Newsroom

Categories
Search

Is a cute Instagram of your cat an advertisement?

In the age of social media, which has transformed marketing and advertising practices in the legal world, it could be. Today’s attorneys find themselves in uncharted territory, trying to navigate Twitter, Facebook, even LinkedIn, without throwing established rules of ethics and professional responsibility overboard.  Attorney ethics in California are governed

Read More

Can you Kickstart justice?

Crowdfunding is the current go-to for anyone who needs to raise money.  From honeymoons to the world’s best potato salad, it seems like people will chip in toward anything that seems like a good idea. So it’s no surprise that crowdfunding has reached the legal market.  If you’re cash-strapped but

Read More

Confronting Your Client’s Expectations

It’s hour 4 in mediation. When your client is offered a mid-six figure offer, you quickly advise to accept.  Yet, your client looks disappointed and says he will not take anything below seven figures.  You now end up spending the rest of your day trying to convince your client that

Read More

The Three Essentials To a Traumatic Brain Injury

By Brian S. Kabateck & Benjamin Hakimfar 1.7 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury or “TBI” every year in the United States.  A TBI occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain, usually the result of when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, or when

Read More

Unfair Lending Practices – $40M

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Richard Kellner recovered more than $40 million on behalf of the NAACP, the nation’s largest civil rights organization, and helped reform unfair lending practices within the financial industry. The attorneys filed lawsuits against 15 lenders accused of coaxing African-American borrowers into high-cost loans, in the midst

Read More

StanPac – $15M

StanPac Kabateck LLP has brought an action against several excess insurance companies, which provide layers of insurance coverage totaling $95 million, on behalf of homebuilder who suffered a loss exceeding $100 million to three condominium projects it was developing.

Read More

Printer Ink Investigation – $300M

In March, 2005, Kabateck LLP filed a class action complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court (Epson Ink Cartridge Cases) against Epson America, Inc. The complaint alleged Epson installed a chip in its printers that prematurely blocked the printer from functioning while there was still a substantial amount of ink remaining

Read More

Earthquakes – $250M

Kabateck LLP attorneys were successful in recovering over $250 million in settlements associated with damage and insurance bad faith claims related to the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Kabateck LLP attorneys have been involved in numerous published appellate court opinions relating to the Northridge earthquake litigation, including Parkview Villas Ass’n, Inc. v.

Read More