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James Cai
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 25 years of experience
580 California St
12th fl
San Francisco, CA 94104
Free ConsultationBusiness, IP, Immigration and Real Estate
Temple University Beasley School of Law
James Cai founded SAC Attorneys, LLP after serving as in-house legal counsel for Yahoo! Inc. His practice focuses on corporate law, immigration, employment and estate planning. Mr. Cai believes in relationship lawyering and has a client-driven practice. He practices law the old fashioned way - giving each client this full attention with prompt responses, thorough research and analysis, aggressive representation and careful attention to details, in both transactional and litigation matters. As a result, most of his clients are repeat and long term clients, including individuals, small businesses, non-profit organizations and public companies. Before founding SAC Attorneys, LLP,...
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Angela D. Warren
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Immigration
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
With decades of immigration and business immigration experience, Angela Warren has helped hundreds of individuals, families and businesses navigate US immigration issues and procure legal US visas.
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Feras Mousilli
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationCommunications and IP
Feras Mousilli is a founding partner of Lloyd & Mousilli and regularly advises business clients on a range of technology law issues. He specializes in counseling technology companies from start-ups in their early formation and development, through support of multi-billion dollar business operations of the largest companies in the world.
Mr. Mousilli has served as Senior Corporate Counsel for both Apple Inc. and Dell Inc., where he counseled clients on product development and intellectual property matters, including advertising & marketing, copyright, and trademark strategies and risks. Prior to serving as corporate counsel, Mr. Mousilli practiced with DLA Piper in the intellectual...
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Vaughan de Kirby
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 43 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Vaughan has been serving clients internationally for over 35 years. He began his practice in California in 1981 with a clear vision of ensuring that his clients have the critical information they need to make the best decisions for themselves and their families.
As the son of an immigrant, Vaughan understands firsthand the importance of the decisions his clients are making when they choose to pursue EB-5 for themselves and their families. He knows that it is much more than an investment decision – it shapes the future for his clients' families, including generations to come.
Vaughan is a 1981 Cum Laude...
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Brandon Shelton
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness and Entertainment & Sports
University of California, Davis, School of Law
Brandon is a business and startup attorney, focusing on assisting new and emerging businesses in all of their transactional matters. He has represented clients from a wide array of industries, including tech and app developers, filmmakers, breweries, wineries and restaurants, real estate companies, and even chocolate makers. He has counseled clients on corporate formation, late stage preferred financing rounds, mergers & acquisitions, and everything in between. He also serves as outside-inside counsel, providing general counseling on all day-to-day matters, including licensing, brand management, and employee stock incentive plans. Brandon was formerly a computer programmer in the U.S. Air Force, and...
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Vivek H. Vaidya
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP and Trademarks
University of San Francisco School of Law
I provide legal counsel surrounding Intellectual Property, Brand Protection and Creative Content, including the life-cycle of Trademarks and Copyrights, from registration and licensing to enforcement.
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Gregory J. Brod
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationConsumer and Products Liability
University of Houston Law Center
Gregory J. Brod is a founding member of Brod Law Firm. Mr. Brod received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, and his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, Texas. Greg Brod has been a member of the California State Bar in good standing since becoming admitted to the Bar in 1996, and he is admitted before the United States District Courts for the Northern District of California, the Eastern District of California, the Central District of California, and the United States District Court of Appeals for...
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Jon Welner
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 29 years of experience
(415) 432-6000
44 Montgomery Street
36th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Business and Environmental
Stanford University
Jon Welner is a leading practitioner of environmental law in California. His broad and deep experience over twenty years enables him to solve regulatory problems for clients in virtually every area of environmental practice, including air, water, hazardous materials, hazardous waste, consumer products, traditional and renewable energy, and natural resources. Jon helps clients make sense of the “alphabet soup” of state and federal environmental regulatory agencies in order to achieve their business objectives. He regularly represents clients in court to defend their interests and achieve their goals.
Jon has a robust land use practice and assists clients to successfully navigate the...
