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Class Action Trial Lawyers · California

Big enough to fight a utility. Built to try the case.

When a wildfire, a chemical release or an industrial fire is a company's fault, the community deserves more than a claims desk. LaCour brings a seven-office trial firm to the fight, and prepares every case for a jury from the first day.

$200M+Recovered for clients
15+Years in California courts
7Offices statewide
4.9Client rating · 850+ reviews

Active Class Actions

Three disasters. Three communities. One firm standing with them.

Each of these events displaced tens of thousands of people, and each has a company behind it whose choices are now on trial. If you lived, worked or owned a business in the affected area, you may be part of the class.

WildfireAccepting clients

Eaton Fire

Altadena · Pasadena · January 7, 2025

More than 9,000 structures lost and at least nineteen lives. Evidence points to Southern California Edison transmission equipment in Eaton Canyon, on a circuit that had sat idle since 1971, on a night the utility could not de-energize its lines.

The Eaton Fire case
9,000+Homes and structures destroyed
Property claims file byJanuary 2028
Chemical ReleaseAccepting clients

GKN Aerospace

Garden Grove · Orange County · May 21, 2026

A failed valve on a tank of methyl methacrylate put six cities under evacuation for days over a holiday weekend, after years of Cal/OSHA violations and air-quality penalties at the same plant. Roughly 3,000 businesses closed their doors.

The Garden Grove case
50,000People ordered to evacuate
Injury claims file byMay 2028
Industrial FireAccepting clients

Lineage Warehouse Fire

Boyle Heights · East LA · Commerce · Montebello · June 17, 2026

A cold-storage warehouse holding 85 million pounds of food burned for a week and ruptured an ammonia line, leaving surrounding neighborhoods with smoke, ash, odor and vermin. The same building had caught fire two years earlier.

The Boyle Heights case
85M lbsOf food that burned for a week
Injury claims file byJune 2028

Case facts are drawn from public reporting and official statements as of September 2026 and are updated as the matters develop. Filing deadlines are general limitation periods; your own deadline may differ, so please contact us before relying on any date.

Latest update · August 14, 2026Court sends the Eaton Fire case toward a juryRead

Why LaCour

The size to outlast them. The trial lawyers to beat them.

Trial lawyers, not claim processors

A class action is still a jury case at the end.

Our partners have tried employment and injury cases to verdict across California for fifteen years. A defendant that knows you will try the case pays differently than one that knows you won't, so we prepare every matter that way from the first day.

The whole community

The smallest claims are not left behind.

Renters, homeowners, small businesses, the family that evacuated for four nights and the family that lost everything. A class action exists so that the people with the least leverage get the same lawyers as the people with the most.

The resources to see it through

A utility plans to wait a small firm out.

We are not a small firm. LaCour is the class-action practice of Employees First Labor Law, P.C.: seven offices, a full litigation support team, a workers' compensation department, and more than $200 million recovered for Californians.

Lisa Noveck, Jonathan LaCour and Rony Barsoum outside the firm's offices
The partners who sign the complaint are the partners who try the case.
Jonathan P. LaCour · Founding Partner

The Partners

Led by three partners. Backed by the whole firm.

A litigation team, a workers' compensation department and seven offices stand behind every case. These are the three people responsible for yours.

Seven offices
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