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David J. O'Connell
Escondido, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 36 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate and Business
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Mr. O'Connell leads a small firm of professionals specializing in real estate issues, business, corporations, limited liability companies, estates, and trust administration. He has more than 30 years of experience in these areas and is fully equipped to advise clients regarding their options and risks in these troubling economic times.
Mr. O'Connell speaks frequently at continuing education seminars on topic including the emerging issues in limited liability companies and legal ethics.
Mr. O'Connell served in the U.S. Army Security Agency from 1968 to 1972, serving in Turkey and Germany.
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Joseph M. Wojcik
Temecula, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Real Estate and Employment
Western State University College of Law
Joe Wojcik is a partner in Davis & Wojcik, APLC. Mr. Wojcik has over 25 years of litigation experience in state, federal and bankruptcy courts, and represents prominent corporate clients and executives in prosecuting and defending complex business litigation and transactional matters throughout Riverside County. He represents health care providers, real estate developers, and agricultural companies in a wide range of matters, including commercial, employment, real estate, and compliance claims. He also represents over 2,000 clients in preparing their wills, trusts, power of attorneys, and other matters for their estate planning needs.
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Gary Giesler
Vista, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 55 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Administrative, Business and White Collar Crime
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Gould School University of Southern California. American Jurisprudence Award. Captain US Army Bronze Star Vietnam. Asst. US Attorney Central District California. Senior Partner Knapp Marsh Jones & Doran; Morse Giesler & Callister. Expertise in Home Owner Association cases and dispute resolution matters, real estate matters, litigation, and business law.
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Michael A. Friedrichs
Escondido, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
970 Canterbury Place
Escondido, CA 92025
Real Estate and Business
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Michael Friedrichs is a partner at White and Bright, LLP, and focuses his practice on real estate and business litigation matters. Mr. Friedrichs has experience in defending real estate brokers and sellers in claims of non-disclosure in the sale of real property, and representing contractors and homeowners in construction related issues including claims involving mechanic’s liens. Mr. Friedrichs also has extensive experience in representing creditors in commercial debt collection, representing and defending parties in disputes over ownership and encumbrances to real property (quiet title), enforcing and defending easements and boundary issues, representing parties in landlord/tenant matters, representing business...
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Assly Sayyar
Vista, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
Real Estate and Business
UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law
Assly Sayyar is an attorney practicing with Assly Sayyar, Attorney at Law, Inc. which maintains offices in Las Vegas, Nevada and San Diego County, California. She is a skilled and diligent attorney who has been practicing as a trial attorney since 2004. Originally born in England, Assly’s family immigrated to the U.S. when she was a child. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Rhetoric from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2000. Assly moved to Las Vegas where she attended the William S. Boyd School of Law. After graduating from law school Cum Laude in 2004, Assly...
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Stephen Lee Anderson
Temecula, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and IP
Georgetown Univ Law Ctr
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Nathan Aaron Perea
Temecula, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Employment and Insurance Claims
Lewis & Clark Law School
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Joann Frances Lockard
Escondido, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Real Estate
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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Morton Joel Grabel
Temecula, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 36 years of experience
(951) 695-7700
29377 Rancho California Rd. Suite 103
Temecula, CA 92591
Real Estate, Arbitration & Mediation, Bankruptcy and Business
California Western School of Law
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Matthew Corin Bradford
Temecula, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 26 years of experience
Real Estate
University of Illinois College of Law
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John A. Messina Jr.
Murrieta, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 30 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and Employment
Southwestern University School of Law
John Messina maintains his reputation as one of Southern California’s top rated lawyers and has been lauded by his peers, earning Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating and its prestigious "Preeminent" distinction award. John heads the Firm’s Temecula Valley Office and is a litigation attorney with top executive-level, hands-on experience as a broker, real estate developer, and mortgage banker. Along with being a published author, John has a lengthy record litigating convoluted and difficult cases and is adept at constructing complex business and real estate transactions. John’s recent victory in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals demonstrate the level at which he practices...
