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Attorneys Philip Kaufler and Arash Homampour secured a reported $12 million jury verdict for Ramone Melendez after a speeding Los Angeles County bus struck his pickup truck. The jury found Melendez 50% at fault, resulting in a reported $6 million net award.

Attorney Philip Kaufler represented the granddaughter/respondent in an elder-abuse matter in which the Court of Appeal affirmed an approximately $1 million judgment and held that she had standing to sue.

Los Angeles Daily Journal coverage reports that Philip Kaufler represented television producer Deborah Pratt in an accounting-malpractice matter and obtained a $2,474,752 arbitration award.

Los Angeles Times coverage reports that an appellate panel reversed former Beverly Hills schools superintendent Jeffrey Hubbard’s felony convictions for misappropriating public funds.

A Los Angeles judge ruled that a California law broadly requiring divorce records containing financial information to be sealed violated the First Amendment. Philip Kaufler, representing Janet Burkle, was quoted supporting public access to the proceedings.

Dispute over a jointly owned horse-boarding ranch in which the defense prevailed on Flannery’s claims and Andrea Murray obtained $163,479 on an accounting cross-claim.

A May 19, 2000 Daily Journal profile of Philip Kaufler and a reported $2.5 million arbitration award in an accounting-malpractice dispute.

The California Supreme Court addressed whether Penal Code § 424 applies to every public officer or only officers with actual authority over the receipt, safekeeping, transfer or disbursement of public money.

The Court of Appeal reversed a $7.8 million attorney-fee award after concluding that a five-times multiplier was improper in the quantum meruit dispute. Philip Kaufler represented Hillel Chodos on appeal.