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Arkady Itkin
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Products Liability
University of the Pacific
Since 2007 our office has been dedicated to representing San Francisco and Sacramento area employees and victims of serious injuries in a wide range of employment, wrongful termination and injury cases. Individual approach to each client and each injury or employment case is what distinguishes us from other attorneys, as we recognize that each case is as different as each person who has been either injured or aggrieved by their employer.
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Stephen R. Jaffe
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 54 years of experience
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation and Employment
Wayne State University Law School
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Thomas Edward McKeever
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 30 years of experience
(415) 797-7250
1 Sansome Street, 35th Floor
PMB #2450,
San Francisco, CA 94104
Business
Stanford Law School
Solving business problems from a legal perspective for technology companies.
I have served as a trusted advisor to boards and C-suites in private and public companies for more than 15 years including more than 9 years at Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:BIRT) as its SVP, GC, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Development until the sale of Actuate to OpenText, Inc in 2015.
I have particular expertise with M&A, governance, managing litigation and operational process and policy improvement. A consistent strong performer, I was a securities litigator at Wilson Sonsini and Heller Ehrman and a law clerk at the Federal District Court for the...
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Colby LaVelle
San Francisco, CA Lawyer
(415) 596-6337
One Market Street
Spear Tower 36th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
Santa Clara University School of Law
Colby Dean LaVelle II proudly manages LaVelle Law Offices with the personal attention of a boutique law firm but with the resources of larger law firms. An honored graduate of Santa Clara University of Law, Mr. LaVelle has dedicated his career to the pursuit of justice. He began his legal career working for the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. Following his success litigating criminal matters, Mr. LaVelle started the LaVelle Law Offices. Now with eight locations across California, The LaVelle Law Offices is an incarnation of Mr. LaVelle's desire to serve the public, as he...
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Daniel H Rose
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Claims
UC Hastings COL
Mr. Rose is dedicated to providing the best legal representation for injured victims and their families in a compassionate, efficient and effective manner. He is a passionate advocate for his clients and resolves most cases in a matter of months, rather than years. He is most widely known as one of the leading bicycle lawyers, pedestrian lawyers, and motorcycle accident lawyers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Robin D. Gross
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Communications, Entertainment & Sports, IP and Trademarks
Santa Clara University School of Law
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Maxwell Charles Livingston
Albany, CA Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Entertainment & Sports and Environmental
Marquette University Law School and Marquette University Law School
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Erik J Christensen
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 7 years of experience
Appeals, Business and Employment
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and University of California - Irvine
Erik Christensen litigates, and provides counsel on, corporate and employment issues in California and the District of Columbia. His experience includes working as a senior associate at top-ranked global law firms, including Littler Mendelson and Greenberg Traurig.
Before this, Erik externed at the California Supreme Court and the First District Court of Appeal, two of the most prestigious opportunities provided to law students in California. Erik also served as a law clerk for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Victim Impact Program (sometimes referred to as the “Special Victims Unit.”) His experience includes years of service with the 101st Airborne’s...
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Heidi Machen
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationAdministrative and Employment
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Heidi Machen has been an attorney since 1996 when she graduated from University of California Hastings College of the Law and passed the California Bar Exam. Prior to hanging her shingle as a sole practitioner in 2008, representing clients in matters of employment and regulatory law, Ms. Machen served in various policy and executive positions in local and Bay Area government.
Among her extracurricular activities, she is an avid cyclist, a Vegan cook, an amateur oil painter, has been known to contribute to theatrical productions on or off stage, and to participate in Democratic party doings. She...
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Gene Takagi
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 23 years of experience
Gene Takagi is the managing attorney of NEO Law Group, contributing publisher of the Nonprofit Law Blog, and a part-time lecturer at Columbia University. At NEO, Gene has represented over 800 nonprofit organizations on corporate, tax, and charitable trust law matters. Gene is a popular writer on nonprofit legal topics and has been published by The New York Times, The Nonprofit Quarterly, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Nonprofit Times, Taxation of Exempts, EO Tax Journal, and ALI-ABA. He is also a popular speaker who has presented at conferences for Independent Sector, BoardSource, NAAG/National Association of State Charity Officials, CalNonprofits, the...
