Cases of Interest

• ADA Accessibility Compliance
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Appellate
• Business
• Construction
• Education Law
• Employment
• Employment Practices & Liability Insurance
• Environmental Law & Property Rights
• Healthcare
• Personal Injury
• Plaintiff Representation
• Premises Liability
• Products Liability
• Professional Liability
• Public Entities
• Real Estate

Environmental Law & Property Rights

• Represented one of the nation's largest bridge builders against the State of California involving multi-million dollar claims pertaining to air quality issues concerning construction equipment. Case resolved favorably for client prior to trial.
  
• Successfully negotiated resolution on behalf of a property owner in a complex defeasance, fraud, unlawful detainer action involving a commercial prune-packing facility.
  
• Obtained a verdict covering full indemnity and attorneys fees and costs, with findings of constructive fraud, for a real estate broker against a former agent who left the broker and client home seller stuck with a buyers walk-away.
  
• Perfected a prescriptive easement for a peach farmer, including access for the farm's heavy trucks and farm machinery, against the new owner of the burdened estate trying to close the road.
  
• Successfully defended a multi-million dollar action alleging inverse condemnation in the form of both regulatory and physical taking arising from denials of development applications and increase flood burden due to public projects.
  
• Successfully defended a university in a case involving asserted equitable easement claim across research facility property next to a major Northern California river where it was alleged easement rights were created by gold miners use of property dating back to the 1960's.
  
• Nominal settlement in a 500+ flood case in which the defendants, who originally did not want to settle, eventually agreed to a sum in excess of $20 million, after trial, multiple appeals and demands.
  
• Currently defending an entity on administrative mandamus and inverse condemnation claims following a stop work order issued in connection with non-functioning alternative disposal system.
  
• Currently defending egg rancher against claims by neighboring property owners and The Humane Society for nuisance and CERCLA reporting requirements.
  
• Currently representing one of California’s largest egg producers against federal environmental claims brought by the Humane Society of the United States, related to the animal rights group’s Proposition 2 campaign against factory farms. Along with local residents, the Humane Society of the United States alleges that our client violated the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) for failing to report ammonia emissions from its animal waste. CERCLA and EPCRA were enacted to provide the federal government with broad authority to respond to releases of hazardous waste.