The $900 Dryer that Cost Samsung $26,000+ Online consumer forums from the Better Business Bureau to TrustPilot and Reddit document thousands of consumer experiences with product companies refusing to honor their warranties. For some companies, it’s a deliberately cultivated practice intended to cut costs and increase profit margins. The playbook is simple: deny, delay, deflect. They claim the specific defect isn’t covered. They point fingers at the retailer, the delivery guy, the installer, or even you. Or, they send a technician to slap a “band-aid” on the problem—a cheap, temporary fix that fails the moment your warranty expires, forcing you
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I am often asked to take over cases from major L.A.-based firms.  Far too often, I uncover rampant billing abuses and outright fraud committed by the client’s former lawyers.  It has become so common that I decided to draft this article to better educate the public. To be clear, this article is not intended to solicit cases: this firm does not specialize in legal malpractice (there is rarely enough money involved in such cases to justify hiring an expensive lawyer).  The aim is to educate others on how to protect themselves from bad lawyers.  As they say, “one bad apple
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Code of Civil Procedure Section 128.7 In appropriate cases, a motion for sanctions under Code of Civil Procedure section 128.7 can be highly effective at dismissing a lawsuit with prejudice early on without the expense of protracted litigation. Due to the high volume of requests received by this office, we provide the below samples of section 128.7 motions and court orders granting same. (A lot of information and sample documents about section 128.7 are provided on this website by popular request. Nonetheless, we continue to receive a large volume of calls inquiring further. We hope you understand that we cannot
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There are distinct advantages to a §128.7 motion: less cost, speedier dismissal and recovery of attorney’s fees. A motion for summary judgment typically costs more over the duration of the case: it involves more paperwork (e.g., preparation of a Separate Statement of Undisputed Material Facts) and usually precedes expensive discovery taken by the plaintiff gathering evidence to prepare an opposition. This is not to say that a §128.7 motion is the better option in all cases. Despite its advantages, a §128.7 motion is much more difficult to win than a motion for summary judgment. In deciding which motion is best,
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