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Richard Widom's Motion For Net Worth Discovery Of The Stockwell Firm Denied By The Court
By Lonce LaMon - January 29, 2013

Workers’ Compensation defense attorney Richard Widom’s Motion To Permit Discovery of the Stockwell firm’s financial condition was denied by Judge Gregory Alarcon in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court on last Tuesday, January 22nd 2013.
 
Throughout the Superior Court document that was filed on January 22nd 2013, it refers to the Court of Appeals remand from April 26th 2011.  This is a mistake.   The decision from the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Second Appellate District, Division Three, was filed on April 26th 2012.   Please keep this in mind, reader, if you review this document offered here.   This writer did not correct the published court original document.    But the court document cites the date of the appeal decision off by exactly one full year.  Realize when reading that the correct date is April 26, 2012.   Four trial court decisions by the previous judge on this case, Susan Bryant Deason, were overturned on this appeal. 

This January 22nd 2013 court document is a heart rending telling of a lawyer accusing the Stockwell firm—now Stockwell, Harris, Woolverton & Muehl—a 60-year-veteran institution in workers’ compensation claims defense in California, of wrongful termination done with malice and oppression.   The court found the case to be otherwise. 
 
The court did not find that the Stockwell firm’s belief that Richard Widom beat and battered his wife, Lisa Kerner, on March 1st 2009, who was also a lawyer in the Stockwell firm, was a belief that was unreasonable.  The decision states that the Stockwell firm presented “compelling and conflicting evidence to show that they had a good faith belief that Plaintiff (Widom) did beat his wife and abuse other women.” Names, relationships, and settlements made with specific women are spelled out from the Stockwell firm as evidence.
 
Stockwell had reason, according to the court, to explain to its employees why Stockwell partner Richard Widom had been terminated.  Widom was terminated after 30 years with the firm—with most of those years as a partner—after the dramatic and startling physical altercation with Lisa.   Thus the explaining of why Widom was terminated—both to employees of the Stockwell firm and also to some clients—was not interpreted by the court as malicious or oppressive. For this reason, the court deduced that Richard Widom did not have a substantial likelihood to win punitive damages and therefore qualify for discovery of Stockwell's financial condition.
 
Much shockingly prurient information is spelled out in this January 22nd 2013 document regarding Richard Widom’s alleged sexual improprieties.   George Woolverton, a Stockwell partner, is accused by his own ex-wife, Katherine Higgins, of making certain statements that Woolverton flatly denies, such as that Widom had committed acts of sodomy, theft, and had given Lisa Kerner a venereal disease.   An allegation was also made that George Woolverton found a “video tape” of Richard Widom engaging in sexual activity with a client.  There’s even another accusation against Woolverton by his ex-wife that Woolverton tried to bribe a witness with $20,000 and asked her to destroy documents and change her testimony.   Widom then further accuses Woolverton of making statements that Widom was observed “in the company of prostitutes”.  
 
So it’s a “he said, she said” Rated-X litany of outrageous allegations with salacious, lascivious accusations.
 
The next court date for this case has either not been set at this time or is unknown.  But the Trial is set for June 4th 2013. 
 

 
 
 

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