Client Victories

Congratulations to Advocate Capital clients and friends Ron Netemeyer and Jill Harper of Harper, Evans, Wade & Netemeyer on obtaining a $2.45M settlement for their client. The Plaintiff is a 64-year old Purchasing Agent for a pipeline construction project who was living on the job-site in his motorhome. When the Plaintiff was setting up his motorhome,...

Congratulations to The Law Offices of Booth|Koskoff on securing a $2.5 million settlement from a California county social services agency that failed to remove the toddler from the aunt’s home. The child suffered right frontal lobe damage affecting her judgment, safety awareness, impulsivity, and executive functioning. The child was removed from the custo...

Congratulations to the employees of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) on a recent victory in the way employees are paid. Employment Law attorneys, Ross Law Group, under the direction of founder Daniel B. Ross, a long-time champion for the rights of employees, represented sixty employees of HISD in an action brought against the district regard...

Imagine for a moment sitting in your vehicle at a red light on an ordinary day thinking about your to-do list or maybe about plans you have with family for the weekend. Next, imagine suddenly, without warning, being struck from behind by a 17,000 pound vehicle. That is what happened to The Carlson Law Firm’s client, Glen, who suffered mild traumatic brain...

The important work of trial lawyers too often goes unnoticed. Insurance companies and big corporations, driven solely by profit incentives, rarely step up to the plate to do the right thing, taking responsibility for their actions or the actions of those they insure. Rather than accepting responsibility, they will fight to the bitter end to avoid accounta...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...