Hillel chodos biography

Metropolitan News-Enterprise

 

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

 

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Plaintiff Whose Award Is Reduced Entitled to Interest From Date of Original Judgment—Panel

 

By a MetNews Staff Writer

 

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge erred by failing to provide for post-judgment interest, from the date of the original judgment, in favor of a plaintiff whose recovery was significantly slashed on appeal, the Court of Appeal for this district ruled yesterday.

Rejecting the defendant’s claim that the plaintiff was only entitled to post-judgment interest from the date the trial court entered the reduced judgment, Div. Five yesterday awarded Los Angeles attorney Hillel Chodos 10 percent interest on his recovery of nearly $1.8 million from a former client, from Sept.

19, 2013.

The ex-client, Navabeh Borman, argued that interest should only have run from Nov. 14 of last year.

The opinion is the third in the saga of Chodos’s effort to recover fees for repr