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Robert W. Ottinger Jr.
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 33 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Ottinger Employment Lawyers specializes in protecting the rights of employees and fighting injustice in the workplace. For over a decade we have represented current and former employees in their pursuit of fair treatment and compensation. We challenge illegal labor practices in companies of all sizes. We help employees benefit from the rights guaranteed to them under state and federal law.
Our firm handles all aspects of employment law including:
Overtime Pay Recovery
Employment Discrimination
Retaliation
Sexual Harassment
Severance Package Negotiation
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Lucy Stearns McAllister
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 37 years of experience
Administrative
Santa Clara University
The Law Offices of Lucy S. McAllister is a California-based administrative law, licensing law and criminal law practice providing legal services for clients in California. Attorney McAllister has successfully won over 250 Superior Court trials as a Defense Attorney.With 30+ years experience as a civil and criminal attorney.
She specializes in the following areas of law:
Licensing Law :
Pre-hearing resolution of licensing issues, Administrative Hearings, Administrative Appeals, License Applications, Legal Advice, Handling License Criminal Disclosures (Applications, Renewals, Reinstatements), criminal record expungement.
Criminal Law:
Restraining orders, DUI charges and convictions, Domestic Violence, Sex Charges, Strikes Charges, Assault and Battery, Theft and Fraud,...
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Antone F. Johnson
Berkeley, CA Attorney with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Communications, Entertainment & Sports and Securities
Columbia Law School
For 24 years, Antone Johnson has served as lawyer, advisor, executive and advocate for emerging growth technology/digital media ventures, founders and investors in a diverse range of business and intellectual property matters. Raised in Menlo Park and Palo Alto, California, suffused with Silicon Valley's unique culture of innovation, he came of age professionally during the Internet explosion of the late 1990s, an entrepreneurial crucible of unprecedented wealth and job creation, reinvention of countless industries, and related venture capital and Wall Street dealmaking. Antone was fortunate to have a ringside seat at major Los Angeles and Silicon Valley law firms, followed...
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Alan William Sparer
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 42 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Real Estate and Securities
Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For over 30 years, Mr. Sparer has successfully represented individuals and businesses in litigation involving securities, contract, insurance, real estate, probate, and trust matters. Sparer Law Group (SLG), Mr. Sparer has obtained over $200 million in settlements, judgments, and recoveries on behalf of securities investors. Mr. Sparer also leads an SLG team that has successfully defended financial professionals and investment funds under investigation by the SEC, FINRA, and the California Department of Business Oversight.
SLG regularly helps resolve sensitive and confidential family disputes involving claims of elder abuse or financial misconduct. In the process, Mr. Sparer has successfully...
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Ernest Christopher Brown
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 47 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Environmental and Real Estate
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
Ernest C. Brown, ESQ, PE is highly experienced in construction contracts, negotiation, claims preparation, construction litigation, mechanic’s liens, bid protests, public works law and insurance coverage. He has resolved more than 2,500 construction disputes, including complex mediations, arbitrations, litigation, court trials, jury trials, DRB's and other innovative ADR approaches. He is a graduate of MIT in Civil and Environmental Engineering and earned a MS Construction Management and JD from the University of California, Berkeley. He also did graduate coursework at Harvard Law School in International Law. He is a senior construction lawyer and licensed civil engineer. Mr. Brown has...
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Paul DeAngelis
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness and Real Estate
Boston University
Paul DeAngelis practices in the San Francisco Bay Area. He concentrates on real estate matters, including litigating buyer and seller disputes arising from transactions, neighbor and HOA disputes, and broker defense issues. He also provides transaction and counseling services to buyers and sellers, to property owners to resolve neighbor and HOA disputes, and to brokers and agents regarding risk management and BRE compliance issues. The information in this profile and any reviews or endorsements do not constitute a guarantee, warranty or prediction regarding the outcome of any legal representation. It is a communication within Rules of Professional Conduct of...