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Dale S. Gribow
Palm Desert, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 54 years of experience
Real Estate
Loyola Law School
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Dale Gribow is a “Boutique Concierge” CV PI/DUI firm with 25+ TOP LAWYER awards, 4 Dale Gribow Days, 9 Man of the Year (The City of Palm Desert, The City of Hope and The California Senate etc) and awarded Mr. Charity. The caseload is limited, allowing calls to be answered and returned the “Old Fashioned” way…by Dale, not an assistant.
Dale promises, “Whether or not I accept your case if you take the time to call, I will personally take the time to direct you.”
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Daniel Wade Watkins
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 37 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Business and Insurance Claims
University of San Diego School of Law
Daniel W. Watkins is an experienced litigator and true trial attorney with over 50 Jury and Bench trials to his credit in 30 years of practice. He has successfully represented both large companies and individuals, and achieved substantial victories in well-publicized trials throughout California and Wisconsin.
Mr. Watkins has successfully tried and litigated cases in the areas of Healthcare Compliance, Commercial Litigation, Unfair Business Practices, Fraud, Breach of Contract, Battery, Premises Liability, Product Defect, Medical Malpractice, Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Construction Defect, as well as Unfair Competition, Defamation, and Trade Secret. In December 2003, Mr. Watkins commenced litigation against Health South Surgery...
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Thomas D. Mauriello
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 36 years of experience
Real Estate, Appeals, Consumer and Environmental
University of San Diego School of Law
Thomas Mauriello assists clients with an array of legal matters, including Business, Consumer, Investment, Government, Real Estate, Stock Broker, Investment and Environmental Law disputes. With over 30 years of experience, Mr. Mauriello is committed to delivering quality legal solutions with efficient and personalized representation throughout the State of California.
Mr. Mauriello is dedicated to involvement in his community. This has included coaching youth basketball and volleyball, as well as working with both Volunteers in Parole and the San Diego AIDS Project. Additionally, he has served on the Legal Committee of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club for many years.
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Thomas A. Grossman
Palm Springs, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 47 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate and Business
Pepperdine University School of Law and Southwestern University School of Law
Born in Wisconsin, raised in L.A., moved to the Desert in 1977. 39 year experience in civil litigation, contract law, real estate (licensed broker), personal injury, alternative dispute resolution (Mediations and Arbitrations) and more. Active hiker, swimmer and singer.
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Nicholas E. Goldberg
Cardiff, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Real Estate and Business
Emory University School of Law
Founded High Tide Legal Group, PC in 2020 to bring my unique blend of over 15 years of legal, business and entrepreneurial experience to clients throughout California. Offering legal services for all business transactional matters ranging from real estate matters, corporate formations, complex commercial transactions, EPC drafting and negotiation, and alternative energy and industry support and more.
From 2017 until 2020, I served as COO/Partner for GWC and GWL, a consulting company and law firm respectively, servicing clients throughout the State of California. From 2011 until 2017, I served as VP & Senior Legal Counsel of AP Wireless leading...
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Ruth Ryan-Cruz
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer
(619) 528-2202
3111 Camino Del Rio North, Suite 400
San Diego, CA 92108
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Business, IP and Trademarks
California Western School of Law
Ruth Ryan-Cruz is an attorney in San Diego, California with Ryan-Cruz Law, APC. Attorney Ruth Ryan-Cruz practices in the areas of business and corporate law, intellectual property, estate planning, wills, trusts, copyrights, trademarks and more. Contact San Diego Attorney Ruth Ryan-Cruz for a consultation. Ruth is a fluent Spanish-speaking attorney providing counseling and transactional services in Spanish in the areas listed above. Ruth earned her Juris Doctor Degree from California Western School of Law and received a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in High Tech Management from California State...
