Client Victories

We are pleased to announce that Attorney Ben Cloward of Cloward Hicks & Brasier, our client, has been selected by the Nevada Justice Association to receive the 2016 Co-Trial Lawyer of the Year. Mr. Cloward will be presented with his well-deserved award at the upcoming Annual Summer Gala to be held at The Grove at SouthCreek in Reno on June 14th and th...

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Congratulations to Advocate Capital, Inc. friend and client Mike McLachlan of the Law Offices of Michael D. McLachlan on the recent victorious judgment providing his clients with permanent water rights valued at $58M, awarded to thousands of litigants in the Antelope Valley Groundwater Cases. This judgment has been 17 years in the making, originally filed...

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Congratulations to Attorneys Garrett and Preston Handy, of Handy & Handy, P.C., on recently being voted Legal Elite by Utah Business magazine in the personal injury practice area for the fourth consecutive year. According to the Utah Business magazine, Utah’s Legal Elite is “a listing of the top layers in Utah as voted by their peers.” How does this w...

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Advocate Capital would like to congratulate longtime colleagues George Choulos and Claude Wyle on a recent jury verdict in the San Francisco Superior Court. The Plaintiff is an Iraqi war veteran, who previously suffered serious back injuries in Iraq and who had come to the Bay Area to attend Hastings Law School.  Plaintiff’s attempt to put his life back t...

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Sean Claggett of Claggett & Sykes Law Firm successfully represented a Las Vegas woman seriously injured in a slip and fall in the garden center of a Las Vegas Lowe’s Store. The victim, a mother of three, fell after slipping on a “slimy, wet substance.” The fall caused the woman to suffer a fractured skull, resulting in brain damage and ultimately perm...

Read More About Sean Claggett Secures $13MM Verdict Against Lowe’s Home Centers

Congratulations to long-time friend, Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia who was recently honored by the Texas Urban County League members with the 2016 Leadership Award. The Texas Conference of Urban Counties facilitates communication and collaboration among the member counties, advocating and advancing the programs and issues of the State of Texas that im...

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I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the Rocky McElhaney Law Firm as they celebrate being named one the 2016 Best Places to Work by the Nashville Business Journal…for THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW! Rocky and his firm joined our family of clients late last year and we could not be happier or prouder to have them aboard. Not only is Rocky a Nashvi...

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Congratulations to Advocate Capital, Inc. friend and client Christopher Banys and his team at Banys, P.C. on this recent verdict. Please read the full press release below for details: A San Diego jury awarded Banys, P.C.’s trial team, led by Christopher Banys, $12.5 million in damages for a breach of contract case against Qualcomm, Inc. a world leader in...

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Recently I blogged about a true David vs. Goliath style employment law success story, the $37.25M settlement reached by J. Gary Gwilliam and his Oakland, CA based law firm Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli & Brewer in a case against Lawrence Livermore National Security Labs. After more than seven years of heavy litigation, Gwilliam and his firm were able...

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Attorney Pamela Y. Price of the Law Offices of Pamela Y. Price, a leader in the Oakland, CA legal community, will be honored as a Champion of Justice by the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. The event will take place on Saturday, April 9 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA. The progra...

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