Partner David Ring presented at the 10 th Annual Mediation Awareness Week hosted by the Southern California Mediation Association for the City of Los Angeles on March 21, 2014. City Attorney Mike Feuer and leaders of the plaintiffs and defense bars discussed the benefits of mediation as a fast and fair dispute resolution tool in…
John C. Taylor and James W. Lewis of Taylor & Ring obtained a landmark $5.4 million jury verdict for a woman who was raped at a night club in West Hollywood. The woman, now 43 years old, sued Here Lounge and nightclub worker Victor Cruz for assault and rape in the club’s bathroom. Santa Monica…
David Ring and Robert Clayton of Taylor & Ring obtained a $700,000 settlement from the Torrance Unified School District on behalf of five students who were injured in 2010 by a portable stove explosion at North High School. Two of the students suffered serious injuries, including second-degree burns to their face and body. Luckily, the…
David Ring and Jim Lewis reached a settlement of $3 million for their client in a child sex abuse case against the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, in Santa Cruz, CA. Steven Jay Sande, a former teacher at Aptos Junior High School, pled guilty to 19 felonies stemming from his sex abuse of a 12-13…
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley and a boy who was a member of the Club were ordered to pay $1.4 million to a 19-year-old man who was sexually abused while he was attending the Club when he was 9 years old. The lawyers representing the victim were David Ring and Louanne Masry.…
Taylor & Ring filed a lawsuit on behalf of a woman who lost nearly 95 percent of her eyesight after being struck in the head by a flying “Frisbee”-like golf disk in Polliwog Park. The lawsuit filed against the City of Manhattan Beach, seeks to recover significant compensation for the woman’s serious injuries. The victim…
Taylor & Ring is representing a 15-year-old boy in a sexual abuse case against the Salinas Union High School District; the boy’s former school counselor Gilbert Olivares; and Mr. Olivares’ former employer, Sunrise House, an organization that placed the counselor in the school. The lawsuit alleges that Gilbert Olivares was supposed to be providing counselling…
Taylor & Ring obtained a $5.6 million jury verdict on behalf of a teenage girl against Chino Valley Unified School District and its science teacher John Hirsch after Hirsch engaged in unlawful sex with the student. At trial, the victim’s lawyers, David Ring and Louanne Masry, proved that the School District knew Hirsch had sent…
Taylor & Ring obtained a $1.4 million jury verdict on behalf of a special needs student who was sexually assaulted while enrolled in a Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) after school care program. The girl, who was nine years old at the time of the incidents, was sexually assaulted by a then 10-year-old male…
David Ring of Taylor & Ring discusses the implications of yet another sexual abuse scandal occurring in the nation’s largest public school system, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) . After years of complaints were apparently ignored, Robert Pimentel, a former fourth grade teacher at LAUSD, was arrested on suspicion of molesting 20 students.…