Our team of fire lawyers including Mike Kelly, Khaldoun Baghdadi, Andrew McDevitt, Max Schuver, and Owen Stephens, plus a host of paralegals, legal assistants and other specialists, have been toiling on behalf of fire victims for seven years since the 2017 fires. As the Fire Victim Trust winds down and the final payments are made, we look back on the journey of our clients who put their faith in our representation. Our team has acted as co-leads in the state court litigation, as counsel for the Chair of the Tort Claimants Committee in the bankruptcy, and has participated on the Settlement Oversight Committee. We have worked ceaselessly to ensure that our clients and the families and businesses who lost so much, were able to recover the maximum possible amounts under bankruptcy court rules and the specific conditions of the bankruptcy plan approved by the court. With a final payment still to come, we are proud of the amounts we have been able to recover. While no particular client’s losses are more tragic than others, we reflect on some whose claims are especially memorable. We think of a celebrated artist who lost his collection and a lifetime of collected art, produced both by his own hands and his cherished friends; the owners of a unique architectural landmark home surrounded by acres of native trees, all destroyed; a multigenerational family winery, reduced to ash with years of production lost; an incinerated Atlas Peak sanctuary where our clients lost their home and lodging quarters for wine member guests; a burned out non-profit center dedicated to the care of children with special needs. In all of these cases and hundreds more, we brought our best efforts to achieve awards of millions of dollars to help our clients rebuild their lives. We are grateful to our clients for their patience, positivity, and persistence. We pray that this kind of tragedy never reoccurs.
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