The May 1, 2017 issue of the Daily Journal honored Jason H. Tokoro of Miller Barondess, LLP for joining the firm’s partnership. Jason joined Miller Barondess in 2014 and has been an integral part of the firm’s success. In December 2016, Jason won a $3.4 million jury verdict on behalf of his client, California Bank...Read More
By Greg Moran, Contact Reporter (April 18, 2017, 7:10 PM | SAN DIEGO) — A police practices expert hired by the family of a man fatally shot by San Diego police in 2015 concluded 75 percent of officer shootings over a three-year period were avoidable and unnecessary uses of force. Roger Clark, a nationally recognized authority on...Read More
We are proud to announce that Miller Barondess partner Mira Hashmall has been honored by the Daily Journal on its 2017 List, “Top 40 Under 40.” This exclusive list includes lawyers under the age of 40 who have achieved the highest level of legal success among their peers. Mira Hashmall joined Miller Barondess in 2007...Read More
Law360, New York (March 9, 2017, 2:37 PM EST) — Los Angeles County sued state regulators in a California court on Wednesday demanding SoCalGas undertake further safety and environmental reviews before reopening a facility that was the site of the largest gas leak in U.S. history. In a complaint filed in California Superior Court, the...Read More
Ex-Production Co. Execs Say Insurer Abandoned Them In Suit By Kat Sieniuc Law360, New York (August 31, 2016, 8:49 PM ET) — Former executives of now defunct post-production studio Modern VideoFilm Inc. are suing its insurer, Argonaut Insurance Company, for abandoning them in a more than $77 million counter-fight against a hedge fund that ran the...Read More
Photo by Dakota Smith: Attorney Skip Miller announces a lawsuit on behalf of Los Angeles County against SoCalGas at a news conference on Monday, July 25, 2016. By Dakota Smith/Los Angeles Daily News July 25, 2016 Los Angeles County filed a lawsuit Monday against Southern California Gas Company to try and force the utility to install...Read More
By Emily Alpert Reyes, LA Times – April 21, 2016 – The city of Los Angeles will pay $750,000 to settle a civil lawsuit brought by a woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by a Los Angeles police officer in the back of his car while his partner acted as a lookout. The City...Read More
P-Wave Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of The Gores Group (a Los Angeles–based global private equity firm) sued for breach of a reseller agreement in international arbitration proceedings against two large telecommunication infrastructure companies and their parent company based in Lebanon. The Arbitrator issued a final award on March 22, 2016 awarding our client (P-Wave) over...Read More
By Yvonne Villarreal March 11, 2016 Small TV programmer Herring Networks is suing AT&T, alleging the telecommunications company broke its agreement to carry two of Herring’s channels on DirecTV in return for the broadcaster’s support of the AT&T-DirectTV merger. Herring’s lawsuit, which seeks at least $100 million, was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in...Read More
January 31, 2016 While Santa Monica’s Surf Air is flying high with customers and investors, the airline’s success has left David Eyerly, the company’s co-founder and former chief operating officer, out in the cold. The 31-year-old Eyerly is fighting Surf Air and several of its investors in court, claiming he was the victim of a...Read More
