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Real Estate/Development

Feb. 1, 2001

Simple Success

The same litigation approach Claremont trial attorney Herbert Hafif adopted 43 years ago still works: "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity," he says. This tried-and-true method worked once again last April when Hafif won California's fourth-highest verdict of the year - $54,439,611 - from an Orange County jury against the William Lyon Co. in Markley v. William Lyon Co., 706072 (Orange County Super. Ct., verdict April 1, 2000).

        No. 4 of the 10 Largest Verdicts of 2000

        By Ed Kimble
        
        The same litigation approach Claremont trial attorney Herbert Hafif adopted 43 years ago still works: "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity," he says. This tried-and-true method worked once again last ...

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