Commercial litigation often involves breach of contract allegations. These lawsuits frequently arise in the context of purchase and sale agreements, real estate transactions, loans, leases, business deals, and construction development disputes. Our attorneys have handled literally thousands of breach of contract claims, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Our expertise in this area is unsurpassed.


Our Real Estate litigators represent buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants, as well as borrowers and lenders, in all variations of real estate disputes, which usually include issues of financing, foreclosure, joint venture, purchase or specific performance.


We have significant experience in representing both majority and minority owners of a variety of businesses, and are sensitive to the many difficult and frequently emotional issues involved. We are able to lend our expertise to buyout, receivership, business valuation and appraisal issues that frequently arise in these contexts.


The area of employment/labor practice involves numerous and ever-changing challenges. These challenges range from issues of civil rights to disabilities, defamation, hostile work environment, wrongful/retaliatory termination and discrimination in the work place. Our attorneys represent businesses and financial institutions and any accused officers in a manner which both mitigates damages and increases confidentiality and privacy.

We successfully defend all varieties of businesses and financial institutions against the full spectrum of wrongful termination actions, from fraud-in-inducement to implied contract and violation of public policy claims. We are frequently able to successfully dispose of these cases at the demurrer and summary judgment stages, thus avoiding the needless consumption of client resources.


Commercial litigation in business tort cases ranges from negligence, fraud, breach of warranty, breach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy, RICO, interference with contractual and prospective business relationships, discrimination, unfair business practices and both negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Our attorneys have substantial experience in these areas.


Our Appellate attorneys have developed expertise in both the federal and state appellate courts. In fact, we have successfully argued cases before the California Supreme Court. This expertise is critical to our clients, since a verdict at trial or upon summary judgment often represents only the commencement of legal adjudication of important legal rights.