A former Buchalter APC shareholder at the center of a $200 million fraud and negligent hiring lawsuit said he believes he did nothing wrong and the plaintiff family owes him an apology, according to video depositions played for jurors on Wednesday.
Read MoreAn heiress to a dairy fortune at the center of a $200 million fraud and negligent hiring case against Buchalter APC told jurors Tuesday she was “very impressed” by the attorney handling their estate, including during a 2009 meeting at the firm’s Orange County office in which he assured her the family fortune was well-managed.
Read MoreA former Buchalter APC shareholder at the center of a fraud and negligent hiring trial was so close to a key attorney in the firm’s Orange County office that its top executive disregarded concerns about suspicious billing practices, a firm executive testified Monday.
Read MoreTwo attorneys who worked on a multimillion estate plan for a dairy fortune engaged in obvious "self-dealing" they tried to conceal through repeated misrepresentations that could constitute fraud, a plaintiff's expert testified Wednesday.
Read MoreA plaintiff’s lawyer seeking millions in damages from Buchalter LLP told jurors on Monday that the firm didn’t just hire the lawyer that helped dismantle a dairy family’s wealth, but said it also promoted him, protected him, profited from him and dismantled the firm “alarm systems” that could have stopped him.
Read MoreA longtime family friend, with the help of an attorney, raided about $50 million from the founders of the Alta-Dena milk empire, while the law firm they worked for did nothing to stop it...
Read MoreAn Irvine-based law firm and a Long Beach attorney Monday settled their legal disputes with the Stueve family, which started the Alta-Dena Dairy, on the eve of a trial alleging the lawyers were involved in a scheme to drain the family of the milk company’s fortune.
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