Super Lawyers Magazine announced today that Daniel J. Callahan, complex business litigation and catastrophic personal injury attorney and founder of Santa Ana, CA-based Callahan & Blaine, has been named to its “Top 10 Lawyers in Southern California” list for 2013. The list is produced annually by Super Lawyers Magazine, which bases its selections on a…
Today, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA”) finalized a $3.5 Million settlement with a 28-year old Los Angeles woman for personal injuries arising from a bus accident. The Request for Dismissal was filed today in the case, Lopez v Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, (LASC Case No. BC 460008), and the $3.5…
Callahan & Blaine founder Daniel Callahan is featured on the cover of this month’s OC Metro, which features an interview with this legal innovator in the magazine’s Guide to the OC’s Most Notable Lawyers. Callahan has spent more than 30 years practicing law in the OC and has won some of the biggest cases in…
Callahan & Blaine announced today that a final settlement in the Orange County Register class action case (Gonzalez, et al. v. Freedom Communications, Inc., et al., Orange County Superior Court, Case No. 03CC08756) has been reached. In the settlement, the directors and officers of Freedom Communications, the parent of the OC Register, agreed to pay…
A 29-year-old Huntington Beach man on a bicycle was seriously injured when he was struck by an SUV while waiting for a traffic light to change at the intersection of Bushard Street and Talbert Avenue in Fountain Valley, according to a news report. Fountain Valley police said that apparently two SUVs collided in the intersection…
A 35-year-old Laguna Hills man riding his bicycle in a crosswalk on Alicia Parkway in Laguna Hills was struck and killed by an OCTA bus, according to a news report. Romeo Jimenez died an hour following the accident at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said that Mr. Jimenez was riding…
On November 17, 2011 Daniel J. Callahan and Edward Susolik of Callahan & Blaine will present a seminar on litigation management to approximately 50 general counsel members of the American Corporate Counsel Association. The seminar, entitled “Litigation Strategies for the Defense: Secrets and Insights for Corporate Counsel,” will discuss strong and powerful strategies on defending…
On Friday, August 5, 2011, a jury in Fresno, California returned a complete defense verdict for the widow of a Palm Desert man who allegedly ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in California. Marc P. Miles and Kristy A. Schlesinger of Callahan & Blaine in Santa Ana, California, defended Kathy Otto in a class…
On Tuesday, August 9, 2011, Edward Susolik will present “Insurance Issues in Intellectual Property Litigation” to corporate and in-house counsel from Orange County. The presentation is being sponsored by the Corporate Counsel Section of the Orange County Bar Association, and will take place at noon at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach, California. Mr. Susolik…
A man in his late 70s was pulled from his car just minutes before it was hit by an Amtrak train in Fullerton, according to a news report. The man was driving a Cadillac west on Commonwealth Ave. and apparently ran a red light and was struck by the driver of an SUV in the…
