Todd Angstadt and Jessica Pliner substituted into this landlord-tenant case venued in Alameda Superior Court shortly before trial after the close of discovery. While the case initially appeared beyond settlement, we aggressively handled the case, filed a number of motions and convinced plaintiffs in September 2009 to settle the case for several hundred thousand dollars…
Bradley Jameson and William Carlson recently exonerated a commercial landlord from the building owner’s attempts to allocate fault to our client. The court agreed that our client was faultless and dismissed the case with prejudice at our request.
San Francisco attorney Maija O. Villegas recently exonerated a landlord before San Francisco’s Rent Board. A tenant petioned the Rent Board claiming the landlord and its agents allowed a nuisance to exist, did not enforce house rules and interrupted the tenant’s utilities in retaliation for the tenant’s complaints. After receiving evidence and hearing argument, the Rent Board agreed…
Plaintiff brought her professional liability case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against her lender and real estate appraisers in the U.S. District Court for alleged property value losses suffered. San Francisco attorneys Robert Phillips andJessica Pliner filed motions to have plaintiff’s complaint dismissed against our clients lack of…
In June 2009, San Francisco attorney Anna Gehriger became a LEED Accredited Professional (“LEED AP”). LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The LEED rating system which is administered by the Green Building Certification Institute was developed to encourage green building practices. To become a LEED AP, one must demonstrate a thorough understanding…
After partner Greg Spallas and associate Jessica Pliner filed a motion for summary judgment in March 2009 in this asbestos personal injury case pending in San Francisco Superior Court, plaintiff agreed to dismiss their dry cleaning equipment manufacturing client. A jury later awarded the plaintiff approximately $8,000,000 against the remaining defendants.
Todd Angstadt and Elisa Marcaletti successfully represented a property owner in a case involving a plaintiff who was severely injured in a motorcycle accident when the client and others allegedly strung a rope across the road, “clothes lining” plaintiff. The plaintiff’s physical injuries necessitated a medically-induced coma, multiple plastic surgeries, and future plastic and oral…
Todd Angstadt and Elisa Marcaletti recently successfully settled two related lawsuits filed by 46 plaintiffs in Alameda Superior Court. The plaintiffs were tenants of an apartment complex located in Oakland, California. The firm represented the apartment complex owners against claims of retaliatory eviction, wrongful endeavors to evict, negligence, breach of contract, breach of the warranty…
Robert K. Phillips and Jessica Stuart Pliner moved for attorneys fees and costs after prevailing in an action brought against our landlord clients for the breach of warranty of habitability in Sonoma Superior Court. The Court granted motions declaring plaintiff a vexatious litigant and dismissing her cross-complaint. The Court also granted our motion for fees…
Robert Phillips and Candice Mullings Williams prevailed by demurrer and secured a dismissal of wrongful death claims filed against a foster home which housed and provided psychological services to an adolescent who committed suicide.
Robert K. Phillips, Katherine Munter and Jessica Pliner brought an intellectual property case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of their biopharmaceutical client against a Japanese manufacturer. The defendant had misappropriated confidential information related to our client’s technology which is used in a number of medical, therapeutic…
