El Sobrante Lawyers

For 11 years, Ms. Mills practiced law as a litigator. In Spring, 2007, she gave up the practice of litigation to focus exclusively on mediation. Today, Ms. Mills is a mediator focusing on elder mediation and civil mediation. Most of her practice is in Contra Costa County, but she will travel throughout the Bay Area for mediation.

For the past eight years at Losch & Ehrlich, Mark Meyer has handled civil litigation for businesses and individuals in state and federal courts on a wide range of issues, including contracts, real property, torts, successor liability, class actions, employment, construction, administrative and writ proceedings, anti-trust, and public contract bidding.

He has been responsible for all aspects of civil litigation, including motions, mediation, trials, and appeals. Able to successfully take matters through trial, Mark understands that efficiently resolving disputes is often in the parties’ best interest.

Mark also reviews contracts and other business transactions, with an eye towards avoiding issues that...

Tax Attorney

Rebecca is an immigration attorney specializing in both employment-based and family-based immigration matters. She represents companies in a variety of industries in obtaining specialty occupation and extraordinary ability non-immigrant visas for foreign nationals. Her practice also includes employment-based and family-based permanent residence (green cards), naturalization, and humanitarian relief. She has successfully represented clients before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Immigration Court. Rebecca also handles work-site immigration compliance issues (I-9 compliance). Rebecca received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia, School of Law where she was a member of the J.B. Moore Society for International Law as well...

Nick Casper is a Managing Partner at Casper, Meadows, Schwartz & Cook, where he has worked since 2007. As a plaintiffs' attorney, Nick has been an active participant in the litigation of many of the firm’s largest cases. These cases involved wrongful death, catastrophic injury, products liability, child sexual abuse, and civil rights violations. Most recently, Nick obtained settlements of $9 million in a premises liability case and $3.2 million in a truck-vs.-pedestrian death of a senior citizen. Nick has been lead trial counsel in five civil jury trials in both state and federal court. He was named to the Top 100...

www.legalandops.com

Karen Matcke Crosby Attorney / Mediator P.C. 35+ years of legal practice and 15+ years as a mediator. WHY MEDIATION CAN BE SUPERIOR TO COURT By Karen Matcke Crosby (2021) Court litigation exposes parties to great public exposure, expense and long delays in court proceedings. Litigants have little or no control over the procedural process. How a dispute arose in the first place, is given short shrift, failing to consider the parties’ intentions, experience in negotiations (or lack thereof), personality, ego, culture, norms, morals, bullying, customs, or values. What is heard in court is the representing attorney’s version of his client’s legal...

My mission is to promote justice and equality, using existing laws and creating additional laws to protect people's constitutional rights.

I am a gentle kind effective litigator trial lawyer navigator between civil and white collar crime in federal and state court in multiple areas including fraud, abuse of process, financial elder abuse, contracts, federal tort claims and family law. My love is rough water swimming. Experience is knowing the tides of the water and the tides of litigation.

Elinor Leary is the team leader of the Leary Trial Team which handles complex cases that involve life-altering injuries or death. The Leary Trial Team has expertise with cases that involve construction and worksite injuries, defective products, dangerous property conditions, negligent security, car and truck collisions, and incidents that involve pedestrians and bicyclists. Ms. Leary has tried cases to verdict as well as reached large settlements in numerous other cases, including cases listed in The Recorder’s “Top Settlements” publications.

Ms. Leary was a public defender in Alameda County and has been a clinical professor at the University of San Francisco School...