Kirkland & Ellis and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles helped ink a $1.025 million settlement for a group of displaced residents and homeless in a lawsuit challenging an effort to convert their rent-controlled apartments to hotel units.
The firm and legal aid attorneys filed suit last March against a Los Angeles landlord couple who told residents of the former Royal Park Motel, in the city’s Westlake area, that they needed to make repairs and renovations following a 2014 Christmas Eve fire that caused damage. The January 2016 notification to tenants described the move as temporary.
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