Hon. Ramona G. See (Ret.)

• Settled breach of contract action involving apartment development in Florida.
• Settled a breach of license and distribution agreement action.
• Settled a breach of contract dispute involving products sold but not paid for.
• Settled a breach of contract and negligence action involving poor workmanship on products delivered and failure to pay cross claims.
• Handled breach of Settlement agreement for non-payment of amounts agreed to. Sought enforcement of settlement agreement terms.

• Handled suit against a security company and other subcontractors for injuries incurred during an assault at a construction site. Negligent hiring, training and control, duty to warn issues.
• Handled action involving injuries caused when a fight broke out during an automobile auction. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
• Handled radio frequency licensing between cities and a regional commission under a joint power agreement. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
• Tried breach of commercial lease for nonpayment. Court trial.
• Handled a breach of indemnification clause in contract between hotel and another company.
• Handled breach of laundry equipment agreement for failure to make monthly payments on a promissory note, failure to timely deliver equipment.
• Handled an action against a homeowner’s association for breach of contract, negligence, accounting, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion regarding HOA accounts and monies unaccounted for, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled action involving a law firm seeking to satisfy a judgment through proceeds from the sale of real property and/or assignment of rents.
• Handled an action involving fraud in the inducement to enter into a settlement agreement and whether all parties released all claims in the underlying action.
• Handled action involving negligence and breach of contact regarding the installation and maintenance of a security system at a commercial property. The action also involved a failure to pay for all goods and services provided.
• Handled action involving fraud and the breach of a contract for toys manufactured and delivered from China.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a vehicle purchase and sale agreement where monthly payments were not made.
• Handled action involving a nitrogen oxide emission reduction system at LAX and whether the work of subcontractors in the design, construction and installation of the system was negligent and breached the subject contracts. Claims for Bus & Prof. Code §17200, fraud, breach of implied and express warranties of fitness, and negligent misrepresentation also alleged.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for products manufactured and delivered.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for services provided.
• Handled a breach of contract and accounting action for failure to repay all amounts due under a short-term bridge loan and the two promissory notes.
• Handled a breach of contract for failure to pay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract, fraud, and unjust enrichment action for failure to pay for work, labor, service and materials provided for cabling work.
• Handled a breach of a paper products contract for failure to pay over $200,000 owed.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay what was owed.
• Handled a breach of contract action for closing the business without notice to creditors
• Handled a breach of a promissory note action for failure to repay $120,000.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action involving a failure to provide roper funeral and mortuary services.
• Handled an action involving breach of a computer hardware and software contract where multiple system crashes and loss of data occurred causing disruption to the business.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a loan agreement and promissory note by travel agency.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a written and oral distribution contract and a right to indemnity.
• Handled action involving computer software development and implementation and whether it was ever completed and worked to the client’s satisfaction. Claims included breach of contract, specific performance, conversion imposition of a constructive trust, negligence, fraud and injunctive relief.
• Handled an action involving contractual arbitration clause and delayed request after substantial discovery completed.
• Handled an action involving breach of contract, negligence, and fraud against a financial brokerage house.
• Handled an action involving breach of a vehicle sales agreement and writ of possession for failure to make monthly installment payments and failure to return the vehicle.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a settlement agreement for payment to entities not parties to the action.
• Handled an action involving reformation of an agreement, breach of contract, accounting, and rescission all barred by res judicata in a prior action.
• Handled an action involving monies paid to a third party but never received by Plaintiff with claims for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, constructive fraud, and unjust enrichment.
• Handled an action involving the attachment of a vehicle with a breach of contract claim for failing to pay on a leased vehicle.
• Handled an action involving breach of an electronics sales agreement.
• Handled an action involving breach of contract for non-payment for architectural drawings and professional negligence for drawing s which did not meet code requirements for a commercial property.
• Handled an action involving a breach of service contract between a hotel and janitorial supply company for failure to provide services.
• Handled an action involving a breach of loan agreement and fraud for failure to pay with claim that loan was not taken out by plaintiff.
• Tried an action involving an accounting of commission amounts owed on three different agreements with issues of overpayments.
• Handled an action involving breach of an employment contract for failure to pay all amounts due on work performed on the business’ computer software system.
• Handled action involving contract for interior design work that was not completed but paid for with claims for fraud, breach of contract, negligence.
• Handled an action involving the repossession of a BMW and for breach of lease for failure to make monthly lease payments on the vehicle.
• Tried a breach of promissory note action with additional claims for account stated and fraud for failure to repay.
• Tried an action involving a breach of contract for the manufacture and sale of leather products and a failure to pay for the goods after delivery. Claims also included fraud, misrepresentation, and breach of fiduciary duty. Jury trial.
• Handled breach of credit card agreement action.
• Handled an action involving the purchase and sale of goods with an account stated and open book account claims.
• Handled an action involving shareholder action against company and officers and directors for malfeasance, negligence, fraud.
• Tried a breach of contract involving a sports car – Lemon Law issues. (Court Trial).
• Handled an action involving the breach of a partnership agreement. Additional claims included fraud, accounting and declaratory relief.
• Tried an action involving a licensing agreement to manufacture and sell a type of patented fastener in the United States and abroad. (Court trial).
• Handled an action involving the sale of a pedigree dog with a breach of contract claim for breeding the dog too young, failing to obtain hip dysplasia and elbow x-rays before breeding the dog and changing the dog’s name.
• Handled business dispute regarding a breach of contract.
• Handled an action involving a breach of a personal loan agreement, promissory note and personal guaranty.
• Handled an action involving breach of contract and negligence in the handling of a margin account with insider trading issues involving a brokerage company.
• Handled a breach of contract action and untimely request to arbitrate.
• Handled a wage garnishment case.
• Handled an action involving a breach of brokerage contract and negligence in this mismanagement of a financial portfolio and valuation of stocks.
• Handled action involving fraud and breach of contract in inducing party to agree to extend obligations under the existing agreement for two years.
• Handled action to enforce the terms of a settlement agreement including the agreement to defend and indemnify.
• Handled action to confirm and correct certain miscalculations of damages in underlying arbitration.
• Handled an action seeking enforcement terms in a settlement agreement after party failed to turn over certain personal property items.
• Handled an action involving a writ to return a vehicle and breach of contract for failure to pay for a Toyota Camry.
• Handled an action involving a writ to return a vehicle and breach of contract for failure to pay for an Audi Q.
• Handled an action involving a writ to return a vehicle and breach of contract for failure to pay for a BMW.
• Handled an action involving a writ to return a vehicle and breach of contract for failure to pay for a Lexus.
• Handled an action involving a writ to return a vehicle and breach of contract for failure to pay for a Honda.
• Handled an action involving a writ to return a vehicle and breach of contract for failure to pay for a Cadillac Escalade.
• Handled an action involving a writ to return a vehicle and breach of contract for failure to pay for a Volkswagen.
• Handled an action involving a writ to return a vehicle and breach of contract for failure to pay for a Ford Ram truck.
• Handled an action involving breach of partnership agreement for failure to distribute monthly payments on proceeds from the delivery business.
• Handled an action involving the breach of contract for the purchase of a Maserati for failure to pay.
• Handled an action for breach of contract for a used car by failing to disclose prior accidents and major repairs.
• Handled an action involving a breach of a loan agreement, breach of promissory note and personal guaranty for non-payment.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a contract for Henna products manufactured and delivered but never paid for with unjust enrichment and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing claims.
• Handled an action for breach of contract for goods manufactured and delivered but not paid for completely.
• Handled an action for breach of a settlement agreement for failure to make all monthly payments on a student loan.
• Handled an action involving the owner of real property at the time of foreclosure sought surplus funds from the sale.
• Handled an action involving a creditor seeking surplus funds from the sale of real property, the sole assets of the debtor corporation.
• Handled an action involving surplus funds from the sale of sister’s home after she died and plaintiff was the sole heir.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a construction loan and personal guaranty by two principals and a continuing guaranty by other individuals and entities for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of a freight forwarder contract action for failure to pay balance due upon delivery.
• Handled a breach of a commercial loan agreement action for failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of a commercial loan agreement action with breach of personal guaranty for failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving architectural services with claim for negligent design.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the purchase of ultrasound medical equipment and failure to pay all amounts due with additional claims against an employee for fraud, trespass and conversion when he took the equipment and ran out of the door.
• Handled a breach of contract for failure to pay for services provided.
• Handled a breach of a settlement agreement for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay.
• Handled a collections action involving a breach of contract on a line of credit and failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of contract for insurance services provided but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle sales contract/loan for a Chevrolet Tahoe, but not paid.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $22,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $42,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $36,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $54,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $17,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $47,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $32,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $48,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $30,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $23,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $53,000.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay over $56,000.
• Handled an action for breach of contract and negligence in the repair of a BMW.
• Handled a breach of commercial security agreement action for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of a settlement agreement action for failure to pay over $48,000.
• Handled a breach of contract action between former husband and wife involving a debt incurred while married but left unpaid.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving development of original shoes and failure to pay.
• Handled breach of a credit card agreement action for failure to pay $12,500.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the use of master recordings in unauthorized films and television and not the manufacture and distribution of records and reproductions.
• Handled breach of credit card agreement action.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay against parents and breach of person guaranty.
• Handled a breach of a chassis term operating agreement for failure to pay. The matter involved a skeletal trailer frame upon which intermodal containers are conveyed by truck with breach of personal guaranty, account stated and open book account claims.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle sale agreement brought by a bank, refusal to return the custom ambulance with clams for claim and delivery and money due on contract.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a city’s “safe route to school” program where engineering design and planning work was performed but not paid for with claims for open account, monies due and owing. With additional claims that the CEO embezzled the money paid.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a hotel room and amenities not provided.
• Handled a breach of a settlement agreement for failure to pay all sums required.
• Handled a breach of a promissory note action for failure to repay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of a student loan for failure to repay all amounts owed.
• Handled a breach of a student loan for failure to repay all amounts owed.
• Handled a petition to determine the rights of claimants to interpleaded surplus funds after foreclosure sale.
• Handled a breach of a loan agreement for paying with several dishonored checks.
• Handled a breach of contract action for reconstructive plastic surgery for failure to pay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement and failure to repay $40,000.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle sales agreement involving a Mercedes Benz ML63 AMG and SLK55 for failure to pay amounts due and failure to return the cars.
• Handled a breach of vehicle sales agreement involving a Mercedes Benz and failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of vehicle sales agreement involving a Mercedes Benz sprinter cargo van and failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of loan agreement and person guaranty for failure to repay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of cash advance agreements action.
• Handled breach of loan agreement for failure to repay with claims for breach of guaranty, conversion, and claim and delivery.
• Handled breach of loan agreement for failure to repay.
• Handled a breach of contract action with city for failure to pay all amounts owed.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle sales agreement action of a Mercedes Benz E350 for failure to pay or return the vehicle.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving freight services at the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports and failure to pay over $250,000.
• Handled breach of vehicle purchase contract action for failure to disclose that Nissan Armada was used a s a prior rental car in violation of the Consumer legal Remedies Act, Automobile Sales Finance Act, and Credit Services Act, fraud and unfair competition.
• Tried a breach of written and oral agreement action involving a foot race over a bridge with agreement that plaintiff would receive a percentage of the race’s purse for promoting the event with additional claims for unjust enrichment, fraud, conversion, declaratory relief and accounting. COURT TRIAL
• Handled breach of contract action involving products shipped and stored in a warehouse and never paid for with additional claims for promissory estoppel, fraud and unfair competition.
• Handled breach of loan agreement for failure to repay.
• Handled breach of a credit card agreement for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of a line of credit and loan agreements and breach of personal guaranty for failure to repay.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving missed payments and breach of a commercial guaranty.
• Handled a breach of vehicle lease action for Mercedes S550V for failure to disclose prior damage and breach of express warranty.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action involving the management of financial portfolios.
• Handled conversion and negligent misrepresentation action involving the cashing of fraudulent checks.
• Handled an action seeking to compel arbitration based upon an arbitration clause in a collective bargaining agreement.
• Handled an action seeking to confirm an arbitration award stemming from a breach of contract with a golf course for maintenance services provided but not paid for.
• Handled an action against a former employee for starting a competing business and took plaintiff’s client lists without permission with claims or breach of contract and fraud.
• Handled a misappropriation of trade secrets action against a former employee who took confidential customer lists without permission with unlawful business practice, breach of fiduciary duty and injunctive relief claims.
• Tried a breach of fiduciary duty and breach of partnership agreement action involving partners who left the partnership to form a new venture taking intellectual property with them without the permission of the remaining partner with intentional interference with contractual relations and unjust enrichment claims. Jury trial.
• Handled an action involving the breakup of a medical practice partnership with accounting, appraisal of the practice and fraud claims.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a loan agreement for failure to repay with claims that an extension was completed with a forged signature, and elder abuse, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, and fraud claims.
• Handled an action involving a charging order seeking amounts owed by decedent on an underlying breach of contract judgment.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for linen services provided to an airline.
• Handled breach of a restaurant franchise agreement action for money paid but the sale was not completed and the defendant refused to return the down payment.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay what was owed.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle sales agreement for failure to pay all sums due.
• Handled a breach of contract, unjust enrichment, negligence, and fraud action involving an investment in a preschool business and a failure to provide shares in the business.
• Handled a breach of a credit card contract action for failure to repay over $34,000 owed.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving proceeds generated from a private league for kindergarten through eighth grade basketball games were never turned over to the league but were kept by the coach.
• Handled an unjust enrichment and breach of lease with option to purchase a Boeing 373-500 aircraft action involving a failure to disclose a lack of good title, cancellation of purchase and refusal to return the $100,000 deposit for the plane.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving an investment in a company that lost the money.
• Handled a breach of contract action for money invested to fund a business deal.
• Handled a petition for distribution of surplus funds after a foreclosure sale.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for over $60,000 in legal fees incurred in an underlying matter.
• Handled a breach of a loan with over $57,000 unpaid.
• Handled an accounting, constructive fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and involuntary dissolution of a charity action for defrauding donors.
• Handled a breach of contract and personal guaranty action for failure to pay over $35,000.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a failure to reimburse for expenses and pay the $100,000 contract price for winning automobile races to a race car driver.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action for failure to obtain an expungement of a tax debt with the IRS.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay over $640,000 for digital marketing services provided.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action for failure to pay for replacement of 60- liter bags and valves on dust collectors delivered and installed.
• Handled a breach of a loan agreement action for failure to repay any of the loan amounts and for breach of contract in the purchase of an interest in a motel.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the sales of tickets and vacation packages to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
• Handled a fraudulent transfer of assets action to avoid over $40,000 in financial obligations.
• Handled a breach of contract for the purchase of boat for failure to pay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving transportation services and a failure to pay for those services.
