suddenly swerved into their lane from oncoming traffic and collided directly with their car. Our clients were knocked unconscious and the drunk driver was fatally injured. As a result, our clients incurred approximately $50,000 of medical treatment for the various injuries they suffered to their heads, necks, and backs.

After significant back-and-forth with the drunk driver’s insurance company, they ultimately agreed to pay our clients a total of $430,000.00 prior to filing a lawsuit.

$295,000.00+ Settlement Prior to Trial

Case Type: Personal Injury
Opposing Party: Driver & Client’s Insurance

Summary:
Our client was a passenger in a car she ordered for a ride when the car was suddenly t-boned by another driver, causing our client to suffer multiple injuries.

After an aggressive lawsuit against the driver of the car in which our client was a passenger and the other driver, the other parties finally agreed to pay our client more than $295,000.00 to settle the lawsuit shortly before trial.

$260,000.00+ Recovered For Wrongful Termination

Case Type:  Employment
Opposing Party: Employer

Summary:
Our client was misclassified as an independent contractor despite being treated as an employee throughout the course of his employment. Once our client notified his employer that he was misclassified and requested to be properly classified as an employee, his employer immediately terminated him claiming that his termination was due to of loss of business income caused by COVID-19.

After nearly two years of aggressively litigating the case, the employer finally offered to settle the case for over $260,000.00.

$250,000.00 Recovered Prior To Filing A Lawsuit

Case Type: Personal Injury
Opposing Party: Driver & Client’s Insurance

Summary:
Our client suffered a fracture to her heel of her foot after being t-boned by another vehicle exiting a shopping center. While we were able to immediately settle the case with the other driver, his insurance policy limits were only $50,000.00. Thankfully, our client’s own insurance policy included Under Insured Motorist coverage.

As a result, we were able to recover the policy limits from the other driver’s insurance as well as the policy limits from our client’s own insurance, for a total of $250,000.00.

$200,000.00+ Judgment For Illegal Labor Practices

Case Type:  Employment
Opposing Party: Employer

Summary:
Our client worked in a “sweat shop” for over a year, where she was regularly required to work more than 70 hours per work; often working more than 24 straight hours, without any rest or meal breaks. The employers regularly inflicted psychological and verbal abuse on their employees, including our client.

We filed a lawsuit on behalf of our client alleging numerous employment violations, including failure to pay wages, withholding earnings, failure to provide meal and rest breaks, and other wage and hour violations. We secured a judgment in our client’s favor, against all defendants, for more than $200,000.00.

$145,000.00+ Lien Secured & Bankruptcy Dismissed

Case Type:  Real Estate
Opposing Party: Bankruptcy Debtor

Summary:
Our client was owed over $145,000.00 for money loaned to a property owner, secured by a lien on the property. In order to avoid repaying our client, the property owner filed a chapter 13 bankruptcy and refused to recognize the secured debt.

Then, in hopes of avoiding our client’s lien, the property owner filed an adversary proceeding in his bankruptcy. In response, we successfully argued that the debt is secured and must be included in the property owner’s chapter 13 plan. Because the property owner was unable to propose a chapter 13 plan that included our client’s secured claim, the court granted our motion to dismiss the bankruptcy, including his adversary proceeding.

$100,000.00 Settlement For Illegal Apartment Complex

Case Type: Real Estate
Opposing Party: Landlord

Summary:
Our clients were tenants in a single family home where the landlord was not responding to their requests to complete simple repairs. Instead, the landlord began harassing the tenants in hopes of convincing them to voluntarily vacate the home. After we were retained to help, we discovered that the landlord had illegally converted the single family home into a quasi-apartment complex without having obtained the necessary permits as the landlord had added a kitchen and shower to each room.

After extensive back and forth with the landlord’s attorney, we were ultimately able to settle the matter for $100,000.00 prior to starting a lawsuit.

$95,000.00 Recovered For Wrongful Eviction

Case Type: Real Estate
Opposing Party: Buyer Following Foreclosure Sale

Summary:
Our client was a tenant at a property with a lease agreement that allowed him to purchase the property after paying rent for several years. Despite our client paying rent each month, the original landlord stopped paying the mortgage and the property was foreclosed upon without our client’s knowledge. After the foreclosure, the new buyer entered the property during the night and moved all of our client’s personal property to the street and changed the locks, so to begin remodeling the property to sell.