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Steven Aaron Kronenberg
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Consumer, Employment and Products Liability
Temple Univ School of Law
Mr. Kronenberg's practice focuses on: - Catastrophic Injury: including representing people who consumed food allergens or pathogens, as well as workers who used defectively designed or manufactured food processing equipment, victims of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord trauma, nerve damage, and severe orthopedic injuries arising from construction accidents, industrial accidents, dangerous premises, auto accidents, wrongful death, governmental or public entity liability, and professional negligence. Mr. Kronenberg has more than a decade of experience litigating personal injury and product liability cases from their inception through trial and appeal. - Consumer Protection: litigating class action claims arising from...
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Bennett G. Young
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 43 years of experience
Bankruptcy and Business
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
I am an accomplished California Bankruptcy and Business law attorney. My areas of expertise include a broad range of insolvency matters for creditors.
I provide extensive experience and knowledge, focused on maximizing benefits and minimizing losses. With a long history of successful results, I am dedicated to innovative and practical solutions for your bankruptcy and insolvency problems.
I have been honored with recognition as a Northern California Super Lawyer, Best Lawyers of America, and an AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
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Alan Adelman
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 30 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
For over twenty years I have focused my entire legal practice on exclusively representing employees in a wide variety of employment matters, including wrongful terminations, unpaid wages, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, defamation and severance negotiations. I handle all lawsuits on a contingency fee basis, meaning that I do not charge a fee in a litigation if I do not secure a recovery on behalf of my client. I have advocated on behalf of several hundred employees in State and Federal Court and have completed nearly twenty trials.
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Christopher D. N. Hanson
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Insurance Claims and Real Estate
John F. Kennedy University College of Law
Who am I? Why do I do this? What are you getting when you hire me and my staff? Am I any good at this lawyer stuff? Will I win? Those are all good questions; and I even have answers for some of them.
I started the firm in the mid 1990’s after the Savings and Loan implosion killed commercial real estate for about five years.
In 1978, I got my California real estate license, and two years later, my broker’s license. In 1993, I was awarded the nationally recognized CCIM designation by the Commercial Investment...
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John Michael Runfola
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals
San Francisco State University and University of San Francisco School of Law
John Runfola is a highly experienced and effective criminal defense attorney. His cases have at times drawn international attention, and he has succeeded in winning favorable results for clients both at trial and through skillful pre-trial work. He is listed in Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and has earned the highest rating from the national lawyer registry Martindale Hubbell.
Prior to starting his own practice, Mr. Runfola served as a Public Defender in San Francisco, where he gained invaluable courtroom experience. He is a seasoned trial lawyer, yet is equally adept at the behind-the-scenes work that often proves critical to a...
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Michael Mortimer
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 31 years of experience
P.O. Box 2342
San Francisco, CA 94126
IP
Univ of Oregon School of Law
Former prosecutor, combat veteran (USCG), complex dispute resolution, competitive business litigation, depositions, trials, law and motion, appeals.
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Bryan Kemnitzer
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 50 years of experience
Free ConsultationConsumer
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Bryan Kemnitzer is a partner at Kemnitzer, Barron, and Krieg, LLP. He received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1972 and a J.D. from McGeorge School of Law (University of the Pacific) in 1975. Bryan was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1975. He has been a civil litigator for more than 30 years and has tried numerous jury cases to judgment. He has served as an arbitrator, and as a Judge-Pro-Tem.
For more than 30 years, his practice has been focused on representing consumers, with an emphasis on the auto industry. Bryan has been involved not only in...
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L. Randolph Harris
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 46 years of experience
Business and Tax
Georgetown University Law Center and Gonzaga University School of Law
L. Randolph Harris is a partner in JMBM's San Francisco office who works with a broad array of privately held companies and their owners on business and tax matters. Randy advises clients with regard to business transition, taxable and tax deferred mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, integrated tax planning, federal and state tax controversy resolution, and real estate transactions. Randy's experience includes counseling mature companies on operations, business transactions and mergers and acquisitions and counseling emerging and growth companies on business organization, financing and operations. He advises on income tax planning for individuals, partnerships and corporations and also advises...