• Handled a breach of contract, accounting, and fraud action involving a $2,500,000 investment in a company managing an amusement park taken no interests in the company were provided.
• Handled a fraudulent transfer of assets action to avoid creditors owed money on a contract.
• Handled a breach of contract action to provide sodas which were not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract, negligence, retaliatory eviction and fraud action involving a boat purchase with berthing and live-aboard rights which were refused by a yacht club.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving social security checks sent to resident at plaintiff’s old address who failed to return the checks and cashed them instead.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the sale of a restaurant, the failure to obtain permits, and lock out after paid in full.
• Handled a breach of a promissory note, and unjust enrichment action for failure to repay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract, fraud and declaratory relief action involving the use of a company credit card for personal use without permission.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle sales contract action for failure to pay $73,000.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the design, manufacture and delivery of custom watchbands and failure to pay for the goods with additional claims for open book account and breach of personal guaranty.
• Handled a fraud and breach of contract action involving financial investments in new company to produce products and the investment money was lost.
• Tried a breach of contract action involving the design, manufacture and delivery of tables to a hotel in Hawaii for failure to pay and cross claim for untimely delivery. COURT TRIAL
• Handled breach of contract action for failure to pay legal fees.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for tax advice and tax return preparation services.
• Handled a breach of contract, fraud and misappropriation of trade secrets action where trademark applications were transferred to a corporation without consent.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for expert witness and attorney’s fees after trial.
• Handled breach of contract action involving the sale of a used vehicle and misrepresentation about the vehicle’s repair and accident history.
• Handled a trademark infringement and unfair competition action involving a hair importing business from Italy for wigs, weaves and extensions and a former employee’s use of a similar name for his own competing business after he left.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the purchase of a restaurant.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the lease of equipment and a failure to return or make rental payments.
• Handled a breach of contract involving the purchase of several hundred headphones and tablets which were paid for but not all were delivered.
• Handled a breach of lease and fraud action for several vehicles which were then subleased to individuals, but rental profits were never paid.
• Handled a breach of a settlement agreement for failure to pay all amounts due regarding underlying action for damages caused by water damage at a condominium complex.
• Handled a breach of contract action for money paid out but not reimbursed.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay homeowner association dues.
• Handled a breach of a settlement agreement action for failure to pay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving the supply of electronics and failure to pay over $24,000,000 due.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for legal fees incurred in underlying action.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for medical services.
• Handled a breach of a student loan action for failure to repay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle purchase agreement of a Jeep for violation of the CLRA/Lemon Law.
• Handled a breach of contract for manufacture and delivery of optical lenses for failure to pay for goods.
• Handled a breach of contract and infringement action against a nurse who took the nurse database of the company to use at a new competing company that provides temporary nursing staff.
• Handled a collections action for failure to pay for workers compensation premiums.
• Handled a breach of equipment lease and breach of personal guaranty action.
• Handled a breach of vehicle sale agreement action for failure to pay monthly installment payments and refusal to return the car, and cross claim for failure to disclose the vehicle was previously used as a rental car.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the unauthorized use of famous musicians’ avatar likenesses in video game singing other musician’s songs without permission.
• Handled a collection action of over $50,000 due and owing.
• Handled an action to satisfy several judgments against defendant through various partnership interests including the proceeds from the sale of one of those interests.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a retainer agreement and failure to pay for services rendered with additional claims for fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence.
• Handled a breach of oral contract action to assist in obtaining legal counsel to represent and file a wrongful termination action against employer, counsel hired, but never paid for finder’s fee.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving the distribution of plaintiff’s personal information to other vendors without his consent with additional claims for fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a breach of contract action against corporation and whether individuals were proper parties.
• Handled breach of contract and defamation action involving statements made on Facebook about plaintiff to coerce payment for goods not delivered.
• Handled a breach of credit card agreement action against a law firms for failure to pay on several cards issued to attorneys in the firm.
• Handled a request for transfer of structured settlement payments.
• Handled a breach of loan agreement and personal guarantees for failure to repay.
• Handled a breach of credit card agreement for failure to pay over $38,000.
• Tried a breach of lease of helicopter aviation equipment and use of common areas for parking the helicopters. JURY TRIAL
• Handled an action requesting transfer of structured settlement payments.
• Handled breach of vehicle agreement for purchase of a Pontiac Trans Am plaintiff won in a contest but certain fees were required to be paid and he failed to pay then with claims for fraud, common counts and breach of warranty.
• Handled a breach of equipment finance agreement of a 2000 Pederbilt 320 for failure to make monthly payments and breach of personal guaranty.
• Handled a breach of promissory note for failure to repay.
• Handled a breach of contract and unjust enrichment action against bank for miscalculation of payoff demand to purchase property resulting in overpayment with additional claims for declaratory relief and accounting.
• Handled a breach of contact action brought by attorney against client for failure to pay fees for work performed in underlying consolidated trial.
• Handled a breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty action involving a failure to pay fees to doctor shareholder resulting from the mismanagement of a medical practice.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the purchase of a vehicle at a vehicle sales auction.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action for failure to pay for services.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement.
• Handled a breach of loan agreement action for failure to repay to doctor/employer and conversion and breach of fiduciary duty when same employee paid herself for sick and vacation days to which she was not entitled.
• Handled a breach of contract involving a loan and security agreement to purchase two tractors for failure to repay with account stated and request for a writ of possession.
• Handled a breach of oral contract for failure to pay.
• Handled an action involving fraud and breach of contract in an investment in a 182 unit apartment complex in Arizona.
• Handled a breach of contract action where auction house hired to sell certain unique aerospace parts, but failed to return those items not sold with claims for conversion, fraud, declaratory relief and injunctive relief.
• Handled a breach of loan agreement for failure to repay on loan.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving an extension of credit to finance two real estate property development projects in Riverside County of single family homes for failure to repay.
• Handled a breach of private vehicle sales agreement for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of a loan agreement between friends for failure to repay.
• Handled a request for sister state judgment for judgment entered on a breach of contract dispute out of state.
• Handled an action seeking a charging order to satisfy a judgment with an interest in a partnership.
• Handled an action involving breach of a retainer agreement and failure to pay for legal fees.
• Handled a breach of a loan agreement for failure to repay.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle purchase contract action failure to make payments on a Porsche Carrera.
• Handled a breach of a loan agreement action for failure to repay all amounts owed.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving payment in full for services not provided.
• Handled a breach of promissory note action for failure to pay the amount owed.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a failure to pay for tax services.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving failure to pay for a suite at Staples Center.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay legal fees involving legal services performed in an underlying foreclosure action.
• Handled an action involving surplus funds deposited for determination of proper claimants.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the lease of a fleet of vehicles and failure to pay the monthly fees due.
• Handled a fraud and breach of contract action involving the transfer of an interest in a Chinese restaurant to a relative who then exerted ownership of the entire restaurant and embezzled funds with additional claims for conversion, constructive trust and accounting
• Handled an action involving a breach of a master services agreement and misuse of funds.
• Tried a breach of action involving a promissory note and failure to repay amounts owed. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a trademark infringement and dilution action.
• Handled a breach of contract action between movie studios.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the failure to pay for legal services incurred in several different matters.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the failure to pay invoices upon receipt.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving several bounced checks.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving failure to legal fees provided in obtaining a settlement in an underlying case.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for experimental treatments.
• Handled an injunctive relief action to stop enforcement of local ordinance prohibiting the sale of cannabis in the city.
• Handled a negligence action involving an automobile accident on the 5 freeway when a truck struck a light pole causing it to fall and strike a vehicle.
• Handled an action involving an appraisal of a guitar collection with claims for constructive trust and accounting for not returning the guitars.
• Handled a breach of contract, accounting and breach of fiduciary duty action involving a failure to pay owner all amounts collected by property manager
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action involving improper burial and funeral services with wrong relative in wrong casket.
• Handled a patent and design infringement action involving aerospace technology.
• Handled an indemnity and declaratory relief action involving failure to pay for legal services in an underlying case.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a failure to pay for therapy sessions.
• Handled a breach of personal guaranty action.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving payments for items requested by a singer on a personal assistant’s personal credit card and personal loan for which she was never reimbursed.
• Handled a breach of promissory note for failure to repay.
• Handled a breach of settlement agreement action for failure to pay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of promissory note and breach of personal guaranty action with over $100,000 still due.
• Handled a breach of credit card agreement action where over $48,000 is owed.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a computer tablet to be used at restaurants to order and pay for food that did not work due to corrosion issues.
• Handled a breach of a revolving line of credit and promissory note action where over $670,000 owed.
• Handled breach of promissory note action with over $82,000 owed.
• Handled a breach of a commercial loan and promissory note.
• Handled a breach of guaranty action on a business loan with over $9,000,000 still owed.
• Handled a breach of an equipment lease with over $380,000 owed.
• Handled a breach of commercial loan for failure to repay.
• Handled a breach of manufacturing contract involving the use of a proprietary cosmetics formula and breach of a non-disclosure agreement.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the fronting of money in exchange for a quitclaim deed on a property in Redondo Breach but the money was never paid with additional claims for quantum meruit and specific performance.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for cleaning and storage performed at a Chinese restaurant.
• Tried a breach of a contract for the sale of a sports car and fraud regarding the amount of racing experience defendant had.
• Handled a breach of promissory note, elder abuse and fraud involving a failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the assignment of debts in exchange for a real estate deal which was never closed.
• Handled a breach of settlement agreement action involving a breach of lease for failure to pay all amounts owed.
• Handled a neighbor dispute involving the removal of trees from plaintiff’s yard by defendants without permission and the debris was left in plaintiff’s yard with claims for trespass, nuisance, negligence and destruction of property.
• Handled a breach of promissory note action or failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled breach of contract action involving the purchase of a medical supply company where only half of the purchase price was paid with additional claims for fraud and rescission.
• Handled a breach of retainer agreement action for failure to pay for legal fees provided in a divorce proceeding.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the sale of cinnamon flavored marshmallows for failure to pay and cross claim for breach of contract because the marshmallows smelled like styrene.
• Handled a Song-Beverly Act action involving the sale of a Dodge Dart that could not be fixed after several attempts to repair.
• Handled breach of services contract action for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to repay loan.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving work performed but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for services provided.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving forensic accounting services provided at trial and the failure to pay for that expert witness testimony, costs and expenses with over $115,000 owed.
• Handled a breach of contract action and failure to pay amounts owed.
• Handled a breach of loan modification agreement and fraud action for failure to complete agreement.
• Handled an action for a turnover order involving an underlying judgment for breach of contract.
• Handled a breach of contract and indemnity action for amounts paid on a bond.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle repair contract involving the failure to properly repair the vehicle and failure to return vehicle.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for services provided.
• Tried a breach of a $4,000,000 letter of credit action where defendant took out money through a series of wire transfers without permission for himself with additional claims for fraud, negligence, conversion and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Handled a breach of a real estate management agreement for failure to perform properly.
• Handled a breach of a promissory note action between a former husband and wife for failure to repay.
• Handled action for breach of four promissory notes and a failure to pay on any of them.
• Handled breach of contract action for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the purchase of a liquor store and not amounts owed were paid.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the sale of aircraft engines that were delivered but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action involving damaged caused to a Maserati when it was taken to a body shop for repair.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving brokering a deal with an athletic conference and a telecommunications company, but the athletic conference completed the deal without the broker and without paying any commissions after introductions were made.
• Handled a breach of a partnership agreement action for failure to pay on a promissory note provided to the partnership for an ownership percentage.
• Handled an action involving enforcement of a prior judgment for failure to pay for freight services.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the purchase of ballasts for a water filtration system which failed to meet industry standards with additional claims for breach of warranty, fraud, and Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the purchase and sale of thermoplastic paid for but did not conform to specifications with additional claims for conversion, unjust enrichment and violation of Bus. & Prof. § 17200.
• Tried a breach of a contract action for the purchase of a Peterbilt truck, subsequent fire and destruction of the truck and who is entitled to the insurance proceeds paid out on the loss of the truck.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving trial preparation and presentation services provided but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving the rights to shares in a business.
• Handled a breach of promissory note action for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay over $104,000 after goods and services provided with fraud, negligence, unjust enrichment and account stated.
• Handled a breach of a franchise agreement.
• Breach of contract action between cousins who agreed that lender cousin could live in the property which would serve as repayment of the loan and borrower cousin transferred his ownership percentage to lender as collateral, thereafter lender asked borrower to repurchase the property from him in breach of the agreement.
• Handled a breach of vehicle rental contract action involving a Mercedes Benz and failure to pay.
• Tried a breach of contract and breach of personal guaranty action with over $35,000 owed.
• Handled a breach of a purchase and services agreement action for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of a goods and services contract action provided but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contract action between dentists involving consultations and x-rays provided to defendant’s patients but never paid for with additional claims for fraud and violation of Bus. & Prof. § 17200.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving products manufactured and delivered but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving a booking agent who was hired to book Lil Wayne, but kept the money and did not set up the booking.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving two warehouse and distribution service companies removed plaintiff as a manager with additional claims for defamation, Bus. & Prof. Code § 17299 and intentional interference with prospective economic relations.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving an agreement to quit claim a deed with in exchange for the payment of outstanding debts of over $150,000 on the property, but payment was never made.
• Handled a dangerous condition on public property and negligence action against utility company when pedestrian fell into an unmarked and uncovered hole.
• Handled a negligence action involving a vehicle collision.
• Handled an action involving a breach of the CC&Rs of a homeowner’s association for failure to pay assessments.
• Handled a subrogation action involving water damage caused by faulty water filtration.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for transport of containers from port.
• Handled breach of contract action for failure to pay for services provided.
• Handled breach of contract action for failure to all amounts owed.
• Handled an action for breach of contract for medical services provided but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving jewelry left at a loan company as collateral and the sale of that jewelry before given the opportunity to repay the loan.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for products delivered.
• Handled a breach of franchise agreement action for failure to pay royalties.
• Handled a breach of contract and elder abuse action for failure to notify of relocation move of a patient/resident.
• Handled a negligence action for failure to supervise children at preschool allowing a child to wander away from the school.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for work performed on the design, permitting and installation of a swimming pool and spa.
• Handled a petition for transfer of structured settlement payments.
• Handled a negligence action against a city for failure to issue a business license.
• Handled a negligence claim against a motel where a naked man was found in the room assigned to a female customer.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a failure to manage and maintain computer hardware at a company and failure to do so.
• Handled a breach of loan agreement for failure to repay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of a consulting services agreement for failure to pay corporate taxes and maintain the facility.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the failure to pay for goods manufactured and delivered.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a new cooling system for maintaining servers in a start-up bitcoin business but the cooling system did not work.
• Handled a breach of credit line contract action involving the bank’s failure to advance amounts requested.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving the failure to pay for leased medical diagnostic equipment and failure to return the equipment.