We immediately filed a lawsuit against the buyer, alleging several causes of action related to wrongful eviction. After we prevailed on the preliminary injunction allowing our client to return to the property (delaying the buyer’s plan for remodeling), the buyer quickly agreed to settle for $95,000.00.

$75,300.00 Recovered Within 2 Weeks

Case Type: Business & Corporate Litigation
Opposing Party: Business

Summary:
Our client provides employment recruiting services to businesses, in exchange for 20% of the new employee’s annual salary. Our client located an employee, which the business hired for an annual salary of $280,000.00, which entitled our client to a $56,000.00 fee.

The business avoided paying our client its fee for nearly an entire year, before our client decided to file a complaint. Within 2 weeks of us filing the complaint, the business agreed to settle the matter for $75,300.00.

$60,000.00 Settlement Within 2 Months

Case Type: Business & Corporate Litigation
Opposing Party: Commercial Insurance Company

Summary:
Our client obtained insurance coverage for a recently purchased commercial building, which it was planning to remodel. While it was obtaining the permits for the remodel, it leased the entire building to a single tenant that was starting a new technology company that was creating mobile phone applications. Though the tenant rented the entire building, it was physically occupying only a fraction of it because it was relatively new company.

Several months later, a water supply line in the building burst, which caused significant flooding and damage costing our client approximately $43,000 to repair. Our client filed a claim with its insurance company for reimbursement of the repair costs, but its insurance company denied coverage by claiming that at least 31% of the building was not occupied as required by the insurance policy.

After our client retained us, we filed a lawsuit in California State Court against the insurance company, alleging three causes of action–including (1) Breach of Contractual Duty to Pay a Covered Claim; (2) Breach of the Implied Obligation of Good Faith and Fair Dealing; and (3) Violation of California Business & Professions Code sections 17200 et seq.

In response to the lawsuit, the insurance company filed a motion to remove the case from being heard in State Court to Federal Court instead. We aggressively opposed the motion and the court ruled in our favor by denying the motion.

Within a week after losing its motion, the insurance company settled the case for $60,000.00 (more than the original costs of repair).

$40,000.00 Settlement For Un-Permitted Apartment

Case Type: Landlord & Tenant
Opposing Party: Landlord

Summary:
For nearly 10 years, our client was living in an un-permitted apartment and paying approximately $1,100 of rent per month. After the landlord stopped responding to our client’s requests for repairs, she sought our assistance. We discovered her apartment was not permitted with the City of Los Angeles and was converted into an apartment by illegally dividing one apartment into two apartments.

We drafted a complaint against the landlord and, prior to filing the lawsuit, served a copy on the landlord and demanded our client be paid a relocation fee and return of previously paid rent.

Realizing the problems it would face if it resisted, the landlord settled the case for approximately $40,000.00 without us ever having to file the complaint.

Successfully Expunged Lis Pendens From Investment Property

Case Type: Real Estate
Opposing Party: Debtor/Previous Property Owner

Summary:
Our client foreclosed on an investment property, after it lent approximately $500,000 to the previous owner and he failed to make any payments. Once our client started foreclosure proceedings, the previous owner filed a petition for bankruptcy as a strategy to stop our client from obtaining possession to the investment property. After we continued to seek relief from the bankruptcy court, the previous owner realized he would be unable to stop the foreclosure and dismissed his bankruptcy petition.

After foreclosing on the investment property, the previous owner falsely claimed there were individuals living in the investment property as another strategy to stop our client from obtaining possession. We then evicted all individuals supposedly living in the investment property by filing an unlawful detainer action.

Once our client regained possession and started to remodel the investment property to sell, the previous owner filed a lawsuit against our client by alleging fraud as a strategy to record a Lis Pendens on the investment property so to stop any potential sale of the investment property. We then filed a motion requesting the previous owner post a bond with the court to allow the recording of the Lis Pendens during the lawsuit, which the court granted by ordering the previous owner to post a bond of $400,000.00 within 30 days.

Once the previous owner was unable to post the $400,000.00 bond, the Lis Pendens was expunged, which allowed our client to sell the investment property.