Civil Litigation
Dec. 1, 2025
Judge declines to halt LA fee fight between former law partners
A San Francisco judge refused to block a parallel Los Angeles lawsuit over $11.6 million in ABM Industries fee awards, deepening a dispute between former partners Matern and Rastegar over jurisdiction and entitlement.
A feud between former law partners has spilled into two California courthouses, as attorneys fight over the right to an $11.6 million share of attorney fees from a wage-and-hour class action that took nearly two decades to resolve.
Matthew J. Matern and his firm, Matern Law Group PC, asked a San Francisco Superior Court judge on Wednesday to issue an injunction preventing their former firm, Rastegar & Matern, and co-founder Farzad Rastegar from suing them in a separate lawsui...
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