Trial Attorney

In cases where no other option but trial is available, I will aggressively argue your case in front of a judge or jury. With decades of trial experience in several fields of law, my litigation expertise with courtroom savvy covers many practice areas:

• Business Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• General Civil Litigation
• Construction Law
• Real Estate Litigation

I routinely arbitrate security deposit and sales disputes involving the American Industrial Real Estate Association’s contract forms for the purchase and sale of commercial and industrial property. As a leader in this field, I have filed hundreds of judicial foreclosure and quiet actions, seeking and obtaining receivers and injunctions. I have also filed hundreds of commercial evictions, tried dozens of them, where I appeared for both landlords and tenants. I have brought and defended sales “disclosure” disputes, giving rise to broker malpractice claims. I have prosecuted claims for unpaid brokerage commissions, often arising from de-listed properties, on the one hand, or from one brokerage house circumventing the listing agreement of another brokerage house, on the other hand. I have also tried lawsuits relying on real estate appraisal practice and guidelines from the Appraisal Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

In addition, I have tried and resolved partnership and corporate dissolutions, involving forensic accounting and fraud investigations. As an offshoot of my accounting litigation practice, I assist with marital dissolutions and property settlements. I am thoroughly familiar with business ledgers, bookkeeping and accounting practice, and trade secret principles.

I conduct trials for disputes arising from the sales of businesses and franchises. Trials arising from business sales involve fraud and nondisclosure claims, often with fraud examinations of financial records. Such sales usually involve security agreements for personal property and accounts receivables with financial statements (UCC-1) being recorded with the California Secretary of State. I prosecute and defend applications to enforce such security agreement by way of a Right to Attach Order and Temporary Protective Order, having experience with the specialized rules and customs of specialty attachment departments.

Another facet of my practice is sophisticated collections – for creditors – and corporate dissolution and restructuring under California laws – for debtors. Often, this involves prosecuting and defending collection cases for trade debt.