• Tried a breach of contract, fraud, and conversion action for items sold by pawn shop before items could be retrieved. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a failure to pay amounts owed.
• Handled a breach of commercial loan agreement for failure to repay amounts due.
• Handled breach of contract and fraud action for use of trucks to pick up waste and receive direct payments without providing any money to the waste company that owns the trucks with additional claims for unjust enrichment, conversion, accounting and constructive trust.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay attorney fees incurred in an underlying transactional matter.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the purchase of commercial property for failure to make repairs required during escrow.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action involving side effects from a prescription drug.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action for failure to complete the sale of a property in Redondo Beach
• Handled a breach of contract action involving services provided but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contact action involving the failure to pay for a bond issued to criminal defendant.
• Handled a breach of business loan agreement.
• Handled a credit card collection action.
• Handled a breach of loan agreement and personal guaranty.
• Handled a breach of contact action for failure to pay for gold coins delivered to buyer.
• Handled a breach of contract and recovery of state license regarding delivery of reinforced steel to a project.
• Handled a breach of contract involving the sale of an Audi RS7 for failure to pay the balance due of $95,000.
• Handled a breach of a loan agreement action.
• Tried a breach of contract action for money loaned to find buyers in Asia and was never repaid. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of contract for goods and services not paid for.
• Handled a breach of loan agreement for failure to repay amount due.
• Handled a breach of the sale of a liquor store where the liquor license was not transferred because the owner refused to cooperate in the transfer.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the failure to pay amounts due for plastic surgery performed.
• Handled breach of contract, fraud, conversion and negligence action involving car repairs paid for but not completed.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement action.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle sales agreement action involving damages cause by the failure to register the Jeep in the purchaser’s name, incurring parking tickets, towing charges and DMV charges.
• Tried a breach of contract action for failure to pay all premiums owed. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving a $6,000,000 investment in a company to produce a film with post production profit sharing, however there was no film and the money was used to purchase a home in Manhattan Beach.
• Handled a breach of a promissory note, fraud and conversion action for failure to repay amounts due.
• Tried a breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud action involving the drastic over payment for gold coins based upon misrepresentation concerning their value. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the sale of trailers.
• Handled a breach of contract and injunctive relief regarding fumigation at a condominium complex.
• Handled a petition to reduce the percentage of votes need to modify a homeowner association’s CC&Rs.
• Handled a breach of contract involving a hotel stay
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement.
• Handled a breach of insurance contract action for workers compensation insurance provided but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to repay amounts due on loans.
• Handled a breach of a commission agreement and fraud action for failure to pay the commission.
• Handled a breach of contract and violations of Corporations Code action for refusal to allow shareholder to review the books and records of the company to determine allure of shares after fired from employment.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving numerous changes in “chair assignments” between different hair stylists.
• Handled a breach of several loan agreements and breach of guaranty agreements for failure to pay amounts owed.
• Handled an action involving a breach of a new business loan agreement and breach of personal guaranty for failure to make monthly payments.
• Handled an action involving breach of student loan for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the auctioning off of the contents of plaintiff’s public storage unit for failure to pay monthly rent.
• Handled a breach of management agreement action for a strip mall and obtaining a loan on the property without prior written approval as required by the contract.
• Handled an action involving contractual arbitration clause in a business dispute.
• Handled an action involving an attorney’s fees dispute.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a surety bond against surety.
• Handled an action involving the misappropriation of trade secrets with breach of the duty of loyalty, violation of the Labor Code and breach of an employment contract claims when employee solicited clients from a confidential list to go with him to his new employer.
• Handled break up of a medical plan management partnership with accounting, fraud and fraudulent concealment claims.
• Handled an action involving a breach of loan agreement for failure to repay, with negligence, fraud, and conversion claims.
• Handled a breach of three loan agreements action for failure to repay.
• Handled breach of a loan agreement and breach of promissory note for failure to repay with additional claims for fraud, unjust enrichment and common counts.
• Tried an action involving breach of contract for money owed on a vehicle sales agreement with a defense that the vehicle was stolen that day before insurance was purchased for the vehicle and dealership’s insurance refused to pay on the loss. COURT TRIAL
• Tried a breach of a loan agreement for failure to prepay on a loan provided to daughter-in-law on a property in Manhattan Beach with claims for declaratory relief, specific performance, and judicial foreclosure. COURT TRIAL.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving behavioral treatments provided to defendant’s son that the insurance carrier stopped making payments for and defendant did not pay for it.
• Handled an action involving the breach of contract based on a surety bond.
• Handled a breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty action against former officer and director involving disposition of $30 million real property and depletion of corporate bank accounts.
• Handled an action against corporate officers and directors for mismanagement.
• Handled an action seeking indemnity and contribution by insurer against a chemical company for amounts paid to insured.
• Handled a misappropriation of trade secrets action involving an ink jet printing equipment for large photographic prints/ posters with additional claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and unfair competition.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action for double billing on commission for on-line marketing and management services of over $400,000.
• Handled a breach of contact action involving a failure to pay commissions to the manager of a rock band.
• Handled a breach of a credit card agreement for failure to repay amounts owed.
• Handled a breach of contract action against a mortuary for the mishandling of a godmother’s remains.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action involving poorly installed hardwood floors that squeaked and buckled.
• Tried a breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence action involving the procurement of the wrong coverage which lead to a denial of coverage for a ground water contamination claim. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a breach of settlement agreement action for failure to pay amounts agreed to.
• Handled a foreclosure on surety bond and open book account action.
• Handled a breach of a vehicle sale agreement for a Nissan Frontier for failure to pay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach vehicle sales contract and conversion for failure to pay all amounts owed and refusal to return the vehicle.
• Handled an action to enforce a judgment.
• Handled a lemon law action involving the sale of Ford Fiesta with numerous defects that could not be repaired after several attempts.
• Handled Song Beverly Act/lemon law action involving a Chevrolet Colorado with numerous defects that could not be fixed after several attempts.
• Handled a libel action brought by one doctor against another for a letter sent to a college criticizing the doctor.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action involving the joint purchase of a time share in Cabo San Lucas where one of the partners failure to repay $72,000 on a promissory note for his share.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to refer PPO patients and a claim for breach of a promissory note for failure to repay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract, and unjust enrichment action for agreeing to post the required bond for a travel agency and was never repaid for it.
• Tried a breach of contract action involving entrustment of a dog to a friend while dog had to be quarantined before transport to Hawaii and refusal to send the dog when requested. COURT TRIAL
• Handled shareholder derivative action involving failure to pay dividends to shareholders and instead the officers and directors only paid themselves with claims for breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, unjust enrichment and accounting.
• Handled a declaratory relief and rescission of a settlement agreement action.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving an agreement to perform home repairs in exchange for the exclusive listing rights when work was competed the exclusive listing rights were given to another agent.
• Handled a breach of a promissory note and fraud action for failure to repay.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the failure to pay for vehicle clutches and components that were delivered.
• Handled a breach of a promissory note action for failure to repay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving an order for custom watches that were never delivered, but full payment was made.
• Handled a breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, and misappropriation of trade secrets involving a commission agreement to solicit buyers of a stamping process and took the trade secrets to start his own business.
• Handled a fraud and breach of contract action involving whether proper distributions were made regarding the sale of properties in an estate.
• Handled a breach of a broker’s commission agreement action for failure to pay commission after closing.
• Handled breach of contract, fraud and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage involving untimely medical billing services which caused a loss of Medicare billing receipts.
• Tried a breach of contract action between two people in a former dating relationship and responsibility for bills and rights to property. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of contract action for services and products delivered but not paid for.
• Tried an action involving monthly fees to a doctor referral agency wherein the doctor’s charges would be discounted as a member of the service, but none of the doctor’s fees were discounted. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of a vehicle sales and Song Beverly Act action involving numerous defects and a failure to fix the problems after several attempts.
• Tried a breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty action involving the percentage of ownership shares in a medical services company with additional claims for accounting, declaratory relief, fraud, injunctive relief and specific performance. COURT TRIAL
• Handled petition for foreclosure on partnership assets to pay amounts owed on a sister state judgment of over $179,000.
• Handled an action involving funds deposited with the court that a city requests be released to it for amounts still due and owing.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a vending machine at an airport and failure to comply with ADA requirements.
• Handled a petition for transfer of structured settlement payments for medical care and treatment.
• Handled a breach of fiduciary duty and negligence action involving the mismanagement of a charitable organization funds and failure to keep any corporate formalities.
• Handed a lemon law action involving the sale of a vehicle with numerous defects which could not be fixed despite several attempts.
• Handled a breach of contract, conspiracy and fraud action involving distribution of wall art and images of sports figures where employee used sham license agreements to funnel funds to himself and co-defendants.
• Handled an action involving a breach of care services agreement for failure to pay for services rendered to decedent spouse. Attendant also performed cooking, cleaning, laundering and gardening services.
• Handled debt collection matter assigned to debt collection company (x20+, but tried 13)
• Handled an action seeking transfer of structured settlement payments.
• Handled a lemon law action involving a Cadillac Escalade with numerous issues that could not be fixed after several attempts in the service department.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving an arbitration clause and untimely request for arbitration.
• Handled an action to transfer structured settlement payments for school and living expenses.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving money lent and secured by real property in Palm Springs but not repaid with additional claims for breach of fiduciary duty, money lent, and open book account.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the installation and monitoring of a residential security system that failed where intruders broke into the home, stole property and the company never notified the police with additional claims for fraud, negligence, product liability and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Tried a breach of contract action involving several different notes from different lenders that were not repaid. COURT TRIAL
• Handled breach of a vehicle installment contract involving failure to pay for Dodge Challenger and refusal to return the vehicle.
• Handled an action seeking the disbursement of structured settlement payments to pay off medical bills.
• Handled a breach of contract action for software products were defective and no technical support was provided.
• Handled a breach of contract action for failure to pay for legal services provided.
• Handled a breach of contract, negligence and elder abuse action involving a kitchen remodel that was not completed though paid in full.
• Handled an action involving an agreement to provide auto detailing services to a dealership and failure to pay for those services.
• Handled a breach of loan agreement and fraud action involving an investment in a business and failure to repay the loan.
• Handled a breach of contract action and negligence action involving negative credit reports even though cardholder was not behind in any payments.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving loans made to a corporation controlled by one individual with alter ego issues.
• Handled a breach of a settlement agreement for failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled an action involving a payment bond and work performed for a community college district but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of contract action for forensic accounting services provided for litigation but not paid for.
• Handled a lemon law action involving a Ford Fusion with transmission issues.
• Handled a breach of a subcontract action for painting work completed.
• Handled a breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty action brought by a former board member for violations of a private women’s club rules.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving advertisements on a vehicle website that were not paid for.
• Handled breach of a retainer agreement action for failure to pay legal fees incurred in an underlying bankruptcy action.
• Handled breach of a retainer agreement action for failure to pay legal fees incurred in an underlying bankruptcy action.
• Handled breach of contract, conversion, unjust enrichment and negligence involving work performed and payments provided to defendant and never deposited into construction company’s account.
• Handled a battery, declaratory relief and injunctive relief action where one partner punched the other when they could not agree on the value of restaurant, whether to sell the restaurant, and each owner’s percentage of ownership.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation action involving the renting a restaurant for an art show and later would not allow the entire restaurant to be used for the art show.
• Handled an action involving two factions of parishioners seeking control of management and administration of a church.
• Handled an action requesting the transfer of structured settlement payments.
• Handled a breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty action by an insurance agent for failure to obtain al coverage requested and later incident not covered.
• Handled a breach of fiduciary action involving the rights and obligations of officers and directors.
• Handled an action involving a dispute over dog ownership including declaratory relief, injunctive relief, breach of oral contract, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled an injunctive relief and accounting action by a church after several board members were ex-communicated without cause or due process in a dispute over the leadership of the church.
• Handled an invasion of privacy action for recording debt collection telephone calls without consent.
• Handled a petition to enforce a Florida sister state judgment.
• Handled a petition for recognition of foreign money judgment.
• Handled a claim of exemption against wage garnishment.
• Handled a petition to determine the proper claimant to surplus funds after property sale.
• Handled an indemnity action by an insurer against another insurer.
• Handled a constructive trust, fraud and accounting action against a trustee who was charged with protecting and maintaining a collection of guitars and electronic equipment and instead kept the collection and equipment for himself and refused to return them.
• Handled a petition to enforce a sister state judgment involving breach of contract.
• Handled an action stemming from an underlying family law matter and the ownership and control of various businesses.
• Handled an action involving a claimant seeking interest payments on monies deposited with the court.
• Handled an oral breach of action involving a grandmother’s assets and her verbal wish to have all of her assets distributed equally between her son and grandchildren and son refused to share the assets of her estate with an additional claim for financial elder abuse.
• Handled action involving confirming an arbitration award (20+ times)

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• Settled neighbor dispute involving damage caused by a fallen tree to walls, driveway, foundation and house.
• Settled a neighbor dispute involving premises liability and negligence claims.
• Settled neighbor dispute involving the unauthorized entry on to a neighbor’s property to chop down a tree and shrubs obstructing the view.
• Settled a neighbor dispute involving the unauthorized entry on to a neighbor’s property to cut down a tree whose roots were raising up and destroying the driveway and pavers and an adjacent block wall.
• Settled several breach of lease actions (15+).

• Handled a breach of real estate purchase and sale agreement, misrepresentations regarding preexisting code violations. Motion for Summary Judgement granted on statute of limitations grounds.
• Tried a breach of contract and fraud in the purchase and sale of residential real property action. Jury verdict.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence by real estate brokers action regarding representations and warranties. Motion for Summary Judgment granted on statute of limitations grounds.
• Tried a partition of real property action between siblings. Accounting also completed. Court trial.
• Tried a real property dispute between neighbors involving partition, breach of contract, conversion, Statute of Frauds and declaratory relief. Court trial.
• Handled real property dispute regarding whether a neighbor had a right of way over the other’s property. Claims for declaratory relief, trespass, and diminution in value.
• Handled breach of a loan and repayment plan. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
• Tried a sale of real property action involving fraud, breach of contract, failure to cooperate in the loan process, and destruction of property without authorization. Court trial.
• Handled foreclosure of mechanic’s lien, fraud, breach of roofing contract, breach of personal guarantees, and subcontractor contracts on three commercial properties.
• Handled action involving a real estate partnership agreement. Breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, fraudulent concealment, violation of Civil Code § 1102, and breach of contract claims. The action also involved real estate brokers and their negligence in failing to disclose known defects during the sale.
• Handled action involving a breach of a real estate purchase and sale agreement and agency agreement where agent was not paid commission.
• Handled action involving the destruction of exterior improvements by a neighboring condominium owners. Vandalism, trespass and injunctive relief sought.
