Starting a small business is expensive enough without tacking attorneys’ fees onto the budget, but Santa Barbara lawyers say quality legal services are a critical investment for every startup. New businesses benefit from partnering with legal counsel for a few main reason: It’s more expensive to fix legal mistakes down the line than to ensure Read More →
Phil Steiner, a well-known intellectual property attorney in San Luis Obispo, died on Sept. 25. He was 55. A memorial is planned for Steiner at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo at 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 30. Steiner was instrumental in establishing the intellectual property section of the San Luis Obispo County Bar Read More →
Investors in now defunct Banco BuenaVentura are claiming the bank’s founder and his son defied orders from federal banking regulators and siphoned off investor money to pay for beachside condominiums and charted jet rides before regulators demanded that the bank liquidate in 2009. The allegations emerged in a lawsuit against the onetime Oxnard bank filed Read More →
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A Santa Barbara law firm is suing a deceased hedge fund manager’s estate for as much as $12 million in allegedly unpaid contingency fees. Cappello & Noël filed a lawsuit against the estate of Michael Klein, the fast-rising financial star who died in an airplane crash in Panama in 2007, along with Pacificor, the hedge Read More →
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, September 9th, 2011 / Columns, Law & Goverment / Comments Off on A roundup of hires, promotions and events at region’s law firms
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