You may remember that Chain | Cohn | Stiles this year launched a new educational grant program open to all Kern County students. To apply for the "Chats with Chain Cohn Stiles" grants, students ask our lawyers a question and we award $500 to the student whose question gets picked.
Well, we have awarded our first grant and answered our first question from a student who asked: "Can social media be used against someone in a court case?" Watch the video by clicking the photo below.
Applications for the grant remain open for the rest of the year. Have your student apply at bit.ly/chatsgrants.
In other law firm news ...
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In a tragic case, our law firm recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the parents of 21-year-old Ryan Kowal, who died while in the care of SAILS Westbrook Crisis Home in Bakersfield. Kowal, who had severe autism and required one-on-one care, was left unsupervised, choked on crackers, and died. This is a warning to families of special-needs children and adults everywhere to beware of for-profit care facilities who sacrifice appropriate support and care, which they are contractually obligated to provide, to increase profit margins.
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Bakersfield is not safe for pedestrians. A new nationwide study lists Bakersfield as the No. 2 most dangerous metropolitan area in the United States to be a pedestrian. In fact, from 2010 to 2019, 260 pedestrians died in Bakersfield. Chain | Cohn | Stiles, which represents victims of pedestrian accidents, dives into this new study, why we are seeing high numbers of pedestrian accidents locally and nationally, and what can be done to fix this preventable crises.
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Chain | Cohn | Stiles has resolved four cases on behalf of students at North High School who were victims of sexual misconduct by an athletic equipment manager at the school – for a total of nearly $2 million. See full media coverage of the lawsuits, and criminal cases of Edwin Rodriguez at the link below.
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Lastly, last week we bid farewell to paralegal Lesleigh Johnston, who retired after first joining our firm 35 years ago. Lesleigh has been the backbone of our firm’s workers’ compensation department, and our clients and staff will miss her tremendously. In this picture here, she stands with work injury attorneys Jim Yoro, right, and Beatriz Trejo, who is wearing her "Lesleigh costume". Please join us in wishing her a happy retirement.
All the best to you and yours,
Jorge Barrientos
Director of Marketing & Public Relations
(661) 334-4948, jbarrientos@chainlaw.com
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