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| • July 25, 2011: Counsel is happy to report that, after a two-week trial in San Diego, on a $100K insurance policy covering a rear-end auto accident, he obtained a $750K verdict from a jury, despite a litany of defense attacks raising issues of vicarious liability, pre-existing injury, causation, and the necessity for surgery. Despite a number of collectability issues, counsel was able to liquidate the judgment in its entirety. |
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• December 27, 2010:
Attorney Pavone's dedication to client and cause is unparalleled. In 2005, when a clientretained Pavone to seek redress from a business partner that cheated him, Pavone, moved by the injustice, took on the challenge.
Repeated gestures were made to settle the case, but the defendant and his lawyer perceived that neither the client nor Pavone would stand up to them. They refused to settle on reasonable terms and instead tried to leverage their financial advantage and defense counsel's experience advantage to avoid all responsibility for their conduct. Pavone filed suit.
After a jury trial in two phases, the defendant suffered a half-million dollarfraud judgment and eventually had had to file bankruptcy. The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment, and it became non-dischargeable. The stress and chaos of litigation caused the defendant to botch aspects of the business, and eventually lost the business.
Pavone also filed suit against the attorney, for malpractice and civil RICO. The lawyer never got paid the approximate $750K in attorney's fees he inexplicably advanced to his client during the litigation. The lawyer additionally advanced $150K of his own cash in an attempt to save the business from his and his client’s legal miscalculations -- and he lost that as well.
The lawyer's malpractice carrier hired a law firm. Rationality set in and the case against thereafter settled in December 2010. The damage was irreparable.
"I prefer to settle cases rather than go to trial. I don't undertake the risk of trial lightly. But when I take a case, I make a commitment to the client to go the distance. If an opponent announces that he wants to go to the mat, I will go to the mat. His size and money may symbolize strength, but they are no match for actual ferocity. This case spectacularly demonstrates the difference, as well as reinforcing the eternal wisdom of humility and settlement."
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• December 20, 2010: In a business dispute between Attorney Pavone and Chuck Yeager, the famous pilot, Pavone is pleased to report that a jury unanimously sided with him in awarding a civil judgment of $114,000 in damages against the former General. The two week trial resulted in the jury's decision that Yeager acted in bad faith and was in breach a contract. |
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| • May 10, 2009: In the case of Richard Monroe v. Calvin Broadus (aka "Snoop Dogg") et al, Mr. Pavone is pleased to announce that through the combined efforts of his office and two other litigators, a verdict for Mr. Monroe was obtained in the amount of $449,000 plus costs. The case originated from an on-stage scuffle between Broadus' bodyguards, Monroe and others at a Snoop Dogg concert. Despite forceful arguments from the defense that Monroe's woes were self-inflicted by his decision to go on stage, the jury felt that the reaction of certain defendants on stage was excessive and therefore found in Monroe's favor. |
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| • March 25, 2008: In the case of Mary Ellis v. Tom Lambie, plaintiff Ellis,
51, an interior decorator, argued that in spite
of an agreement for $10,000, she had performed "extra"
decorator services worth $150,000 on a custom home constructed
for Mr. Lambie, 87, in Borrego Springs, California.
Ellis claimed Lambie cheated him out of payment
for the extra work and that Lambie did not appreciate the
"unique talents and abilities" that she brought to the project.
After a hard fought, five day trial against respected
firm Neil Dymott, the jury not only ruled in favor of Mr.
Pavone's client, Lambie, but rendered its unanimous decision
in (1) hour and commented afterward that Pavone had destroyed
Ellis' case and credibility beyond recognition. |
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| • January 24, 2008: After threatening a parade of horrible consequences if Joe
Rosano and Seth Bogart stood their ground and
went to trial on a bond dispute, institutional bonding company
American Contractors Indemnity Company instead folded
their cards and unilaterally dismissed the case on
the eve of trial, in the wake of Bogart's decision to
call the bond company's bluff and take ACIC to task. |
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| • September 12, 2007: After an intense 8-day trial, a jury found that our client was cheated out of hist stake in a construction business and was awarded $550,000 in dmages. |
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| • On August 17, 2007,
Tom Dixson, the founder of Petco (the giant pet product retailer
and namesake of San Diego's baseball stadium), offered his
thanks to Mr. Pavone stating, "You are the best attorney
I have ever dealt with. Great job. |
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| • December 6, 2006 - Ben Pavone is pleased to report that after a tense 5-day trial, the jury concluded that our client is in fact 40% owner of a local construction company and is therefore entitled to damages, to be determined. |
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| • May 10, 2006 - Attorney Pavone is pleased to announce that, with one carefully
crafted letter, his client recovered $509,000. The wrongdoer,
who had basically hijacked Mr. Pavone's client's retirement
account, quickly capitulated under counsel's threat of a blitzkrieg
of legal action. |
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| • April 30, 2006 - Reggie Bush, the well-known USC running back turned pro,
has legal problems. A dispute that could have been resolved
amicably turned ugly when Bush attempted to publicly discredit
Michael C. Michaels. According to Profootballtalk.com, Bush's
lawyers clearly lost the publicity battle to Michael's lawyers,
represented by Watkins & Pavone. As a result, Bush has
been ripped apart publicly for allegedly defrauding Michaels
and other investors, he faces continued legal exposure, and
commentators are saying that Bush's lawyers botched his representation. |
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Reggie
Bush Ill-Advised - 4/29/06 |
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Press
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Football
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| • On July 28, 2005,
in the case of Wilson v. American Islamic Institute of Antelope
Valley, the Second District Court of Appeal found in favor
of the Wilson family, represented by Ben Pavone, to disinter
their daughter from a funeral gone bad in Los Angeles. Citing
the Islamic Cemetery's "fraudulent conduct," Nicole's
body was thereafter disinterred and brought home to rest in
San Diego ending a five-year struggle. |
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| • July, 15th, 2005 - The Los Angeles Daily Journal covered the case of Estate
of Wilson v. American Islamic Institute, which addresses questions
about a family's right to bury a loved one in the location
of their choice versus religious considerations of the decedent's
faith. The case is awaiting a ruling by the California Second
District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles. |
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| • February 23, 2003 - Football Hero Martyr'd: In the case of Demetrius DuBose versus City of San Diego, former Notre Dame and Tamba Bay Buccaneer football star Demetrius DuBose was shot in the back by San Diego police six times (twelve in total), after hopping over his neighbor's balcony in a minor incident. The DuBose family accused the officers of provoking the escalation of the incident, which resulted in DuBose fleeing and then being attacked by officers with their nunchakus. DuBose resisted the beating. Although a jury ultimately exonerated the officers by the fact that DuBose did not listen carefully enough to their commands to stop resisting, the negative attention from the case had a long lasting impact on the San Diego Police Department. |
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