Steven S. Abern, Esq.

• Handled through a successful appeal a personal injury matter in which a disabled plaintiff sued under the ADA after she fell while stepping onto a curb from a disabled-parking space in which she had not parked.
• Mediated many ADA matters in which a disabled plaintiff alleged accessibility barriers in public accommodations.
• Mediated any ADA matter in which a sight-impaired plaintiff alleged accessibility barriers in a website.

• Successfully mediated a case in which many tenants in a facility for elderly and disabled tenants sued for bedbug and cockroach infestation.
• Successfully mediated tens of cases in which tenants sued under state and local laws for habitability, tenant harassment and constructive eviction claims.
• Successfully mediated tens of cases in which tenants sued for mold and pest and rat infestation.
• Successfully mediated many cases in which tenants sued because their dwelling units were not permitted.
• Handled more than 200 landlord-tenant cases in which tenants sued under state and local laws for habitability, tenant harassment and constructive eviction claims.

• Handled a wrongful eviction claim in which plaintiff and her boyfriend were evicted during the eviction moratorium after her boyfriend assaulted another tenant in the building with a pickaxe.
• Handled many cases in which tenants were displaced by fires which, in some cases were due to the fault of the landlord and, in other cases were not due to the fault of the landlord.
• Handled a mobile home park case involving the interpretation and application of Civil Code §798.37.5.
• Handled tens of mold claims brought by tenants. Many were due to landlord-caused water intrusion and many others were due to tenant lifestyle.
• Handled tens of bedbug and cockroach cases.
• Handled a mold and constructive eviction claim brought by a tenant whose ex-boyfriend broke into her apartment and flooded it with over 700,000 gallons of water.
• Handled a case in which landlord was sued for failing to resolve a dispute between upstairs and downstairs tenants in a two-story duplex.
• Handled a habitability, tenant harassment and disabled access claim involving 96 tenants in a SRO. The case involved a court-appointed receiver, a Chapter 11 trustee, numerous bankruptcy creditors, numerous coverage attorneys and a public entity.

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• Handled many cases brought by HOA members against HOA Boards, officers and directors for alleged breaches of CC&Rs.
• Handled many cases brought by HOA members against HOA Boards, officers and directors to compel replacement of roofs, heating facilities and other building systems.

• Successfully mediated a case in which plaintiff claimed injury when a police vehicle rolled slowly into hers during a traffic stop.
• Handled a lead toxicity case brought on behalf of a minor who ate lead-containing dirt around the dripline of the rental house.
• Handled an alleged brain injury case in which plaintiff claimed to have fallen from a door leading to a missing land. The plaintiff presented with a profoundly altered affect. The case resolved after another neighbor testified that he had never seen the plaintiff display the affect that he had displayed in the litigation.
• Handled a wrongful death matter in which two estranged parents sued one another for their son’s suicide.
• Handled more than 200 personal injury, brain injury and wrongful death arising from vehicle accidents.

• Handled many personal injury cases arising from dog bits.
• Handled several personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from carbon monoxide exposure.
• Handled a hypoxia case in which a child was choked by misusing a swing.

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• Handled tens of cases involving landslide, earth movement and trespass by water.

• Handled several matters alleging sexual assaults upon minors by relatives of home day-care facilities.
• Handled a matter involving sexual assaults upon minors by the pastoral staff of a mega-church.
• Handled a matter alleging sexual assault upon a minor by a family friend.

• Handled several boating cases in which passengers and skiers were injured by negligent boaters.
• Handled a boating case in which a passenger suffered a degloving injury after the tow rope she was handling was sucked into the boat’s impeller.

• Handled many cases in which retailers were sued for selling knock-off designer clothes and accessories.
• Handled a trademark case in which a vintner was sued by a prominent purveyor of luxury goods due to the similarity of their trademarks.

• Handled many disputes involving antagonistic neighbors.
• Handled many disputes involving lot line adjustments.
• Handled many cases involving maintenance of easements and interference with easements.
• Handled many cases involving the creation of prescriptive easements.