Posts by Brendan Gilbert

CBS Los Angeles reports that Taylor & Ring attorney Brendan Gilbert filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District and Hamilton High School teacher Barry Smolin, alleging that Smolin groomed and sexually abused a teenage student over the course of several years. “Most concerning is that it took place in his classroom,” Gilbert…

ABC 30 Action News reports that Taylor & Ring attorney Brendan Gilbert successfully secured an $8 million settlement in a sexual abuse case against Visalia Unified School District. Gilbert spoke to reporters about the former campus supervisor named in the lawsuit, “He’s a textbook predator. He’s victimized minor females essentially everywhere he’s gone in his…

Taylor & Ring is representing two women (“Jane Doe 1” and “Jane Doe 2”) in civil claims against Palm Springs (PSUSD) and Coachella Valley Unified School Districts (CVUSD), alleging a failure to protect students who were sexually abused by bus drive Jose Luis Moncada. Moncada, who was arrested and charged with eight counts of “committing…