Criminal
Jun. 28, 2022
Avenatti, in default, owes what former co-counsel claims, judge indicates
“Whatever Robert Stoll is awarded will probably never be collected because there are already many millions in civil judgments and criminal penalties against Avenatti,” Lawrence Conlan of Capello & Noel LLP, representing the two clients in the case.
WESTMINSTER — Because suspended attorney Michael J. Avenatti is in default, Orange County Superior Court Judge Walter P. Schwarm is still deciding the fee amount owed to his co-counsel Robert J. Stoll Jr. after an 11-year litigation following a $39 million settlement.
Last week the jury ruled out that Avenatti’s former clients, William Parrish and Timothy Fitzgibbons, instructed him not to pay Stoll, a partner at Stoll Nussbaum & Polak...
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