• Handled action involving a bank against a developer owner and real estate brokers for breach of contract negligence, and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Handled an action involving a real estate sales contract with claims of breach of contract, conversion, fraudulent conveyance, and constructive trust.
• Handled an action involving the operation of a competing restaurant in the same shopping mall with claims of breach of lease, injunctive relief.
• Tried an unlawful detainer action involving commercial real estate.
• Handled an action involving a breach of commercial lease where possession was n longer an issue.
• Handled an action involving a neighbor dispute with claims for adverse possession, injunctive relief and trespass regarding a concrete wall and fence.
• Handled an unlawful detainer action involving breach of lease- warranty of habitability and breach of quiet enjoyment, retaliatory eviction, and intentional infliction of emotional distress where eviction affected plaintiff’s tax preparation business.
• Handled breach of residential real estate sales agreement and breach of the broker’s agreement.
• Tried neighbor dispute involving a fence, vegetation and other structures on adjacent property. Clams included trespass, nuisance, declaratory relief.
• Handled an action involving a failure to disclose known defects in real property before the close of escrow. Claims included breach of contract, negligence.
• Handled a breach of escrow agreement action when escrow and purchase of the property fell through against escrow agent and co.
• Tried an action involving a city suing a homeowner for violation of its HOA rules and regulations and building without permits. (Court Trial).
• Handled breach of lease action involving restrictive covenants within the lease that a prohibited a competing store in the same business to lease space in the same strip mall. Involved two furniture stores.
• Tried an action involving a breach of lease with option to buy contract between brokers with violation of the Home Equity Sale Contract Act, quiet title, unjust enrichment and accounting claims. (Court Trial).
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the sale of residential real property by broker without authority to bind the client. Claims also included breach of fiduciary duty.
• Handled an action involving a real property dispute, coverage and appraisals.
• Tried an action involving a family dispute over ownership and control of real property located in Inglewood after father’s death. The claims included partition, fraud, breach of oral contract, reformation of deed, intentional infliction of emotional distress, specific performance, quiet title, and accounting.
• Handled an action involving a breach of lease and whether tenant improvements were constructed and completed as set forth in the designs and architectural drawings or whether the tenant improvements remained unfinished at the time the tenants took possession.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a purchase and sale of real property agreement with additional claim for specific performance, and declaratory relief.
• Handled action involving a breach of a promissory note involving commercial real property for non-payment on monthly payments.
• Handled an action involving a breach of a family partnership involving real estate other family transactions including unpaid taxes and breach of fiduciary duty claims.
• Tried a breach of the homeowner’s rules and regulations involving misuse of the designated guest parking. Claims included breach of contract and negligence.
• Handled an action involving dispute between family members regarding real property and who is entitled to proceeds with partition and declaratory relief claims.
• Handled an action involving a dispute over ownership of real property after mother passed away between brother and sister with partition and declaratory relief claims.
• Handled a breach of a commercial real estate purchase agreement action and whether assignments were allowed under the agreement. Also involved claims for negligence, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Handled a partition action after the death of the father of the family between the live-in girlfriend and relatives regarding the proceeds.
• Handled a partition action after the death of the father of the family between the step-daughter and other relatives regarding the proceeds.
• Handled an action involving the distribution of sales proceeds from a real property sale amongst creditor claimants and determination of priority of liens.
• Handled an action involving the determination of whether a valid binding agreement was reached in an underlying breach of lease action with declaratory relief, injunctive relief, promissory estoppel and breach of contract claims.
• Handled an action involving a dispute between neighbors in a breach community regarding a driveway that crosses over a portion of the over neighbor’s property with claims for quiet title, adverse possession, prescriptive easement, easement by implication or necessity.
• Handled an action involving the breach of a residential lease on a home in Rancho Palos Verdes with claims of negligent maintenance of premises, and breach of the warranty of habitability.
• Handled an action involving a neighbor dispute caused when the defendant cutdown tree limbs causing a tree to die, and cutting down rose bushes and disabling a gate which were located in part on plaintiff and defendants adjacent properties with trespass, quiet title, nuisance and adverse possession claims.
• Handled a quiet title action on a home in Rowland Heights involving family members.
• Handled a breach of lease action by tenant for breach of implied warranty of habitability, and nuisance, negligent maintenance.
• Tried a commercial unlawful detainer with over $50,000 owed.
• Handled an action involving a breach of lease and personal guaranty for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving respiratory problems resulting from exposure to mold in an apartment with negligence, constructive eviction, nuisance, and breach of the warranty of habitability.
• Handled an action involving a breach of a commercial lease for failure to pay rent.
• Handled a breach of lease and amenities contract action against landlord for destruction of visitor and telephone logs by receptionist provided by landlord with interference with prospective contractual relations and breach of the UCL.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease and breach of personal guaranty action for failure to pay monthly rent with additional acclaims for conversion and claim and delivery.
• Handled a breach of lease action for unpaid rent.
• Handled a breach of a commercial lease action for a fitness club for failure to disclose ongoing construction at adjacent property affecting the business, with additional acclaims for fraud, negligence and rescission.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease for a restaurant for failure to pay.
• Handled action involving the sale of a condominium and distribution of funds post sale with priority of creditors an issue.
• Handled an action involving the sale of an apartment building, use of forged signature for an out-of-state loan against the property and then the property was sold by the party who forged the signature to a third party. Involved claims for quiet title, cancellation of instruments, declaratory relief, slander of title, constructive trust, unjust enrichment, indemnity and fraud.
• Tried an action involving tax and accounting services and a failure to reimburse for monies paid for real property taxes but not owed. COURT TRIAL
• Tried a breach of contract and fraud action involving two pieces of real property that plaintiff signed over to defendants based upon misrepresentations regarding aid in obtaining a second mortgage on one property and sell the other when defendant sold the property to himself at a greatly discounted under market value price with additional claims for quiet title, cancellation of deeds, slander of title, and declaratory relief. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a partition and ejectment action involving co-owners of real property and dispute over possession rights.
• Tried partition and quiet title action involving a dispute over ownership of real property with additional claims for fraud and constructive trust. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of a real estate commission action involving the sale of real property in Hermosa Beach and failure to pay commissions due with additional claims for false promise, account stated and unjust enrichment.
• Handled a breach of a real estate purchase and sales agreement action involving a failure to disclose cracks in the foundation and other issues with a home in Torrance with additional claims for fraud, negligent misrepresentation and violation of Bus. & Prof. Code §17200.
• Handled post judgment claims by several individuals and a church to the right of possession of real property.
• Handled a breach of the CC&Rs action against a homeowner for playing loud music and threatening others on premises with additional claims for nuisance, trespass and injunctive relief.
• Tried a quiet title and fraud action involving forged title documents causing transfer of title without consent for a home in Griffith Park.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease action for failure to make rental payments.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving removal of property from apartment for failure to pay rent and failure to maintain the property.
• Handled a breach of a real estate sales agreement action for failure to close escrow.
• Handled a neighbor quiet title and trespass action involving a wall built on part of plaintiff ‘s property over the property line.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease.
• Handled a family dispute involving ownership of several properties after death of patriarch after unauthorized changes in title surfaced with claims for conversion, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, trespass and quiet title.
• Handled a neighbor dispute involving cutting down a neighbor’s tress without permission with claims for trespass and negligence.
• Handled neighbor dispute regarding the ability to cross over a neighbor’s land to access property where neighbor erected a fence blocking access with claims for quiet title, equitable easement and injunctive relief.
• Handled a partition action between co-owners involving claims that defendant was not applying rental income to mortgage loan payment or to pay property taxes with additional claims for declaratory relief and accounting.
• Handled a quiet title, breach of contract and unjust enrichment action involving the purchase of real property in Arcadia by step son and whether deceased father and step sister loaned him the money to buy the home.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action for failure to pay commission to real estate broker.
• Tried a resulting trust and declaratory relief action involving the purchase of real property together but the property was not placed in both names because of bad credit and then defendant sold the property without plaintiff’s consent. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of partnership and dissolution action for the purchase of an apartment building in El Segundo where personal payments could not be accounted for.
• Handled an action involving claims to ownership and possession of real property.
• Handled an action involving a family dispute over the percentage of proceeds each family member is entitled to regarding real property.
• Handled a quiet title action involving a condominium owned by joint tenants.
• Handled a quiet title action involving equitable subrogation on real property owned by debtor.
• Handled a quiet title action involving numerous lenders vying for priority and one of the lenders failed to record its deed of trust.
• Handled an action seeking specific performance the sale of commercial property.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the sale of real property.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a transfer of real property in exchange for having an honors program named after the donor.
• Handled a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action involving the purchase of an elderly person’s real property at far below market value while acting as a personal representative and advisor with additional claims for conversion, constructive trust and accounting.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action involving a negligent appraisal of real property.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving the subletting of a premises without landlord consent and after improvements made to property by the subletting party.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a breach of lease action for failure to pay monthly rent.
• Handled a breach of lease and option to buy action involving improvements and remodeling performed on a duplex and the landlord then refused to sell it.
• Handled a neighbor dispute action involving roots from hedges encroaching on a neighbor’s property causing damage to sprinkler system with claims for nuisance, trespass and negligence.
• Handled a neighbor dispute action involving an unpermitted fence that blocked an easement with claims for quiet title, trespass, equitable easement and injunctive relief.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the joint purchase of a property with agreement that each would contribute funds to the purchase, but defendant failed to do so and sublet the property to friends and never accounted for the rent with claims for partition, accounting and declaratory relief.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer.
• Handled a breach of contract and partition action involving the purchase of a property as joint tenants but one party’s name was omitted from the deed.
• Handled a breach of a commercial lease where water leaks damaged products.
• Handled a neighbor boundary dispute involving the building of a surfing shed compound with harassing signs pointed at neighbor with claims for quiet title, nuisance and declaratory relief.
• Handled an elder abuse, fraud and quiet title action against the half sister of decedent who agreed to administer decedent’s estate and then took personal property from the estate and transferred title into her own name.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving exposure to toxic mold and retaliatory eviction for complaining about the mold.
• Handled a neighbor dispute involving damage caused by water intrusion, noise during construction of a new home, a fence constructed over the property line, and pointing flood lights at the neighbor’s windows with claims for nuisance, trespass and negligence.
• Handled a neighbor dispute involving a dispute over the property line and the construction of a wall encroaching on plaintiff’s property in Torrance with claims for trespass, nuisance and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a breach of a purchase and sale agreement action involving a 390-unit apartment project where the sale fell through because financing was not confirmed by the broker though he said it was with additional claims for breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and fraud.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease action involving an unauthorized subcontract with an LAX shuttle company without the landlord’s permission with additional claims for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and negligence.
• Handled breach of real estate sales agreement action for failure to close with additional claims for specific performance, and negligent misrepresentation.
• Handled a fraud and quiet title action brought by son involving the quitclaim of 20 properties the day before the owner died of colon cancer by defendant.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving property damage caused by ongoing construction improvements at a shopping center.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving early termination of lease.
• Handled a breach of lease and premises liability action involving bed bugs infestation.
• Handled a breach of real estate sales agreement action for failure to pay all installment payments.
• Handled a neighbor dispute involving the cutting of trees without permission.
• Handled a breach of lease action for failure to pay.
• Tried a commercial unlawful detainer action. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of lease action involving a failure to pay rent.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving poor conditions at a home in Hermosa Beach.
• Tried a quiet title action involving joint tenants who agreed to jointly buy a property with one performing all of the renovations which were never completed. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a wrongful eviction action from a substance abuse center.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a wrongful eviction action from a motel.
• Handled breach of lease action involving cockroach, rat and bed bug infestation with additional claims for fraud, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease for negligently serving a notice to quit where the rent was paid in full.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer.
• Handled a quiet title and declaratory relief action involving a verbal agreement that decedent would buy property and hold for defendants until they got back on their feet financially, but he died before the transfer back could occur.
• Handled a breach of lease and negligence action involving exposure to toxic mold and injuries to all family members.
• Handled a partition and accounting action between co-tenant owners.
• Handled an unlawful detainer action.
• Handled an action to set aside an unlawful detainer judgment and trustee’s sale in underlying action.
• Handled a breach of lease action for failure to pay rent due.
• Tried an action involving partition and breach of fiduciary duty regarding a co-owned property.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving building and safety violations at an apartment building in Redondo Beach.
• Handled a breach of lease and premises liability action involving injuries caused by an infestation of bed bugs, cockroaches, and rats, faulty wiring, and a leaky roof.
• Handled a fraud, quiet title, and breach of contract action involving the purchase of a ranch in Chatsworth with equal contributions to the down payment, one purchaser obtained the loan since the other had bad credit, and the parties agreed to put both names on the deed after the close of escrow, but the deed of trust was never revised.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease for failure to timely deliver possession and dispute over amounts spent for tenant improvements.
• Handled a breach of lease and nuisance action involving injuries caused by bed bug infestation and health and safety violations.
• Handled a neighbor dispute action involving tree growing over the property line and on to a neighbor’s property and causing property damage to sidewalk with claims for negligence, nuisance and trespass.
• Tried a breach of lease action involving the theft of two fixtures - a canopy and industrial generator when tenants left.
• Handled a quiet title, fraud accounting, and unjust enrichment action involving the transfer of interest in real property to a fellow prison inmate to avoid debts.
• Tried a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a wrongful eviction and breach of lease action where the tenant was up to date on rental payments.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a residential unlawful detainer action in Hawthorne.
• Handled an unlawful detainer action involving residential property.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a breach of lease and negligence action involving damages caused by water leaks at a shopping center.
• Tried a neighbor dispute regarding boundary lines. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of purchase and sale of real property contract action for failure to return down payment.
• Handled breach of lease action involving an apartment in a dilapidated condition and failure to repair.
• Handled a breach of lease and breach of personal guaranty action for failure to pay rent and cross claims for breach of lease for failure to complete all required tenant improvements.
• Tried a quiet title action of a 500 square foot strip of land in a backyard that was purchased at a tax lien sale and rent demanded by purchased. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of lease and negligence action for damages caused by a fire at an apartment building.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease action for failure to pay rent.
• Tried a commercial unlawful detainer action. COURT TRIAL
• Tried a partition and declaratory relief action involving the joint purchase of a home with agreement one living at the property would pay all expenses and the other lent credit history to qualify for the loan, but payments were not all made. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of contract and quiet title action involving sale of property in Santa Monica where money was paid, but the owner refused to give up possession of the property.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a wrongful eviction action involving squatters.
• Handled a breach of a commercial lease for failure to pay rent.
• Handled a conversion, unjust enrichment, quiet title, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action involving the theft of money obtained from a lawsuit and in annuities by parents of adopted child to buy a home in parents name only without notice or authorization.
