Legal Blogs

The process of claiming compensation along with the success rate of the personal injury claims has undergone a significant change in the past few years. While earlier, people stayed back from claiming compensation in fear of getting entangled into an elaborate, legal process, today, they are inclined on securing their due justice. Much of this change or rather transformation owes to the emergence of the authorized legal service providers and the equally expert personal injury solicitors...Read Full Story

Is your life affected due to work accident? Are you struggling hard to receive your deserved work accident compensation? If “yes”, you can seek assistance from a professional personal injury solicitor to file your work accident compensation claim. You can consider the following steps to ensure the receipt of your injury compensation : Documentation of Accident Details: Ensure that the accident you have undergone is well documented. You need to have written copies documenting the...Read Full Story

Have you been victimised by an accident that has taken a heavy toll on your life? If this accident happens to be the consequence of somebody else’s mistakes or negligence, you must claim compensation. Injury compensation claims are designed in ways that help you to cover up the huge financial losses that are usually brought forth by an accident. Most importantly, it acts as an instrument of justice and ensures that the victim gets his much-deserved rights. If all this makes you apprehensive...Read Full Story

Amid allegations of breached ethics rules and conflicts of interest, Los Angeles Superior Court Hon. William F. Highberger was recently asked to consider additional matters relating to the approval of the settlement in the case of Benjamin Fogel v Farmers Group . As a service to the community, we shall publish* the communication, below: Hon. William F. Highberger, who presides over the case of Benjamin Fogel v Farmers Group .  Judge Highberger is part of the Los Angeles Superior Court Complex...Read Full Story

  Contending that Howard Rice's Jerome Falk, acting as Special Prosecutor on behalf of the State Bar of California, repeatedly sought to subvert justice by failing to disclose that those he was suppose to prosecute (Thomas Girardi of Girardi & Keese and Walter Lack of Engstrom Lipscomb & Lack) were actually his and his firm's clients, sources familiar with the situation claim plans are underway to seek the disbarment of Girardi, Lack and Falk.   In a letter to Jerome Falk and the Board of...Read Full Story

As a result of a story we published on April 4, 2011 (See Here ), Zurich Financial Services and Farmers Group Inc. (represented by Dewey & Leboeuf and Skadden Arps, respectively), filed an Ex Parte motion with the Los Angeles Superior Court (Judge William Highberger Presiding) seeking to amend the settlement agreement. From Declaration of Girardi & Keese's Thomas Girardi Dated September 30, 2011 From Declaration of Girardi & Keese's Thomas Girardi Dated September 30, 2011 Below, parts of...Read Full Story

A long-standing involvement with an entity which cater exclusively to Asian-American has led to a complaint being filed against California Supreme Court Associate Justice Ming W. Chin. The ethics complaint -- filed with the California Commission on Judicial Performance --  alleges that Chin's involvement with the Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE) is prohibitive due to CAUSE's invidious discrimination against those who are non Asian-American. As such, the complaint...Read Full Story

  Lending significant support to calls for an examination of corruption in the California Supreme Court, a sharply-worded brief was filed with the United States Supreme Court, urging it to grant review. In that brief, Marina Del Ray-based legal scholar Dan Dydzak minced no words in accusing former Chief Justice Ronald George and attorneys from the San Francisco-based law firm of Howard Rice of egregious misconduct. Specifically, it is alleged that Howard Rice was instrumental in using the...Read Full Story

  Representatives of the Muslim community of Orange County, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and the Christian right, along with various civil rights activists, are in discussions to establish a plan of action to aid Orange County resident Ronald Norton Gottschalk, The Leslie Brodie Report has learned. During a meeting held in Arcadia yesterday, luminaries set the stage for the creation of a platform that will be used in aiding Gottschalk's whistleblowing activities and his quest for justice...Read Full Story

A long-standing involvement with an entity which cater exclusively to Asian-American has led to a complaint being filed against California Supreme Court Associate Justice Ming W. Chin. The ethics complaint, filed with the California Commission on Judicial Performance, alleges that Chin's involvement with the Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE) is prohibitive due to CAUSE's invidious discrimination against those who are non Asian-American. As such, the complaint...Read Full Story