Ojai Lawyers

Mr. Chernin earned a B.A. in International Relations from UCLA and a J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he was elected to membership in the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society, and where he placed first in the School’s Scott Moot Court competition. Mr.Chernin has been a practicing attorney in California for more than fifty years, focusing primarily on all aspects of real property law, including but not limited to, acquisitions and sales, land use, construction, and mortgage financing. He was Regional Counsel for The Prudential Realty Group, the real estate investment division of The Prudential Insurance Company...

Marc Weinberg is a graduate of U.C. Davis, where he received two undergraduate degrees, a B.S. in Zoology and B.A. in Art History. He received his J.D. in Law in 1979, was admitted to the California Bar in 1980, Federal Court, Central District in 1982, and Eastern District in 2004. The Law Offices of Marc Weinberg is a general practice that focuses on Chapter 7 bankruptcy, construction disputes, and general contractual business matters. In the more than 40 years of practicing law, Marc Weinberg, has represented countless individuals and businesses in civil litigation. Having represented collection agencies in pursuit of...

Ms. Steers is the founding member of the Law Offices of Steers & Associates, a full-service law firm specializing in debt relief services for individuals and small businesses. With many years of legal experience, Elena particularly helps clients by carefully breaking down the often complicated procedures and challenging language of the legal system into common understandable terms, so clients clearly understand the debt relief options that can be legally pursued. Unique to Elena's legal experience is her extensive background on all sides of debt negotiations and bankruptcy filings. She previously worked as a Bankruptcy Trustee Assistant at the Office of the...

For almost 40 years, Harmon Sieff has developed a reputation for success, legal expertise, dependability, and business acumen while providing his clientele with positive results and peace of mind as to their legal affairs. During this time, Mr. Sieff has mastered many diverse disciplines to optimize his clients' best interests in a practice which emphasizes business counsel, transactions, and litigation. He enjoys long-standing relationships with clients in many industries, including real estate, manufacturing, distribution, software development, and industrial services. He counsels emerging business entities and mature businesses in various aspects of their growth, contractual relationships, disputes, and operations.

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We have a civil law practice which focuses on business transactions and litigation, including contract formation, dispute resolution and all types of real estate matters. The Principal, Michael Isaac Shokrian, is a licensed real estate broker. We provide legal counsel to many small businesses as well as mid- and larger sized businesses. Our focus is on preemptive transactional guidance for the purpose of navigating around and avoiding/preventing litigation, not moving toward it. However, we are an aggressive and full service litigation office if and when necessary. We work and associate with experienced attorneys up and down the West Coast and...

Suren is a partner at H&A Law Office, PC, focusing on all facets of employment litigation for employees, advocating in state and federal courts, as well as arbitration. Suren has dedicated his entire professional career to representing employees. His passion for fighting for the rights of employees began in law school, where he spent a summer as a judicial extern at the California Supreme Court for the Honorable Justice Ming Chin, where he was first exposed to employment law. Prior to founding H&A Law Office, Suren worked at two prominent employee-side law firms, prosecuting cases on behalf of mistreated workers....

Peter Sidhu serves Ventura County and beyond in the matters of Employment Law, Criminal Defense, Child Custody, Personal Injury, and Social Security Disability.

James graduated from California State University Northridge with honors and a B.A. in Electronic Media Management. He received his Juris Doctorate from California Western School of Law and is admitted to practice law in the State of California and the State of New Jersey. After admission to the State Bar of California, James served as General Counsel for various entities. James has significant knowledge in the development and implementation of legal protocols and processes geared for the development of small to medium sized businesses. His experience in business law, employment law, tax, contracts, acquisitions, risk prevention and general...

Attorney Allen Bell is a Retired Police Officer and the Senior Trial Attorney at The Law Offices of Allen J. Bell & Associates. He is also the founder of The Traumatic Injury Center and The Sexual Harassment Training Institute. He represents clients in both State and Federal Court in significant CRIMINAL and CIVIL matters.

Mr. Bell is admitted to practice in all courts of the State of California, the United States District Court, Central District; the United States District Court, Northern District; the United States District...

Management Concepts, Inc.  Consultant Instructor/Subject Matter Expert 2023-Present  Lectures on government contract law and policy, ethics and fiscal law for federal civilian agencies, DoD, and private sector audiences using student-centered methodologies  Navy General Counsel, Department of the Navy  Various Assignments 1985-2000, 2007-2023  Legal services in support of the Navy’s Global mission, primarily in the areas of procurement, grants, personnel law, government ethics, administrative law and fiscal law.   Defense Acquisition University Counsel, Professor of Contract Law 2000-2007  Provided instructional services on government contract law, fiscal law and ethics.  Delivered approximately 15 one and two-week classes per fiscal year.  Served as Counsel to University. Office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of...

Former Deputy District Attorney in both Merced and Santa Barbara County. With close to 10 years of experience as a dedicated DA, I have now branched my experience into my own practice assisting people in defending their constitutional rights, and providing legal services in all other areas of the law.

David A. Esquibias is a lawyer who also has a post graduate Master of Laws in Taxation degree. Mr. Esquibias is one of few attorneys certified by the State Bar of California as a specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law. Mr. Esquibias has nearly 30 years of experience as a successful trust and estate trial litigator. Mr. Esquibias specializes in attacking or defending complex trust and estate administrations and accountings. Mr. Esquibias represents high net worth families, their trustees and executors.

Kent W. Keating is an attorney specializing in comprehensive estate planning and business transactional matters. He provides estate planning services including living trusts, irrevocable trusts, health care directives, power of attorneys and related documents. He also provides business services such as drafting contracts and agreements of all kinds as well as business succession services to protect family owned businesses for future generations. He takes great pride in providing quality services for his clients and working diligent with his clients to ensure they are protected from future liability or future family disputes with regard to their businesses or estate plans.

Janet Greathouse has dedicated her legal career to assisting individuals and businesses of all sizes in meeting their immigration needs. Whether representing a client in overcoming a visa application denial or a business in petitioning on behalf of a foreign worker, Ms. Greathouse strives to meet the highest professional standards. Ms. Greathouse has extensive experience in a wide range of visa matters, such as successfully assisting investors in obtaining E-2 and immigrant investor (EB-5) visas. In representing corporate clients, Ms. Greathouse assisted companies in obtaining nonimmigrant work related visas (H-1B, L-1 and TN), and employment based lawful...

Franchise Legal Support is a law firm dedicated to assisting residents in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas of Southern California with their franchise law and mediation matters. For 26 years, Attorney David Levaton has been a dedicated representative of the franchise community. Unlike most franchise lawyers, Mr. Levaton is a former owner and operator of a multi-unit franchise operation. Due to this experience from both the legal and business side of the operation, Mr. Levaton is committed to acting as a neutral to all aspects of franchising. He believes it is important to treat each case individually, in order...

I had a 27-year career with the IRS as an Estate Tax Attorney. My focus is on valuation issues relating to intellectual property (music/film copyrights, name and likeness rights) and business (partial interest discounts) assets.

Los Angeles Business Attorney

Walter F. Wiggins, Jr. received his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Loyola Marymount University in 1983 with majors in Political Science and History. Wiggins received "Honors at Entrance" status and was awarded the Jesuit Community Scholarship. At LMU Wiggins was active in student government, was a member of the university's Honors Program, and was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the national History Honor Society. In his senior year, Wiggins was designated the liaison between the student body and the Board of Trustees, the governing body of the university. Wiggins also served as President of the...