• Tried a family dispute over ownership of property in Inglewood with claims for quiet title, specific performance, unjust enrichment and declaratory relief.
• Tried an unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a breach of real estate purchase contract action of a Rancho Palos Verdes home but the owner demanded more money.
• Handled an unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a breach of lease action for failure to pay rent.
• Handled a neighbor nuisance, quiet title and trespass action involving the destruction of a block wall, palm tree, brick walkway and tree planter.
• Handled an unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a breach of lease, fraud and breach of the warranty of habitability action.
• Handled a breach of a commercial lease.
• Handled a breach of contract, quiet title, fraud and rescission when title was transferred as collateral for a personal loan from a friend.
• Handled a quiet title and declaratory relief action involving an interest in property that was never recorded.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving a failure to honor an extension clause in the lease and injunctive relief to prevent eviction.
• Handled a petition to sell property to satisfy an underlying judgment.
• Handled a partition action of a home in Hawthorne to satisfy an underlying judgment.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease action for failure to rent due.
• Tried a breach of commercial lease for damages to premises.
• Tried a family dispute involving ownership of real property with claims for partition, accounting and cancellation of instruments.
• Tried a neighbor dispute involving a brick wall over the property line in Manhattan Beach.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer.
• Handled a breach of a commercial lease and fraud.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a family dispute involving a property receivership with breach of contract, unjust enrichment and injunctive relief claims.
• Handled a fraudulent transfer and declaratory relief action involving the transfer of property in Wrightwood after a judgment is entered.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer.
• Handled a cancellation of instruments, fraud and accounting action involving a fraudulent delinquent assessment that was used to cause the sale of a condominium.
• Handled a breach of a commercial lease.
• Tried a family dispute involving ownership and control of numerous properties with claims for quiet title, partition, negligence, breach o fiduciary duty, fraud, conversion, and fraudulent conveyance. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a residential unlawful detainer.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a breach of lease for a restaurant and breach of personal guaranty for failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of a commercial lease action.
• Handled an unlawful detainer.
• Handled a quiet title, constructive trust and cancellation of instruments action to avoid foreclosures on four loans on four properties.
• Handled a breach of contract, fraud and specific performance action involving an agreement to provide for partner for life and buy properties together, but all of the properties were only in one name.
• Handled a breach of a short sale agreement of a home in Hawthorne for refusal to allow home inspection.
• Tried a breach of commercial lease action.
• Handled a breach of a real estate purchase agreement of a multi-unit apartment building.
• Handled a breach of a real estate purchase agreement involving a dual agent and failure to complete required in the escrow documents.
• Handled a breach of lease, nuisance, and negligence action involving cockroach and bed bug infestations.
• Handled an unlawful detainer action with possession still at issue.
• Handled an action against a city for cutting landscaping down to a level below that mandated by municipal codes and breaking other items on the property without the property owners consent with claims for negligence, trespass to chattels, conversion and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a breach of a real estate purchase agreement action for failure to disclose “stray voltage “ issues and unsafe magnetic fields caused by a nearby substation with claims for fraudulent concealment and negligent misrepresentation.
• Handled a breach of residential lease of property in Manhattan beach for failure illegal lockout and entry, fraud, conversion, trespass to chattels and declaratory relief.
• Tried a fraud, quiet title and fraudulent conveyance action regarding property in Los Angeles. JURY TRIAL.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a breach of lease action for failure to pay and cross-claims for breach of warranty of habitability, breach of implied covenant of quiet enjoyment, disability discrimination and constructive.
• Handled a petition to reduce the percentage of votes need to amend CC&Rs of a homeowner’s association.
• Handled a neighbor dispute in a condominium complex regarding the use of common areas with claims for nuisance, negligence and infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract action involving the purchase of real property and a failure to disclose defects in a property during escrow.
• Handled a neighbor dispute involving a low fence constructed over the property line and onto a grassy median on plaintiffs’ property which impeded plaintiffs from opening their car doors with claims for trespass and negligence.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving a medical building for overcharging the wrong amount per square footage.
• Handled a breach of lease action for failure to pay rent with related quiet title action.
• Handled a breach of storage space lease for failure to pay rent with cross claims for conversion of personal property - contents of storage space, trespass to chattels, fraud and negligence.
• Handled an action for the sale of a dwelling to satisfy a judgment.
• Handled a neighbor dispute regarding a strip of land between two parcels in Hermosa Beach and whether there is a prescriptive easement to use the parcel as a walkway and to place flower boxes with claims for quiet title and declaratory relief.
• Handled breach of lease agreement and retaliatory eviction for failure to pay.
• Handled a breach of lease, retaliatory eviction, conversion of personal property action after plaintiff vacated premises against landlord.
• Handled an inverse condemnation of property by the city and deprivation of civil rights claims.
• Handled a breach of residential lease for failure to disclose major remodel to commence at the apartment complex that would disrupt the plaintiff’s at-home work place with additional claims for nuisance, and breach of the implied covenant of quiet enjoyment.
• Handled a declaratory relief and cancellation of written instrument action involving a reconveyance of a deed through a forged signature.
• Handled a breach of a restoration agreement action involving damage caused by flooding for failure to pay for work completed.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving gardening and changes to windows in violation of the CC&Rs of a condominium complex HOA.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer.
• Handled breach of real estate sales agreement action with additional claims for fraud, quiet title, unjust enrichment.
• Handled a breach of contract action for the sale of commercial property for failure to pay all amounts due.
• Handled an action seeking to set aside a fraudulent transfer of real property specified in an underlying judgment.
• Handled a neighbor dispute involving the removal of two Eucalyptus tress on the property line with claims for nuisance, declaratory relief and injunctive relief.
• Handled a trespass and negligence action involving the cutting down of a neighbor’s tress without permission.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving injuries caused by exposure to mold due to ongoing plumbing issues.
• Handled a dispute between two factions of parishioners at a church involving the sale of real property.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a failure to disclose code violations regarding electrical, plumbing, windows, doors, sanitation and fire safety regarding a real estate purchase.
• Handled a negligence action involving damage caused to an adjacent landowner when a water line broken during tree removal and subsequent mold exposure.
• Handled a breach of a contract and fraud action involving deposit of the entire purchase price and failure to return the money when escrow did not close.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving additional claims for fraud, rescission, restitution and unjust enrichment where the commercial lease was for a hair salon but the property was not zoned for this purpose.
• Handled an unlawful detainer action.
• Handled a breach of a commercial lease action with over $150,000 owed.
• Handled a quiet title action between siblings and other family members after parents passed away.
• Handled an action for conversion and accounting involving personal property disposed of after plaintiff required to leave an apartment due to unlawful detainer judgment and was not allowed to retrieve it.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving plumbing and electrical problems with additional claims for breach of the warranty of habitability and slander and libel for statements made about plaintiff.
• Handled breach of a real estate sales agreement case where issue was whether all proper parties were named in the escrow documents or had authority to act with additional claims for fraud, negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Handled two related actions involving a former relationship and who own different personal property, real property, and who owes on various outstanding bills.
• Handled an action involving whether a trustee exceeded his powers in selling certain real property with quiet title, breach of contract, cancellation of written instrument and breach of contract involved.
• Handled an action involving certain covenants and restrictions related to a common interest development at a condominium complex by the beach.
• Handled an action to adjoining commercial landowners, a fast food chicken restaurant, and a strip mall and the building of a fence on a common driveway with trespass, nuisance and intentional interference with business relations claims, and claims of intimidation and physical altercations with customers.
• Handled action involving a condominium owner against the HOA and its insurer for damages caused after the entire complex was re-roofed and leaks occurred causing damage with breach of implied contract, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, concealment, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing and violation of Bus. & Prof. Code §17200.
• Tried an action regarding ownership of a home in Manhattan Beach between two former spouses, one living in Australia. COURT TRIAL.
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer action involving a sublet without landlord’s permission.
• Handled breach of commercial lease by restaurant for failure to pay rent.
• Tried an injunctive relief action involving a city’s tree and foliage trimming and view ordinances. COURT TRIAL
• Tried a residential unlawful detainer action.
• Handled an action involving a failure to complete land surveying and obtain conditional use permit due to numerous delays.
• Handled a breach of contract and fraud action involving the purchase of interests in buildings in Hollywood but partner did not pay in all amounts agreed to and then sold two of the buildings without consent after he was placed on title.
• Handled a breach of real estate sales contract and fraud action involving a failure to disclose termite damage, dry rot, mold from long term roof leak.
• Handled an action by a city against a homeowner make corrective repairs on a dilapidated home with numerous code violations and sale of home to pay for repairs undertaken by the city.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a failure to obtain permits for a sports court as a prerequisite to closing escrow.
• Handled a fraud and breach of contract action involving the joint ownership of a 4-unit apartment building wherein half the interest was assigned to son and daughter in law who then got other elderly owner to unknowingly sign over his interest too with additional claims for partition, conversion, accounting and constructive trust.
• Handled breach of residential remodel contract action in Redondo Beach for failure to pay all amounts due.
• Handled a breach of contract, fraud and declaratory relief action against a homeowner’s association involving approvals for a roof deck which were later changed by adding numerous use restrictions on the deck after a disagreement.
• Tried a declaratory and injunctive relief action involving neighbor medical suites and easements for pipes and wiring in the walls and ceiling to accommodate remodel. COURT TRIAL
• Tried a breach of contract and fraud action for inducing transfer of title of deed based upon promise to pay purchase price. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a nuisance and defamation action against a neighboring gym for making too much noise and cross action for battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled wrongful eviction action with additional claims for fraud and conspiracy to defraud.
• Handled an injunctive relief action to enforce requirements in a homeowner’s CC&Rs for uniform doors and windows.
• Handled a retaliatory eviction action for complaining about a handyman coming into an apartment without prior notice.
• Handled a negligence action for failure to prepare a lease with all provisions required against real estate agent.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease action or failure to pay rent.
• Handled a fraud and breach of a real estate sales agreement action involving termination of a lease and completion of improvements requested by buyer and lost income when buyer backed out of the deal after substantial sums paid for work.
• Handled a breach of a homeowner’s association’s CC&Rs action involving the failure to pay fees, with additional claims for declaratory relief regarding the validity of the association, its CC&Rs and assessments sought.
• Handled a breach of an HOA’s CC& Rs, injunctive relief and declaratory relief action to remove an unauthorized air conditioning unit from a roof which is not strong enough to support the weight.
• Handled a breach of lease and breach of a personal guaranty action for failure to pay over $207,000.
• Handled a breach of lease and FEHA violations action involving unauthorized entry onto leased premises, harassment of tenant and then eviction for complaining to the police.
• Handled a fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and negligence action involving an agent’s failure to disclose defects before close of escrow.
• Handled a nuisance and intentional infliction of emotional distress claim involving injuries caused by construction noise and dust.
• Tried a breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty action against a dual agent for failure to provide all real estate documents in a purchase of real property transaction and failure to have all documents translated into Spanish. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a nuisance and injunctive relief action for renting home for parties and events without permits and in violation of municipal codes.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease action.
• Handled an age and gender discrimination action against the county for dismissal from ocean lifeguard candidate program.
• Handled a fraud and conversion action involving a fraudulent signature on title through the assistance of a fraudulent notary.
• Handled an injunctive and declaratory relief action involving the placement of a washer and dryer in a condominium against the association’s CC&Rs.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease involving over $150,000 in rent owed.
• Handled a breach of a homeowner association’s CC&R’s for excessive noise.
• Handled a fraud action involving a property management agreement of a family owned apartment complex.
• Handled a breach of contract action amongst siblings for the purchase of real property with quiet title, declaratory relief, injunctive relief, breach of fiduciary duty and money lent claims.
• Handled an action seeking to reduce the number of votes required for changes to the CC&R’s of a homeowner’s association.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving an executive rental agreement and failure to pay rent.
• Handled an action involving a dispute over roadway access between two office buildings on Ventura Blvd with claims for quiet title, equitable easement, declaratory relief, nuisance, and intentional interference with contractual relations.
• Handled a nuisance abatement action brought by a city against the homeowners with subsequent sale to reimburse for expenses incurred n correcting code violations on the property located in Hawthorne.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease action for failure to disclose environmental restriction with additional claims for fraud, indemnity, and professional negligence against real estate agent.
• Handled a nuisance abatement action brought by a city against the homeowners with subsequent sale to reimburse for expenses incurred n correcting code violations on the property located in Hawthorne.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving injuries sustained from bed bugs and cockroaches and failure to fumigate, maintain and repair the premises located in downtown Los Angeles including a broken elevator
• Handled an action between family members regarding ownership rights to three properties one with eighteen units, the second with twenty units and the third with nine units in Los Angeles with claims for quiet title, breach of oral contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, accounting, battery and unjust enrichment.
• Handled unlawful detainer action after foreclosure sale.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease action involving leased automobile equipment that was not paid for with an additional claim for breach of a personal guaranty.
• Handled a breach of commercial lease action involving landlord failure to consent to sublease.
• Handled a forceable detainer action against children of decedent who at the time was hospitalized with a terminal illness and while his live-in girlfriend was visiting him in the hospital his children broke into the home and locked her out.
• Handled a partition action involving several real and personal property converted after death of girlfriend.
• Handled an action involving a dispute between adjacent landowners sharing a common driveway and access for their respective businesses.
• Handled breach of a residential retirement home contract for failure to make monthly payments for rent, meals and services.
• Handled an action involving a city that tried to force a homeowner to accept a design on her residential construction project.
• Handled an action involving the dissolution of a commercial property partnership with additional claims for accounting, and partition.
• Handled a fraud, breach of contract, predatory lending practices, and cancellation of instruments action involving qualification for two loans by a lender knowing that that the homeowner could not qualify for them and could not keep up with the payments.
• Handled a breach of contract, fraud and specific performance action involving an agreement to complete build out of new home as part of escrow and when completed the buyers backed out.
• Handled a family dispute between siblings regarding property ownership and proceeds percentages.
• Handled a trespass, declaratory relief and nuisance action against solicitors in front of a supermarket harassing customers.
• Handled a breach of lease action involving injuries sustained from a gas water heater explosion.
• Handled petition to reduce voting percentage need to approve changes to CC&Rs of a homeowner’s association.
• Handled an action involving the distribution of excess funds after a foreclosure sale on property located in Rancho Palos Verdes with numerous other creditors and claimants.
• Handled a professional negligence action against a real estate broker that obtained the requested second mortgage on a home in Inglewood but with unfavorable terms and a high percentage fee that were not disclosed.
• Handled an action involving disbursement of surplus funds after a nonjudicial foreclosure sale with several claimants.
• Handled a professional negligence action against a real estate broker who only provided one buyer who purchased the property at an under-market value price without disclosing a conflict of interest that the sole buyer was a friend.
