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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, May 3rd, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Law & Goverment, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Nipomo man must return $47M to fraud victims, banks
John Mark Moore, 51, of Nipomo has pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding his in-laws, a former business partner and five banks out of as much as $47 million. Before his sentencing in July, Moore is likely to try to return as much of that as he can as restitution, according to prosecutors. But Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, April 12th, 2013 / Columns, Law & Goverment / Comments Off on SF Giants pitcher Barry Zito sues Ventura fitness firm
San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito is suing a Ventura-based firm over a $3 million investment allegedly gone bad.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, March 29th, 2013 / Law & Goverment, Real Estate, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Deadline looms for nonprofit seeking Lompoc land
Environmental Education Group, a Santa Barbara-based nonprofit that has been granted exclusive rights to negotiate a deal that could result in its control of 114 acres of city-owned land in Lompoc, has negative net worth and no history of successful commercial real estate development. Its leader, Alan Tratner, faces a $21,000 default judgment in federal Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, March 8th, 2013 / Columns, Law & Goverment, Real Estate / Comments Off on Caruso, county hit sticking point in Miramar rebate talks
Talks over the Miramar Hotel project in Montecito are stalled for not fiscal but legal reasons, and it doesn’t look like either side is ready to budge.
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By Stephen Nellis / Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 / Latest news, Law & Goverment / Comments Off on Amgen loses case before U.S. Supreme Court
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has lost a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that would have made it much more difficult for shareholders of public companies to band together and sue firms when their leaders make false or misleading statements. In Amgen v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, the biotech giant sought to tighten the Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 / Latest news, Law & Goverment, Technology / Comments Off on Hopkins, Smith leave Sheppard Mullin for Cooley
Thomas Hopkins and Ian Smith, two of the top deal-making attorneys in the Tri-Counties, have left Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton for technology powerhouse Cooley. Hopkins and Smith both joined Sheppard Mullin in 2001 when it acquired Santa Barbara firm Nida & Maloney. They accumulated a roster of billions of dollars of deals with local Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, February 8th, 2013 / Columns, Law & Goverment / Comments Off on LightGabler takes a team approach to employee law practice
LAW-NEWIt’s been less than three years since three partners, Jon Light, Karen Gabler and Glenn Dickinson, left Oxnard’s Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton form a new firm, LightGabler.