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Jarod M. Bona
La Jolla, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Appeals and Business
Harvard Law School
Jarod Bona's practice is focused on antitrust, business litigation, appellate, real estate, and challenges to government conduct. He practiced at DLA Piper and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for a dozen years before starting his own firm. He also clerked for Judge James B. Loken of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit. Mr. Bona won a bench trial, as first chair, for a client involving fraud claims and up to US$2.5 million at stake. In 2012, Mr. Bona played a major role in achieving summary judgment and a Federal Trade Commission dismissal with no action for his...
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Mitchell Reed Sussman
Palm Springs, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 47 years of experience
Real Estate
Pepperdine Univ School of Law
MITCHELL REED SUSSMAN, is the leading consumer advocate of Timeshare Exit, Timeshare Cancellation and Timeshare litigation in the United States having successfully prosecuted actions against the world's largest timeshare companies. His office has gained the release of tens of thousands of timeshare owners from the burdens of timeshare ownership. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York in 1973 he graduated from George Washington University with a Bachelor of Business Administration. He came to the west coast upon graduation from GW and in 1976 he graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate. ...
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Richard Lutringer
Palm Springs, CA Real Estate Law Attorney
(760) 459-4123
777 East Tahquitz Canyon Wy.
Suite 200
Palm Springs, CA 92260
Free ConsultationReal Estate and Arbitration & Mediation
Cornell University
Full time mediator with offices in New York City and Southern California.
Palm Springs Office concentrates primarily on divorce, custodial arrangements and disputes related to real estate and probate, as well as family-owned business and vacation homes. New York City Office concentrates on corporate, commercial and finance matters
Extensive training in alternative dispute resolution techniques, including at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in London (CEDR), the American Arbitration Association.
(AAA),and the International Mediation Institute (IMI)., Among other panels, he mediates disputes as a member of the mediation panels of CPR,...
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Marco Antonio Torres
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate and Bankruptcy
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
I have represented thousands of clients throughout the state of California. I am a member of the San Diego County Bar Association and a proud veteran of the United States Army, Reserves and the California Army National Guard.
In 1996 I graduated from the University of California with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy, and in 1999 I received my juris doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of Law.
Early in my legal career I worked for large multi-national companies, including PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and North American Exchange Company, a division of Lennar Homes. I have been a solo-practitioner for...
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Bruce David Abel
Palm Desrt, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 42 years of experience
Real Estate, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Employment
Southwestern Law School
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Paul J Molinaro M.D., J.D.
Corona, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Bankruptcy, Consumer and Products Liability
Chapman University Fowler School of Law
The law firm of Fransen & Molinaro, LLP is located in Corona, California but serves the entire State of California. Whether it’s a plaintiff or defense matter, we pride ourselves on representing California’s individuals and small business in matters involving the following:
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Single family residential homes to large commercial buildings, purchases, leases, options, easements, boundary lines, buyer-seller disputes, agent/broker disputes, failures to disclose, contract disputes, agent/broker defense against the California Department of Real Estate, and More
Catastrophic Personal Injury
Spinal Cord Trauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, Paralysis, Amputation, Loss of Sight or Hearing
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles
Serious Medical Malpractice
Birth Trauma, Failure to Timely...
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Omar G. Nassar
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 13 years of experience
Real Estate and Business
California Western School of Law
Omar G. Nassar was born and raised in Southern California, and is a California licensed attorney and real estate broker. His practice focuses on helping real estate and business owners with all of their real estate and business needs.
Throughout Mr. Nassar’s career he has been extensively engaged in the real estate industry and has been actively involved in hundreds of real estate transactions. He began working in a real estate office while attending University of California, San Diego and since that time Mr. Nassar has practiced as a real estate agent, broker, and as an attorney. In addition...
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Adina T. Stern
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 41 years of experience
Real Estate, Appeals and Business
Southwestern Law School
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Dolores Contreras
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Bankruptcy and Business
California Western School of Law
Dolores Contreras is a decorated San Diego business lawyer with multiple awards and nominations under her belt, including the National Business Woman Association Entrepreneur of the Year Award and finalist for San Diego Magaizine's Woman of the Year. Her accomplishments and dedication to every client has lead to a successful career representing clients in business litigation, real estate law and family law. Ms. Contreras is fluent in both English and Spanish and her expertise in cross-border litigation has made her a strong voice in the Spanish speaking community.