• Handled a breach of a joint venture partnership agreement action with claims for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, accounting, quiet title and negligence.
• Handled an action brought by a city to force repairs for code violations and judicial foreclosure sale sought to pay for repairs.
• Handled a declaratory and injunctive relief action involving a grocery store seeking to enforce a covenant running with the land that no supermarket could be built on the adjacent parcel.
• Handed a breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud action involving the sale of commercial property by a dual agent and failure to disclose issues.
• Handled negligence and fraud action involving water damages to an adjacent condominium when a tankless water heater is installed in violation of the CC&Rs and leaks.
• Handled a breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and declaratory relief action for failure to enforce a homeowner associations CC&Rs against all owners.
• Handled a negligence and declaratory and injunctive relief action against homeowner’s association for failure to allow fumigation and failure to maintain proper bank accounts.
• Handled an action involving interpleaded funds from a foreclosure sale with multiple claimants.
• Handled a negligence, nuisance and intentional infliction of emotional distress action for firing a shotgun through an adjoining wall of a condominium unit.
• Handled a petition to deposit and disburse surplus funds from a sale of a Lawndale property.
• Handled an action involving deficiency amounts sought by an insurance company obtained in the payoff of a second deed of trust upon sale of property without paying on the first as a priority.
• Handled a conversion action involving an unauthorized and fraudulent draw on a letter of credit for the purchase of real estate.
• Handled a declaratory and injunctive relief involving an owner’s declaration that he would proceed with remodel of exterior and landscaping despite an association’s denial of the request in violation of the CC&Rs.
• Tried an action involving contamination of the water supply in another county with claims for professional negligence, negligent misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract.
• Handled an action involving a petition to reduce the percentage of voting required to amend a declaration of common interest development.
• Handled a subrogation action seeking amounts paid out to an insured regarding property damaged caused by a negligently installed water pipe by homeowner’s association.
• Handled an Unruh Civil Rights Act claim for failure to add Braille on keys at an ATM.
• Handled an action involving violations of the ADA at a small store in a strip mall where there was no ramp to travel from the parking lot up to the sidewalk.
• Handled an action involving violations of ADA requirements where the paper towel dispenser and mirror were too high for access by someone in a wheel chair.
• Handled a disability action involving whether a sink was too higher for access by someone in a wheelchair.
• Handled a disability action involving whether a mirror was too higher for access by someone in a wheelchair.
• Handled a disability action involving whether a paper towel dispenser was too higher for access by someone in a wheelchair.

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• Settled wrongful termination and retaliation action involving wage and hour claims and pregnancy discrimination and failure to accommodate claims.
• Settled wage and hour, and breach of contract claims action.
• Settled wrongful termination action.
• Settled wrongful termination action involving failure to accommodate disability.
• Settled a wrongful termination action involving age discrimination and PAGA claims.

• Settled employment action involving disability discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
• Settled employment dispute involving failure to pay overtime and provide meal and rest breaks.
• Settled employment action involving racial and sexual discrimination and harassment.
• Settled wrongful termination action involving PAGA claims.
• Settled wrongful termination action involving age and racial discrimination.
• Settled a wrongful termination action involving age discrimination and harassment.
• Settled wrongful termination and retaliation action involving unsafe working conditions, failure to pay for vacation and final wages.
• Handled an action involving an employment dispute with the Archdioceses including claims of breach of contract, slander, wrongful termination, and interference with economic advantage.
• Handled an employment dispute regarding slander per se, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress at an athletic shoe store.
• Handled three related actions involving claims of negligence and invasion of privacy between employees and the employer at a real estate brokerage company.
• Employee sued prior employer and supervisors for wrongful termination, age discrimination, misrepresentation and negligence. Jury Verdict.
• Handled an action involving wrongful termination with wage and hour claims and failure to pay overtime at a taxi cab company.
• Handled an action involving a former city employee against the city for violation of public policy and labor code in his termination.
• Handled a wrongful termination from an insurance agency action.
• Handled an action involving interference and termination of an employee based upon sex with FEHA, wrongful termination and Cal. Constitution, Art. I, § 8 claims.
• Handled a wrongful termination action at a small business.
• Tried a wrongful termination action involving sexual harassment and unlawful touching of a minor employee at a sporting goods store. Additional claims included sexual battery, negligent hiring, training and retention of unfit employee, defamation and libel.
• Tried an action involving wrongful termination, lost wages and additional damages for tuition to be retrained. Court trial.
• Handled a wrongful termination action by a teacher against the School District based upon discrimination in violation of FEHA.
• Handled a wrongful termination and retaliation action against a hospital by a former nurse/administrator for voicing concerns about patient care.
• Tried a wrongful termination action involving age and race discrimination.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving a laboratory director and claims of FEHA violation for national origin, religion, disparate treatment, retaliation, and hostile work environment.
• Handled a wrongful termination action stemming from religion and national origin discrimination with failure to pay wages, overtime and failure to provide rest and meal breaks.
• Handled a wrongful termination action based upon a failure to accommodate a disability – back and knee injuries doing janitorial services with additional claims for sexual harassment, breach of contract and government code violations.
• Handled a wrongful termination action.
• Handled an action involving wrongful termination involving a failure to accommodate a disability and ack of negative comments in job performance reviews before termination.
• Handled a wrongful termination action based on age discrimination. Against an aerospace company.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against the County.
• Handled a wrongful termination action with claims for violation of FEHA including failure to pay wages, overtime and failure to provide rest and meal periods.
• Handled a wrongful termination action brought by a waitress against a restaurant for failure to pay overtime, wages due upon termination and failure to provide meal and rest periods.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against a city based upon gender discrimination by fellow officers and superiors.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving failure to pay wages, overtime, meal and rest periods, but company claimed the termination was based upon a failure to report by police of to the aerospace employer and theft of gift cards.
• Handled a wrongful termination action from a market for failure to provide meal and rest periods, unfair business practices for illegal recordkeeping, waiting time penalties and age discrimination.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against a university for sexual and verbal abuse, sexual harassment by a superior and retaliation.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against a city involving disability discrimination and failure to accommodate with additional claims for violations of the FEHA and CLRA.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation with additional claims for defamation, hostile work environment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving disability discrimination and failure to accommodate after tumor surgery and need for additional time off.
• Handled a wrongful termination action as a medical assistant involving retaliation and harassment.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against a television network when television weather forecaster was passed over for promotion based on gender and age discrimination.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving age discrimination.
• Handled a wrongful termination of a store manager action involving age discrimination against a supermarket.
• Handled a wrongful termination action for failure t provide meal and rest periods, negligent misrepresentation and fraud.
• Handled a constructive termination action involving gender discrimination, harassment and hostile work environment.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against telecommunications company employer for failure to pay commissions for sales obtained with additional claims for unjust enrichment and declaratory relief.
• Handled a wrongful termination and fraud action of a founding member of a company and the looting of the company’s assts resulting in the company stock having no value with claims for breach of fiduciary duty, accounting, common counts.
• Handled a wrongful termination action of an order filler at a large sporting goods store with FEHA violation claims.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against telecommunications company employer for failure to pay commissions for sales obtained with additional claims for unjust enrichment and declaratory relief.
• Handled a wrongful termination action of an order filler at a large sporting goods store with FEHA violation claims.
• Handled an employment dispute involving adverse employment decisions and failures to promote in retaliation for complaints made to employer city and police department.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving retaliation for requests for time off.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving disability discrimination and failure to make a reasonable accommodation and retaliation.
• Handled a wrongful termination from a taxi company involving opposition to certain plans causing retaliation including a loss of membership in the company and removal from the board of directors.
• Handled a wrongful termination action for failure to pay overtime, wages and minimum wages due and failure to provide rest and meal breaks.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving failure to pay overtime and provide rest and meal periods.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving a Torrance residence and claims for HBOR violations.
• Handled a wrongful termination of a technical specialist in an IT Dept based upon race and age discrimination.
• Handled a wrongful termination action.
• Handled a wrongful termination action with FEHA claims.
• Handled a wrongful termination of an administrative assistant action involving retaliation for notifying of irregularities in funds and complaining about the award of scholarship money only to young men with claims for violation of FEHA.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving sexual harassment, racial discrimination and retaliation for complaining about mistreatment.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving age discrimination.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving FEHA claims for retaliation when made complaints about conduct of others at work.
• Handled a wrongful termination action of a store manager at a women’s clothing store with violation of FEHA claims for failure to pay overtime, failure to accommodate pregnancy needs and failure to provide meal and rest periods.
• Handled a wrongful termination action as a member of a private household staff involving sexual harassment, gender discrimination and retaliation for reporting the conduct and battery.
• Handled a wrongful termination action.
• Handled a wrongful termination action after pointing out inefficiencies and unsafe worksite conditions with whistleblower retaliation claim.
• Handled a copyright infringement, fraud and libel action involving comments made about infringement.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving a large sporting goods store in Riverside with claims for violations of FEHA.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving sexual harassment and gender discrimination.
• Handled a wrongful termination action with claims for violations of FEHA.
• Handled an employment action involving breach of statutory duties by city police where conversations were recorded at work without permission criticizing the police sergeant and retaliation occurred for those statements.
• Handled a sexual harassment and negligence action against a city and its police department for ongoing harassment and failure to take reasonable steps to prevent the harassment.
• Handled an unfair competition and wrongful denial of hospital privileges action against a hospital and a surgeon’s association who conspired to limit the competition in the south bay for a specialty type of surgeons by raising the surgery requirements.
• Handled an action involving a violation of an MOU and civil service rules regarding promotion examinations to the level of fire captain.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against a securities firm for hostile work environment, retaliation and defamation.
• Handled a wrongful termination action of an administrative assistant at an airline for age discrimination.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving sexual discrimination and harassment and retaliation for reporting the conduct.
• Handled a wrongful termination action with claims for FEHA violations.
• Handled a class action involving failure to provide rest and meal period, failure to pay overtime and wages upon termination.
• Handled a wrongful termination action.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against a construction company.
• Handled a wrongful termination action for failure to pay wages, overtime and provide rest and meal breaks.
• Handled a class action involving failure to pay overtime and wages upon termination and failure to provide meal and rest periods.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving disability discrimination and a failure to accommodate.
• Handled a wrongful termination action by a preschool teacher at a church involving disability discrimination and failure to accommodate.
• Handled a wrongful termination action with HBOR claims.
• Handled a wrongful termination action brought by an HR/payroll coordinator for pregnancy discrimination and hostile work environment.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving racial and disability discrimination, failure to accommodate the disability, retaliation and PAGA claims.
• Tried a wrongful termination action involving a failure to pay overtime and provide rest and meal breaks and whether the plaintiff was an exempt or nonexempt employee.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving disability discrimination and a failure to provide reasonable accommodations.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving disability discrimination and FEHA claims.
• Handled a class action involving the failure to provide meal and rest periods, and failure to pay wages upon termination.
• Handled a wrongful termination from hospital and residency program.
• Handled a class action involving a failure to pay overtime and wags due upon termination, failure to provide meal and rest period and unlawful deductions at an automobile retail sales business.
• Handled a wrongful termination action from a sports medicine clinic.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against phone company.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against a university.
• Handled a wrongful termination action for failure to pay for overtime, failure to pay wage when due, failure to provide meal and rest periods and retaliation for complaining.
• Handled a wrongful termination action against a hospital with claims for violations of FEHA and sexual harassment.
• Handled a wrongful termination action as a warehouse associate in a large furniture rental company.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving sexual harassment, retaliation for complaints, battery, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving claims for failure to pay waiting time penalties, overtime, and wages due upon termination and failure to provide meal and rest periods at a security company.
• Handled a wrongful termination and negligence action involving service of alcohol after hours to an under aged employee who is injured in an automobile accident after work, arrested and then terminated.
• Handled a class action involving failure to pay minimum wages and overtime wages, failure to pay waiting time and wage penalties, and failure to provide meal and rest break periods.
• Tried a wrongful termination action against a government contractor based upon age discrimination and retaliation for reporting recording of conversation at work and spying. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a wrongful termination action involving discrimination based upon religion with claims for FEHA violations.
• Handled a wrongful termination action form the position of fire engineer after complained to supervisors, but defense claims indicate termination due to sexual battery at a night club outside of work.
• Handled a class action involving breach of employment contract and PAGA claims.
• Handled class action involving the misclassification of employees as independent contractors resulting in a failure to pay all wages owed, failure to provide meal and rest periods failure to provide roll records and failure to provide itemized wage statements.
• Handled a class action involving an employment dispute at an Orange County hotel.
• Handled a class action for failure to pay for overtime wages, failure to pay terminated employees at a transit company.
• Handled a class action involving wage and hour claims.
• Handled a class action based upon sex-based discrimination in a price promotion for discounted greens fees at a private golf club.
• Handled a class action involving HBOR violations.
• Handled a class action involving the failure to pay overtime, minimum wages and failure to provide meal and rest breaks at an aerospace company.
• Handled a class action involving seminars targeted at distressed homeowners facing foreclosures and representations that attendees would be able to secure loan modifications and avoid foreclosure.
• Handled a class action involving PAGA claims.
• Handled a class action involving a failure to pay overtime and violation of Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200.
• Handled a class action for PAGA claims.
• Handled a class action involving a failure to pay overtime and wages, and a failure to provide rest and meal periods.
• Handled a class action involving PAGA claims.
• Handled a class action involving Labor Code violations.
• Handled a class action for wage and hour claims.
• Handled an employment dispute regarding failure to provide meal and rest periods, failure to pay overtime and waiting penalties, retaliation for demotion, discrimination based upon race and disability.
• Handled an employment action involving claims for discrimination based on sax, race and age.
• Handled an employment action against a utility company for failure to pay overtime and failure to provide rest and meal breaks.
• Handled an employment action of an order filler against a sporting goods store for discrimination based upon race, age, disability, and gender with claims of violations of FEHA – failure to provide meal and rest breaks, failure to pay overtime.
• Tried bifurcated phase one court trial on alter ego and phase two jury trial on remaining issue of breach of the employment agreement. COURT TRIAL AND JURY TRIAL
• Handled an employment action involving a city’s failure to follow internal grievance procedures before imposing discipline.
• Handled an employment dispute involving PAGA claims. Including failure to pay overtime, wages and provide itemized wage statements.
• Handled an employment action involving failure to pay overtime and failure to provide rest and meal periods.
• Handled an employment action involving retaliation, defamation, and wage and hour claims.
• Handled an employment action involving exposure to hazardous chemicals at work which resulted in asthma and other respiratory problems with claims for fraud, breach of express and implied warranty and violation of Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200.
• Handled an employment action involving retaliation, lost wages, and discrimination for reporting theft and misappropriations at work.
• Handled an employment discrimination action based upon gender, and age with constructive termination claim due to lack of possibility of advancement in company.
