Cappello & Noel

A. Barry Cappello and Leila J. Noël, partners in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, have been named as two of the top attorneys in Southern California for 2013 by Super Lawyers Southern California magazine.

Santa Barbara County and Santa Barbara County Sherriff's Department have agreed to pay a $4.8 million settlement to the survivors and their parents of a 2009 wrong way driver accident that took two lives and seriously injured two others.

A judge awarded nearly $5 million to the attorneys representing plaintiffs in a lending discrimination class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo Bank.

Leila J. Noël, partner in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, has joined the board of directors of the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County.

After a seven-week trial and one day of deliberations, a jury in Santa Barbara rejected anti-trust conspiracy claims by spine surgeon Dr. Alan Moelleken against Cottage Hospital and four of its on-call neurosurgeons.

Leila J. Noël, partner in the Santa Barbara law firm of Cappello & Noël LLP, has been named by Super Lawyers Southern California magazine as one of the top attorneys in Southern California for 2012.

Cappello & Noël, LLP made a five-year financial commitment to support the Santa Barbara County Legal Aid Foundation. The Santa Barbara-based law firm announced it would donate $10,000 a year for five years to the non-profit organization.

A collapse of the commercial real estate sector will be catastrophic to financial institutions and the economy so lenders must act now to avoid such a financial debacle, says A. Barry Cappello, an attorney specializing in lender liability law.

Leila J. Noël named one of the "Top 75 Women Lawyers" in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals. Noël was the only attorney selected from Santa Barbara, Ventura or San Luis Obispo Counties.

MGA Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based toymaker best known for its Bratz product line, filed a lawsuit against large European banks over their alleged concealment of accounting fraud at French toymaker Smoby prior to MGA's purchase of the company.