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John T. Kontrabecki
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 47 years of experience
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation and Real Estate
Cornell University
As an attorney and financier with over three decades of experience, I have been advising companies on various aspects of real estate transactions. My work includes forming legal entities, establishing joint ventures, handling property acquisitions and sales, conducting due diligence, managing land use planning and entitlements, ensuring environmental compliance, and dealing with both secured and unsecured financing. Additionally, I am well-versed in construction contracts, litigation, and arbitration.
I am transaction-oriented and have significant experience in handling a broad spectrum of commercial contracts. My skills include reviewing, drafting, and negotiating joint venture agreements, development agreements, construction contracts, public utility agreements, vendor agreements,...
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Kerry Shapiro
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 37 years of experience
Administrative, Business and Environmental
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
I am an accomplished California attorney, representing clients with Government, Environmental, Natural Resources and Land Use matters.
I have over 30 years of experience with a broad array of federal, state and local issues. I bring knowledgeable and skilled advocacy to effectively and efficiently meet your legal needs.
A recipient of CalCIMA's Spirit of the Industry Award, I am also listed among The Best Lawyers in America and Northern California Super Lawyers.
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Matthew S. Kenefick
San Francisco, CA Lawyer
Business and Real Estate
Santa Clara University School of Law
Matthew Kenefick has an extensive law practice which includes litigation, real estate and compliance matters. Mr. Kenefick represents a variety of industries including manufacturers, financial institutions, retailers, real estate developers, wineries and the hotel industry, among others.
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Robert B. Kaplan
San Francisco, CA Lawyer
Bankruptcy, Business and Real Estate
Golden Gate University School of Law
Robert B. Kaplan is an accomplished California Bankruptcy, Business, and Real Estate Law attorney with an emphasis on creditors' rights and bankruptcy related cases. Focused on results, Bob has been providing rigorous and uncompromising legal representation for over 40 years.
Bob is a Co-Managing Partner at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, a firm listed on American Lawyer's AmLaw 200. A highly skilled and knowledgeable attorney, he is ready to assist you in accomplishing your legal objectives.
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Taylor N. Burras
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 13 years of experience
Business and Employment
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Taylor Burras is a Labor and Employment attorney. Her practice focuses on the hospitality and insurance industries.
Taylor has experience counseling and litigating on behalf of employers in matters relating to discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination, reduction in workforce, hiring, leaves of absence, and wage and hour issues. She has also handled matters before the Employment Development Department (EDD), Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and the National Labor Relations Board. Taylor has successfully represented hotels, resorts and restaurants in numerous general and employment litigation matters. In the insurance industry, she has defended large insurance companies...
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Ronak N Ray
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 14 years of experience
(415) 496-9804
50 California Street
Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94111
Free ConsultationBusiness
DePaul College of Law and DePaul College of Law
As an experienced General Counsel with two stints at late-stage growth companies, Ronak Ray leads all legal matters for maturing businesses. He supported TaskUs’ board as corporate secretary and 18,000 people globally while managing to close a $500 million transaction with Blackstone before joining another scaling technology company at Pantheon as their General Counsel. Most recently, Ronak was appointed as Executive Managing Director of modCounsel to support growth companies for concierge in-house legal services from early stage to publicly listed businesses.
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Stacey Poole
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation
Golden Gate University School of Law and Golden Gate University School of Law
I am an accomplished Divorce, Family, and Arbitration & Mediation attorney. I compassionately represent clients throughout the Bay Area with a broad range of family law matters.
As a Certified Family Law Specialist, I provide the experience, knowledge and skill needed to advocate for the best possible outcomes. I am dedicated to exceptional counsel to meet your family's legal needs and goals.
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Martin H. Orlick
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 47 years of experience
Business and Real Estate
University of San Francisco School of Law
I am an accomplished ADA Compliance & Defense attorney. With a practice encompassing over 30 years, I am dedicated to providing exceptional service and legal representation. I am a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and on the Advisory Board of Directors of the Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute, Georgetown University Law Center. I also serve as Chair of JMBM's ADA Compliance & Defense Group and am the author of the ADA Compliance & Defense Blog.
My transactional practice includes leasing, lease administration for developers and tenants, acquisition and sales, portfolio management, regulation of real property use and development,...