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Renie Leakakos
Carlsbad, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 36 years of experience
Real Estate and Business
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
As a fellow entrepreneur, Renie has the knowledge, understanding and passion required to help and care for the various needs an entrepreneur faces on a daily basis. Throughout her career, she has focused on assisting the small business owner, working with individual entrepreneurs, small businesses, and middle market companies in various industries. Her litigation background gives her an edge as she can draft agreements and negotiate transactions for you with dispute avoidance in mind. Renie Leakakos, Esq. is a detail oriented and entrepreneurial leader who has worked in various business settings as an attorney, manager, sales and marketing professional. Originally...
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Marc Homme
Palm desert, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 50 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and Employment
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Represented both major and small contractors and subcontractors throughout Southern California for over 40 years. Phi Beta Kappa and Judge Pro Tem.
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Joseph Franklin Klatt
La Jolla, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Real Estate, Appeals and Business
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Joseph F. Klatt is a veteran California litigator with demonstrated expertise representing individual and institutional clients in complex civil litigation matters. He is skilled in handling all facets of litigation, including initiating and planning a case, managing discovery, drafting dispositive motions and briefs, conducting depositions, trying and resolving cases, handling complex writs and appeals, and negotiating significant settlements in high stakes cases. He is recognized for handling complex, unique, and troublesome cases, providing innovative litigation strategies, looking at legal issues from multiple and unorthodox angles, and cost-effectively achieving his clients’ objectives.
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William Roger Simon Jr
Rancho Santa Fe, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 36 years of experience
(858) 771-0081
PO Box 5005 PMB#107
6105 Paseo Delicias, Suite 7
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
Real Estate and Business
Western State College of Law at Argosy University
Bill helps business owners achieve financial freedom through legal strategies that maximize and protect their assets. As Chief Counsel at Sollertis, Bill works with his clients in the preparation of a Master Asset Protection Plan™ and, once created, manages a team of strategically selected Private Practice Attorneys who work with him to implement the plan and ultimately, to help his clients protect their assets and obtain financial freedom. Bill brings a business perspective to everything he does. As co-founder and managing partner of San Diego Law Firm, he guided the firm in its ascent...
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Michael Dennis Iverson
Murrieta, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 17 years of experience
Real Estate, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Consumer
California Southern Law School
As the founder of the Law Offices of Michael D. Iverson, APC, Attorney Michael D. Iverson provides knowledgeable and compassionate representation to his clients in family law, estate planning, and business and civil litigation matters. He has been named a 10 Best Attorney: Client Satisfaction by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys™ in 2017 and 2018. Before entering law school, Mr. Iverson amassed extensive experience in varied fields. He worked as a dental technician, earned a paralegal certificate, climbed the ladder as a paralegal at a large personal injury firm in Salt Lake City, and obtained a real estate...
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Antonio Maldonado
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and International
American University and Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Licensed to practice law in all jurisdictions in Mexico and in the United States in the states of California and New York, Mr. Maldonado is an attorney who focuses his practice on US-Mexico crossborder litigation. He practices law through the law firm of Maldonado Myers LLP, which consists of a team of US and Mexico-licensed attorneys with offices in San Diego, California in the United States and in Mexico in Tijuana, Baja California.
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Bruce Rea Durkee
Palm Desert, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 21 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and Tax
Whittier Coll School of Law
Bruce R. Durkee is licensed both as an attorney and as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Bruce is also a Certified Legal Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. ?Bruce graduated magna cum laude with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Whittier Law School -- finishing in the top 10% of his class. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Accounting from Vanguard University of Southern California, graduating cum laude. Prior to becoming an attorney, Bruce owned a CPA firm...