• Handled a wrongful termination action of an on-site property manager involving disability and age discrimination and a failure to pay all wages due.
• Handled an action against the city and police department for wrongful termination of two officers who helped other officers understand and enforce their administrative and procedural rights.
• Handled a wrongful termination and breach of a commission contract action involving negotiations with a school district which after the deal was completed the agent was fired and not paid any commission.
• Handled an employment action involving unpaid wages at a wholesale food company.
• Handled employment action involving denial of request by police officers with back injuries to use lighter weight vests with claims for violations of FEHA for failure to provide reasonable accommodation and disability discrimination.
• Handled an employment action by a case manager for failure to pay overtime and waiting time penalties and failure to provide meal and rest periods at a law firm.
• Handled an employment dispute involving a failure to pay wages and overtime and failure to provide meal and rest periods.
• Handled a negligence and retaliation action involving injuries suffered by the intentional exposure to tear gas and racial discrimination at a fire department training facility.
• Handled a sexual harassment action at work with claims of race and gender discrimination, retaliation and failure to engage in the interactive process.
• Handled a Labor Code violations action for failure to provide tools necessary to perform work a failure to reimburse for money expended to purchase required tools and PAGA claims.
• Handled an action involving FEHA violations, discrimination and a failure to accommodate at a city.

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• Settled a negligence action involving a rear end collision at high speed into a car stopped at a light.
• Settled a sexual battery and negligence action involving an attack on a patient at a hospital by a worker.
• Settled a negligence action involving personal injuries sustained during a fight at a middle school against the attacker, a school district, and teachers.
• Settled negligence action involving an automobile accident on the 405 freeway.
• Settled a product liability action involving side effects from a prescription drug.

• Settled a products liability and negligence action involving single car rollover involving faulty brakes or faulty installation of brakes
• Settled a battery and negligence action involving an attack in a parking structure.
• Settled an automobile accident at an intersection.
• Settled a wrongful death action involving an accident at the workplace.
• Handled and Settled an action involving an automobile collision at intersection.
• Handled automobile collision with a rent-a-car. Negligence and breach of contract issues. Motion for Summary Judgment granted on statute of limitations grounds.
• Tried a wrongful death action involving exposure to asbestos at the workplace. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a commercial unlawful detainer at a large shopping mall in the South Bay.
• Handled a wrongful death action involving the shooting of a young man in front of his mother two houses away from his home and in her presence.
• Handled a wrongful death action involving exposure to chemicals in adhesives at work.
• Tried wrongful death action involving exposure to asbestos dust clouds at work at a water company where pipes were wrapped in materials containing asbestos. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a wrongful death action where decedent’s jacket got caught on a post hole digger with negligence, products liability, premises liability, failure to obtain worker’s compensation insurance claims.
• Handled action involving worksite injury regarding scaffolding. Negligent supervision, hiring and control issues.
• Handled action involving claims stemming from burglary and vandalism. Motion for Summary Judgment was granted on the issue of course and scope of employment as to the corporate defendant.
• Handled an action involving an Injury on premises adjacent to the Great Western Forum – Issues involved ownership, possession and control. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
• Handled a multiple automobile-involved collision. Causation issue. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
• Handled an action involving a pedestrian hit by catering truck at LAX. Workers compensation, negligence, and contributory negligence issues.
• Handled wrongful death action involving a pedestrian killed while crossing the street at LAX.
• Handled action involving injury at LAX by cart driver. Issues involved equipment defects, scope of employment, and negligent hiring, supervision and training.
• Handled action involving personal injury to student caused during a fight at school with another student. School district, parents, teachers sued for negligence, failure to warn, foreseeability, and negligent hiring, supervision.
• Handled automobile accident causing personal injuries at a red light.
• Handled action involving injuries sustained while pedestrian crossing the street in marked crosswalk. Issues regarding failure to provide a traffic signal at the crosswalk, failure to provide adequate warnings or signs, and failure to provide adequate parking. Key issues were whether the claim was timely filed and adequate to encompass all of Plaintiff’s claims with the city.
• Handled a personal injury action involving a high school trip and injuries sustained when a student dove into an empty swimming pool. Breach of contract and negligence in lack of supervision and control.
• Handled an action involving personal injuries caused by an attack in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant.
• Handled a wrongful death action involving an automobile action with claims of product liability for defective brakes against the automobile manufacturer, and the City and County for maintaining unsafe and poorly marked roadway conditions.
• Handled an action involving personal injuries suffered when plaintiff tripped on a crack in the sidewalk on city property.
• Handled an action involving an automobile accident and injuries to both parties.
• Handled an action involving personal injuries caused by a fellow employee at the worksite.
• Handled a personal injury action brought on behalf of a minor child and parents caused by another child.
• Handled an action involving a four-vehicle accident on the 405 freeway with resulting injuries to drivers and/or passengers in each car.
• Handled an action involving a two-car accident at an intersection wherein defendant turned left and plaintiff was driving through the intersection.
• Tried an action involving an automobile accident.
• Handled a personal injury action stemming from a fight that started in a breach city bar and spilled out into the sidewalk. Additional claims against the city and police department during the subsequent arrest for excessive force.
• Tried a personal injury action stemming from an automobile accident on Hawthorne Blvd. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a wrongful death action involving an elderly patient at a convalescent home.
• Handled a personal injury action involving the failure of the brakes on a rent-a-car.
• Handled a personal injury action involving a bicycling accident. The main issue was whether the plan and design of the roadway were negligent and Plaintiffs accident was foreseeable.
• Handled an action involving a wrongful death from a boating accident with breach of implied warranty, breach of contract, and declaratory relief claims against the boat manufacturer and the retailer.
• Handled an action involving personal injuries caused by a physical altercation on an airplane mid-flight.
• Tried an action involving messages left on an answering machine which were heard by plaintiff’s wife. Claims included slander and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Court trial.
• Tried an automobile accident personal injury case.
• Tried automobile accident action involving three vehicles.
• Handled an action involving an automobile accident and product liability claims for faulty brakes.
• Handled an action involving injuries sustained by a patron using the employee bathroom, against store policy, by a third party with negligence and failure to protect patrons.
• Handled a personal injury action stemming from a vehicle vs. vehicle accident.
• Handled an action involving a minor injury while in foster care.
• Handled an action involving battery at the workplace and injuries at a drug store.
• Handled wrongful death action dive company that certified a diver who died during an unsupervised shore dive.
• Handled a wrongful death elder abuse action at a skilled nursing facility where the decedent was a known fall risk, but precautions were not taken to safeguard her from harm.
• Handled a wrongful death and negligence action against a homeowner’s association for a double fatality caused by fire that started in a condominium where marijuana was being smoked.
• Handled a wrongful death action involving asbestos exposure at workplace while working with products containing asbestos.
• Tried a wrongful death action involving exposure to asbestos dust on husband’s and son’s work clothes when laundered the clothes on daily basis. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a wrongful death action involving a small aircraft crash and negligence in refueling and maintenance.
• Handled a wrongful death, negligence and premises liability action involving a bar serving alcohol to a patron after hours and not preventing him from driving when he was visibly intoxicated and could not drive.
• Tried a personal injury action involving a vehicle vs. vehicle accident.
• Handled an action involving a dog bite of a neighbor when the dog escaped his yard.
• Handled an action involving injuries sustained while on a vacation abroad against travel agency and hotel.
• Handled an action involving a fight between students at a school with claims of negligent supervision and control and battery.
• Handled an action involving an automobile accident at an intersection causing injuries.
• Handled a personal injury action involving a racially motivated attack at a school against the assailant, teachers, the principal, the school, and the school district. Violations of 42 U.S.C. §1942, Civil Code §51, battery, and negligent supervision and control were the main claims.
• Handled a wrongful death action involving an automobile accident on Palos Verdes Drive South in Rancho Palos Verdes and the key issue was whether the driver was working during the course and scope of his employment when the accident occurred.
• Handled a wrongful death, negligence and breach of contract action involving a helicopter crash in the Philippines.
• Handled a wrongful death action involving a helicopter crash in Los Angeles County.
• Handled a wrongful death action involving ingestion of raw shellfish at a restaurant.
• Tried a wrongful death, negligence, product liability, and breach of warranty action involving the ingestion of a prescribed death that caused adverse reactions and death.
• Handled a wrongful death, product liability, premises liability and negligence action involving injuries sustained when the decedent’s jacket got caught in a machine and he was crushed.
• Handled a wrongful death and negligence action involving an infant taken by child services who later died from bleeding on the brain caused by “shaken baby syndrome.”
• Handled a wrongful death and product liability action involving exposure to asbestos.
• Handled a wrongful death and negligence action involving a motorcycle hit by a car.
• Handled a wrongful death, negligence, fraud., breach of warranties and strict liability involving a n airplane crash in Laughlin Nevada after a fire erupted after impact but before occupants could escape the airplane.
• Handled a wrongful death and negligence action involving a boy killed while riding his bicycle when struck by a tractor-trailer combination moving truck.
• Handled a wrongful death and negligence action involving a Volvo that clipped the tire of a lawfully parked Freightliner FLC120, lost control and crashed into oncoming traffic.
• Handled a wrongful death, premises liability and negligence action stemming from an attack at a mini mall.
• Handled an action involving sexual battery, negligence, and violation of the Bane Act when a security officer molested female employees.
• Handled an action against school district for battery, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and false imprisonment of a student when a teacher slapped the student and prevented him from leaving.
• Handled a sexual battery and negligence action against a business that treats children with emotional issues where child is placed in a room with an older roommate who molests and threatens him.
• Handled a negligence and battery action involving a shot fired through a gate when heard a noise instead of calling 911.
• Handled an action involving molestation of a 5-year old child by older children at a preschool with claims for sexual battery, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled an action involving the use of excessive force during an arrest for being drunk in public in Hermosa Beach with additional claims for negligence and battery.
• Handed a negligence and battery action involving molestation injuries sustained at a church.
• Handled a battery and false imprisonment action against a security company whose uniformed employee pointed a gun at plaintiff after plaintiff caught him going through his car without his permission.
• Handled a sexual assault action involving a special needs student attached by another student with additional claims for negligence and breach of mandatory duty against the school district.
• Handled a sexual assault action involving a construction worker at plaintiff’s home on a remodel job who assaults one of the children there.
• Handled a battery action where a photographer is injured by a member of a pop star’s entourage at LAX with additional claims for negligent supervision, vicarious liability and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a breach of contract action for consulting services performed but not paid for.
• Handled battery, sexual harassment and negligence action involving the placing of crude stickers on a surgical patient and taking photographs while under anesthesia.
• Handled an uninsured motorist subrogation action.
• Tried an action brought by an attorney against a client for battery where client unhappy with representation in underlying matter. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the manufacture and sale of gas compressors which were delivered but were never paid for.
• Handled a battery and negligent supervision action involving injuries to a child sustained during a fight at school.
• Handled a sexual battery action involving a minor.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained by a passenger on a bus after a crash with another vehicle.
• Handled negligence, excessive force, and battery action involving injuries sustained when grabbed by police and forced to the ground.
• Tried an action involving battery on a former spouse. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a false imprisonment, battery and negligence action against a psychiatric hospital for holding an individual against her will or consent.
• Handled an excessive force action against a city and police department for abuse of process, libel and slander during altercation with police.
• Handled an elder abuse and negligence action for injuries sustained when patient fell out of bed because the bed railings were not in an up position and the patient suffered severe head trauma, and neurosurgery performed.
• Handled a battery and negligence action involving an injury to a student while on campus at a high school.
• Handled a battery and negligence action involving a student injured during bullying incidents, then threated by a teacher, and failure of school to act.
• Handled a defamation, slander and battery action involving a fight on a plane and misinformation given to police about who started the fight and what happened after plane made an emergency landing.
• Handled a battery and false imprisonment action involving a neighbor attorney who struck his neighbor for stepping onto his property.
• Handled a battery and breach of contract action involving threats to customers and disruption of business by former employee.
• Handled a battery and negligence action involving injuries sustained by a photographer who was pursuing two actors to take a photograph of their child when he was pushed to the ground by an empty baby seat at LAX.
• Handled excessive force and battery action against the city and police department.
• Handled a battery and negligence action involving injuries sustained from a punch in the face while retrieving luggage at a downtown bus terminal.
• Handled a sexual battery, negligent supervision, and intentional infliction of emotional distress action involving developmentally disabled students molested by other students.
• Handled battery, false arrest and imprisonment, and negligence action involving injuries sustained while evading police.
• Handled a sexual battery and negligence action at the workplace.
• Handled a battery and negligence action against the county and deputies for injuries sustained while in custody at a jail.
• Handled a sexual battery and negligence action involving a construction worker’s sexual assault of two children living at the home where construction was performed.
• Handled a battery, sexual harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, dependent abuse, and negligence action involving teachers at a high school.
• Handled an assault, battery false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress action involving a parking lot attendant who confronted plaintiff, called the police, and had him arrested and taken in to custody without cause.
• Handled a wrongful detention, battery, excessive force and intentional infliction of emotional distress action against the city and its police department.
• Handled a battery, accounting, voluntary dissolution, and injunctive relief action involving ownership of an Azusa restaurant when a co-owner.
• Tried a battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress action involving injuries sustained when the host of a reality show punched, threw a bottle and threw an electronic tablet during the filming of that reality show.
• Handled an action involving excessive force during an arrest leading to personal injuries. Violations of 42 U.S.C. §1983, negligent hiring, training, and supervision. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
• Handled excessive force during arrest action leading to personal injuries. Motion for Summary Judgment granted as to Police Chief only because was not hired at the time of the incident.
• Handled excessive force during an altercation at a guitar store when trying to break up the fight.
• Handled an action involving excessive force during an arrest with claims involving 42 U.S.C. § 1942 and negligence.
• Handled an excessive force action involving the arrest and detention of plaintiff based upon a misidentification by the victim and witness.
• Handled an action against a city and police department for use of excessive force, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress during a body search.
• Handled negligence and excessive force action against the city and police department.
• Handled negligence and use of excessive force action against city and its police department involving injuries sustained by a 68-year old woman when police entered her home looking for a suspect.
• Handled an action involving a sexual assault at a large mall and the security and police departments failure to investigate or take any action with additional claims intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence.
• Handled a breach of contract action against an insurer after plaintiff was injured in an accident involving a utility pole but the issue was whether there was a policy purchased.
• Handled a negligence action involving a two-vehicle accident at Manchester and Sepulveda Blvds.
• Tried an action involving asbestos exposure from washing husband’s work clothes covered in asbestos dust. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a neighbor dispute action involving water damage to property with claims for nuisance, trespass and declaratory relief.
• Handled a negligence action involving a passenger on a city bus who was injured when the bus collided with another vehicle.
• Handled negligence and breach of contract action against a condominium association and the neighbor when a water heater burst causing significant water damage to his condominium.
