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Top Women Lawyers

May 12, 2011

Leila J. Noel

Cappello & Noel LLP Location: Santa Barbara Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Patent, labor & employment



The $3.5 million in penalties that a Los Angeles jury awarded plaintiffs suing Wells Fargo in March may not have been a huge financial windfall, but for Noel, it was more about the principle. Noel was co-lead counsel in a civil rights class action accusing the bank of charging minorities in several Southern California communities higher rates for loans than their wealthier white counterparts in Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles, (Opal Jones et al v. Wells Fargo Ba...

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