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Luiey Ghaleb Haddad
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate and Business
Indiana Univ Bloomington School of Law and California Western School of Law
Luiey G. Haddad is an aggressive trial attorney with over a decade of experience in real estate law and civil litigation. Mr. Haddad has represented individuals and businesses of all sizes with real estate transactions, commercial and residential lease negotiations, landlord-tenant dispute, corporate formation, contract disputes, and a wide array of real estate and business-related litigation. Mr. Haddad has successfully represented numerous high-profile clients in state and federal courts, including government officials and large national corporations.
Mr. Haddad received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management and Communications from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned his Juris Doctor from...
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Sasan Mirkarimi
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate and Business
California Western School of Law
Sasan Mirkarimi is a real estate litigator and transactional attorney, specializing in commercial and residential real estate. Mr. Mirkarimi has significant experience handling business and real estate transactions, commercial and residential lease negotiations, business formation, and business contract disputes across a broad spectrum of industries. Mr. Mirkarimi has also represented numerous healthcare related businesses with real estate and business acquisitions, contract negotiations and compliance, and currently serves as in-house counsel for a San Diego based Skilled Nursing Facility Hospitalist Group. Before entering into private practice and co-founding Equity Legal, Mr. Mirkarimi was an associate at law firms where he represented...
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Stuart Mellman
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Attorney
Free ConsultationReal Estate and Consumer
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Mr. Mellman provides clients with a full range of legal services including estate planning, estate litigation, family law, divorce, child custody, child support, spousal support, civil litigation, business transactions, business law, intellectual property, real property, and asset protection. Mr. Mellman received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Central Florida and obtained his Juris Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where he graduated in the top four percent of his class with honors of Magna Cum Laude. While in law school, Mr. Mellman served as the Managing-Editor of the Thomas Jefferson Law Review...
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Thomas Charles Frost
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 28 years of experience
Real Estate and Business
USC Law School
Mr. Frost is the founder and managing partner of our Firm. For over 17 years, Mr. Frost has focused his practice on litigation, primarily in the areas of complex business, corporate and securities law. He has represented a broad range of clients, including publicly traded companies, manufacturing firms, retailers, real estate development companies, recording studios, captive and independent insurance agencies, hedge funds, mutual funds, registered representatives, and investors, in Federal and State Courts, arbitration forums, and administrative agencies across the country. Mr. Frost frequently and successfully represents investors and brokers in arbitrations before FINRA (formerly the NASD),...
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James Crofton Allen
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Attorney with 41 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate
Seattle University School of Law
Since 1983, James Allen has been fiercely advocating for his clients. In that time, he has tried over 75 major cases. With 30 years of experience, Attorney Allen has taken on cases involving businesses, government entities, and individuals. Previously, he was hired by a city to serve as a special prosecutor to help enforce criminal statutes. He has also defended an employment discrimination case against a county. Jim has represented plaintiffs in toxic substance cases, real estate matters, mobile home disputes, and various other matters. Over the years, he has obtained several multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements on behalf of...
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Morgan Cahill-Marsland
San Diego, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate and Business
California Western School of Law
I am a solo practice attorney in San Diego with a focus in Business and Real Estate Law. I work with people looking to start a new business or change up and exisiting business. As well as home owners, developers, and tenants with real estate related issues.
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James A. Greer
Del Mar, CA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 38 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Arbitration & Mediation and Business
University of San Diego School of Law
Mr. Greer is expert in real estate and construction law for the past 35 years: whether involving consultation, dispute management, transactional matters, arbitrations, or trial, he has successfully served real estate and construction clientele (large and small) in all of their "phases" of need in California and Colorado. He is an extensivley experienced Attorney, a certified Arbitrator (i.e. private Judge), and a licensed General Contractor. Mr. Greer offers transactional work and consulting in real estate purchase/sale contracts, leases, and construction contracts; and he offers experienced guidance in any type of real estate matter from procurement thru development. ...