The Los Angeles Daily News published an article on this settlement, to read – click here. Mike Arias and Jamie Goldstein of Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos announced a settlement of a civil lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles and a public defender who was accused of sexually assaulting his own client in a… Read more
AAJ’s Trial magazine ran an article highlighting Elise Sanguinetti’s work to end housing discrimination in homeowner’s agreements. Ms. Sanguinetti noticed seriously racist language from the Jim Crow era in countless homeowner agreements dating back sixty and seventy years. Due to the difficult bureaucratic process and red tape, the language has often been left in these… Read more
Name partners Mike Arias and Alfredo Torrijos co-authored an article for The Advocate (the largest magazine in the United States for plaintiffs’ trial attorneys) titled “The new reality of law-firm technology.” This article examines how 2020 has radically changed the way law firms are implementing technology. These changes include how technology is implemented within the… Read more
LOS ANGELES, CA – September 3, 2020 – Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos (ASWT) and Janet, Janet and Suggs (JJS) filed another lawsuit on behalf of 25 former USC students alleging sexual abuse by USC OB/GYN Dr. George Tyndall. There are now over 800 of Tyndall’s victims who have opted out of the class action… Read more
San Francisco, CA – August 19, 2020 – A mass action lawsuit was filed against Neutron Holdings, Inc. (aka Lime) in San Francisco Superior Court today alleging the company deploys poorly manufactured scooters throughout the nation and purposefully fails to properly maintain those same scooters. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lime claims to offer “Smart Mobility… Read more
Los Angeles, CA – August 13, 2020 – Today, the California 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division Three, ruled in favor of a woman who had been sexually harassed by her former supervisor and wrongfully terminated by her employer Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Soledad Albarracin was an employee of Fidelity National Financial’s legal department in… Read more
AAJ chose to honor its Past-President and ASWT Co-Founding Partner Elise Sanguinetti by creating the Elise R. Sanguinetti Award which is given by the New Lawyer’s Division (NLD) and recognizes the qualities of professionalism, service, and advocacy, all of which Ms. Sanguinetti continues to exemplify. Ms. Sanguinetti was sent the following message when AAJ chose… Read more
Elise Sanguinetti was featured on the cover of the Daily Journal in an article that highlighted her quest to eradicate racist, Jim Crow-era language from homeowner’s agreements throughout California. Horrible, racist language appears in thousands upon thousands of agreements throughout California. For example, a homeowner’s agreement dated from 1948 has a very interesting portion in the… Read more
A retailer sued Farmers Insurance in Los Angeles Superior Court for denying a business interruption claim on the very same day the claim was made. The Great Frame Up is a national chain of framing stores with 100 locations throughout the United States. A franchisee of the Great Frame Up located in in Northridge, California brought a class… Read more
With their Spring 2020 semester devastated by the coronavirus outbreak, a University of Missouri student, seeking to represent a class of his schoolmates, sued the university system for compounding their hardship by failing to reimburse them for portions of their tuition and on-campus fees which they paid for but never benefited from. ASWT attorneys Mike… Read more