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

Real Estate

• Successfully negotiated resolution on behalf of a property owner in a complex defeasance, fraud, unlawful detainer action involving a commercial prune-packing facility.
  
• Successfully defended clients in a neighbor dispute at both the trial court level and the 9th Circuit on due process and equal protection claims stemming from a lot line adjustment in Placer County.
  
• 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.
  
• Currently defending owner/developer of residential development against claims by general contractor and subcontractor of changed work conditions resulting in increased costs.
  
• Currently defending guarantor of residential development against claims of lender on default of loan by borrower.
  
• Currently defending investor of land development against claims of bankruptcy/surety on agreement to indemnify for work stoppage on project.
  
• Currently defending a large developer client with complex easement dispute involving ingress/egress rights affecting multi-million dollar commercial property.
  
• Currently defending a public entity sanitation district against a claim for quiet title, involving the entity's previous acquisition of land by eminent domain.
  
• Brought quiet title action on behalf of individual property developer who purchased residential property at county tax sale.  Liens were originally held by two private defendants, two state entities and the United States on behalf of the IRS.  Currently attempting to broker potential negotiations between the IRS and county conducting the sale over deficiencies in the sale's process.
  
• Prevailed on directed verdict motion on claims filed against an escrow company over a multimillion dollar commercial real estate sale in Kern County, California.  Defeated both breach of contract and negligence claims against defendant escrow company and obtained judgment in favor of our client for attorney's fees as prevailing party.