• Handled a negligence action involving a motor vehicle accident in which the driver was intoxicated and speeding at the time of the crash.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action involving injuries caused by bed bugs in a hotel room.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries suffered at a residential remodel project where plaintiff fell off a ladder due to faulty scaffolding.
• Handled an action involving stalking allegations against a doctor post-surgery with claims for negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil harassment.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries caused when a county bus driver applied the brakes and plaintiff fell out of her seat on to the floor.
• Handled an action involving sexual assault at a church with additional claims for sexual harassment, negligent retention and supervision, failure to warn and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a negligence action involving passenger injured on a shuttle bus at LAX after collision with another vehicle.
• Handled a negligence action for third degree burns suffered by plaintiff when cheese and toppings from his pizza fell on his leg from a “pizza tube” cone supplied by defendant’s food truck.
• Handled a negligence action involving a cycling accident when the front wheel hit the metal base of a sign protruding from the asphalt.
• Handled a negligence action involving the failure to prosecute a victim’s assailant.
• Tried a negligence action involving injuries sustained in a two-car accident on the 10 freeway.
• Tried an elder abuse, unjust enrichment, and negligence action involving changes to the beneficiary designation on life insurance policies from ex-wife and daughter to sister after decedent already diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained when a ramp broke on a para-transport vehicle causing plaintiff to fall.
• Handled a negligence action involving a two-vehicle accident between a Range Rover and a Toyota pickup at an intersection.
• Tried action involving assault with a vehicle, threats and harassment stemming from complaints to police about operating an auto repair business out of his home garage without permits or a license. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a negligence action involving an automobile accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving an accident between a truck and an automobile.
• Handled a negligence action involving a rear-end automobile accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained at LAX when a chair collapsed.
• Handled a negligence action involving an automobile accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained by a cyclist when his front tire hit a metal stub in the roadway.
• Handled a subrogation action seeking amounts paid out to an insured for injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries suffered in an automobile accident when the other driver was driving under the influence and fled the scene.
• Handled a negligence action involving an automobile and bus collision on the 405 freeway with implications of possible insurance fraud.
• Handled a negligence action against a city for injuries sustained when hit by a city bus while a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
• Handled a subrogation action brought by an insurer against a cab driver that hit an insured.
• Tried a negligence action involving a dog biting the neighbor’s dog after it got lose from its yard. COURT TRIAL.
• Handled a negligence action against a health club that failed to assist a member in cardiac arrest which resulted in permanent brain damage.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained in an auto versus plumbing truck accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained by a cyclist when he hit speed cushions/bumps in the roadway placed there by the city to reduce the speed of vehicle, lost control of his bicycle and crashed.
• Tried a negligence action involving injuries sustained in an automobile versus County automobile collision. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a sexual assault action involving an eight-year old boy assaulted by a fourteen-year old boy who had a history of predatory behavior and no precautions were taken after he was convicted in delinquency court and returned to school.
• Handled an injury that occurred at a South Bay beach against the city and whether the claim was timely.
• Handled negligence and breach of contract action against car leasing company for failure to properly maintain vehicles causing an accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving an accident in the HOV land of the 405 freeway when plaintiff had to stop because the hood of the vehicle flew open and the driver behind him rear-ended him.
• Handled a negligence and dangerous condition of public property action involving injuries sustained when a cyclist’s front tire became lodged in a crack in the roadway in Rancho Palos Verdes causing serious injuries.
• Handled an action involving a two-car accident with permanent paralysis injuries.
• Handled a negligence action for injuries sustained when a scooter was hit by four-wheel drive vehicle.
• Tried a defamation action involving bad reviews made on an Internet ratting site of a dentist that never treated the defendants as retaliation for his locking his gate which led to his private parking lot denying them access to it. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a negligence action involving a single car tip over in snow where repairs improperly performed causing an accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries during a scuba dive.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained when a pedestrian was hit by a rental car shuttle bus at LAX.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained when passenger in a cab stepped out of the cab and was struck by the open door of the cab as the cab drove away.
• Handled a negligence action against the city involving damage to a boat caused by a dangerous condition which allowed the boat to break free of its pilings at a wharf.
• Handled a negligence action involving an automobile accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained from a fall from a ladder attached to a roof access system which was not Cal-OSHA compliant.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained in an auto versus auto accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries sustained while a passenger in an UBER during an accident with another vehicle.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries caused by an electrical discharge at an electrical maintenance project for failure to de-energize the cables at the work site.
• Handled an action involving negligence, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a battery and negligence action involving a fight and injuries sustained - stayed pending a criminal action.
• Handled false imprisonment and racial discrimination action involving detention by store manager and police on suspicion of using a stolen credit card.
• Handled an action for injuries caused by a denial of an inter-district permit from the school district.
• Handled an action involving an accident between a vehicle and a train and whether the claim was timely filed and encompassed all of the claims alleged.
• Handled an action involving violation of the Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act and Violation of the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for reporting plaintiff’s credit and personal information which led to identity theft.
• Handled a conversion and theft action for towing an Audi A6 without consent.
• Handled a negligence action involving property damage.
• Handled an unjust enrichment and abuse of process action involving the levy on a third-party account to pay judgment and the seizing of that money by sheriff to pay off a different judgment in another case.
• Tried negligence action involving faulty tax return preparation by accountant and negligence in the sale of stock and capital gains issues. COURT TRIAL
• Handled professional negligence and negligent misrepresentation claim action against an insurance broker asked to purchase insurance with theft coverage and when theft occurred there were no theft provisions in the policy obtained.
• Handled a trespass to chattels, conversion, and violation of the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collections Practices Act action where vehicle payments were up-to-date, but vehicle repossessed.
• Handled a negligence action involving the failure to give notice of a probate action to a creditor of decedent.
• Handled intentional interference with business relations action against former cab driver to enjoin him from reentering the cab terminal and threatening and harassing other car drivers and guests.
• Handled an Unruh Act action involving advertisements for $2 champagne drinks all night for a Wednesday Ladies night at a bar by a male patron who was refused the drink special price because he was not a woman.
• Handled an action seeking sums from the victims of corporate fraud compensation fund.
• Handled a malicious prosecution action involving fees incurred in underlying family law matter.
• Handled negligence action against a city involving the impounding and sale of a van that plaintiff lived in without cause.
• Handled an action involving a claim that plaintiff’s constitutional and civil rights were violated.
• Handled a subrogation action against third parties for amounts paid to the insured for injuries in a vehicle accident.
• Handled a subrogation action against third parties for amounts paid on property damage in Torrance.
• Handled a subrogation action involving an automobile action insurance payout of over $42,000.
• Handled a subrogation action involving an insurance payout for cooking fire damage caused by third party at insured’s home.
• Handled an action involving personal injury caused by slip and fall after use of leaning substance on the floor and lack of cones or signage. Product liability, failure to warn, and negligence issues.
• Tried an action involving the manufacture and sale of CD’s with a construction kit. Breach of contract, waiver by not agreeing to a reasonable substitute. Court trial.
• Handled an action involving a product liability claim in the design, manufacture and sale of a GPS product which malfunctioned with negligence, breach of contract and strict liability claims.
• Handled a products liability, fraud and negligence action involving exposure to chemical at work causing cancer.
• Handled a products liability, negligence and premises liability action involving the amputation of an arm caused by a malfunction in the equipment used.
• Handled a subrogation action involving negligence and strict products liability claims involving a defective plastic supply line that was manufactured, delivered and installed and broke causing water damage.
• Tried a negligence and product liability action involving exposure to asbestos packing materials at the workplace. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a negligence, products liability action involving a five-year old who is injured by an elevator door.
• Handled a negligence and product liability action for failure to warn about side effects of a drug.
• Tried a negligence and product liability action involving exposure to asbestos at the workplace.
• Handled a product liability and negligence action against a motorcycle manufacturer for injuries sustained when the “stator” malfunctioned and caused an accident.
• Handled strict liability and negligence action for injuries sustained from exposure to toxic chemicals at work.
• Handled a negligence and products liability action involving brakes on a Honda Odyssey locking up on the 405 freeway causing action.
• Handled a subrogation action involving payment for fire damage caused by a defective television against the manufacturer of the television for negligence and products liability.
• Handled a negligence and products liability action involving a vehicle rollover accident.
• Handled a negligence action involving side effects suffered from taking a prescription drug with claims for products liability, breach of express and implied warranty, fraud and violation of Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200.
• Handled a products liability action involving injuries sustained from prolonged exposure to a chemical gardening spray.
• Handled negligence and products liability action involving a faulty electronic stability control system which caused a vehicle accident.
• Handled a breach of contract, negligence and products liability action for delivery of defective extrusion equipment for making pipes.
• Handled a products liability and negligence action involving head on collision and serious injuries caused by a defective seatbelt.
• Handled a products liability, fraud and negligence action involving exposure to chemical at work causing cancer.
• Handled a products liability, negligence and premises liability action involving the amputation of an arm caused by a malfunction in the equipment used.
• Handled a subrogation action involving negligence and strict products liability claims involving a defective plastic supply line that was manufactured, delivered and installed and broke causing water damage.
• Tried a negligence and products liability action involving exposure to asbestos packing materials at the workplace. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a negligence, products liability action involving a five-year old who is injured by an elevator door.
• Handled a negligence and products liability action for failure to warn about side effects of a drug.
• Tried a negligence and products liability action involving exposure to asbestos at the workplace.
• Handled a products liability and negligence action against a motorcycle manufacturer for injuries sustained when the “stator” malfunctioned and caused an accident.
• Handled a strict liability and negligence action for injuries sustained from exposure to toxic chemicals at work.
• Handled a negligence and products liability action involving brakes on a Honda Odyssey locking up on the 405 freeway causing action.
• Handled a subrogation action involving payment for fire damage caused by a defective television against the manufacturer of the television for negligence and products liability.
• Settled a premises liability and negligence action involving serious injuries stemming from a dog mauling a child’s face and upper body and a parent trying to separate the dog from his child.
• Settled premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall in the parking lot of a shopping mall.
• Settled a trip and fall action involving a trip on a cement bumper at the front of an open parking space in a parking structure.
• Handled an action involving the negligent use of a tug in a restricted area causing personal injury, control issues.
• Handled action involving physical attack on premises causing personal injury - lack of foreseeability and duty to hire security issues.
• Handled an action involving the negligent use of a tug in a restricted area causing personal injury, control issues.
• Handled action involving physical attack on premises causing personal injury - lack of foreseeability and duty to hire security issues.
• Handled an action involving Injuries sustained on property where construction materials and equipment were present. Issues of dangerous condition, contributory negligence and governmental immunity.
• Tried an action involving an injury at a condominium complex. Liability of the homeowner’s association, security company. Jury verdict.
• Handled action involving injuries to a shopper after a criminal attack. Negligence and foreseeability of the mall owners were key issues. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
• Handled an action involving a slip and fall causing injuries at a market. Negligence and foreseeability were the main issues.
• Handled an involving slip and fall on spilled liquid causing personal injuries at a warehouse store.
• Handled action involving a slip and fall in parking lot on o near church grounds.
• Handled a premises liability action involving a slip and fall at a corporate office.
• Handled a premises liability action involving a slip and fall in the entryway of a large office building resulting in personal injuries.
• Tried a premises liability action where bee sting caused an allergic reaction requiring hospitalization and whether owner knew of the existing bee hive. Jury Trial.
• Handled premises liability action involving injuries from a fall on an unpainted sloping curb.
• Tried a premises liability action involving injuries sustained from a fall in a mall parking lot. Jury trial.
• Handled a premises liability action involving a slip and fall on liquid at a market.
• Handled an action involving a premises liability action where slip and fall occurred in the parking lot of a horse racing facility.
• Handled an action involving personal injuries suffered from tripping on a raised sidewalk caused by tree roots with issues of foreseeability.
• Handled a neighbor dispute involving load music ad the use of foul language with claims of nuisance, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled slip and fall injury at Los Angeles Airport. Breach of lease, Premises liability and foreseeability issues.
• Handled insurance subrogation action stemming from premises liability and negligence claim for water damage caused by a ceiling leak from a chicken restaurant down to a coffee shop.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a trip on a raised sidewalk caused by the roots of a Magnolia tree with claims against both the city and adjacent homeowner.
• Handled a premises liability action involving a trip and fall on a brick walkway between two properties with spinal cord injury requiring two surgeries.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a fall on a wheelchair ramp in a large shopping mall parking lot.
• Handled premises liability action involving fall through hole in a balcony of a rented apartment.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall on a slippery substance on the floor of a supermarket.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving the trip and fall on a sidewalk in front of a residential property ad whether city or residential property owner was responsible.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall on oil in the parking lot of a hospital.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries sustained from an explosion while using a scissor lift on an exhaust duct.
• Handled a negligence and premises liability action involving injuries sustained by a building inspector in Rancho Palos Verdes who fell through on a faulty pathway and stairs.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a perpetrator photographing women in the changing room at a large department store with additional claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries from a concrete wall that was not properly secured and fell on a worker at a construction site for a sporting goods store in a mall.
• Handled premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall in the wet common area after sprinklers were running.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall as left an elevator in a Hawthorne office building.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries at a coin-operated laundromat.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving unsafe flooring.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action for injury caused by trip on uneven concrete sidewalk against city.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a trip and fall on asphalt ramp at commercial property in Montebello.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a wrist fracture caused by a minor’s hand being caught in an escalator.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a home invasion robbery and kidnapping at an apartment complex.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries sustained from a slip and fall on a wet surface in the garden section of a large construction supply company.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries sustained from infestation of bed bugs at a hotel in Hollywood.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence claim involving slip and fall injuries at a shopping mall.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries sustained when a metal gate at an apartment complex fell.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action for injuries suffered by a trip and fall over rolled asphalt at a university construction site that did not provide proper lighting.
• Handled a negligence and premises liability claim involving an individual who gained unauthorized access to a room and fell out of the window on the 11th floor onto a person on the hotel premises who is now a paraplegic.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall on a slippery substance on the floor of a gym.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall in the shower.
• Handled a fraud, premises liability and negligence action involving misidentification of steel manufacturing company as the source of electrical brown outs.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries sustained by bed bug infestation.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a knee injury when exiting a weight lifting machine at a gym.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries sustained during a long term stay at a hotel and exposure to mold.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action for injuries sustained in a parking lot.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries sustained when tripped on private property.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action against a hotel for injuries sustained when slipped and fell on a dance floor.
• Handled a negligence and premises liability action involving brain injuries sustained when a false column fell.
• Handled a premises liability, breach of lease and negligence action involving injuries caused by exposure to high levels of mold due to long term leaking which was not repaired properly.
• Handled a negligence and premises liability action involving a trip and fall down the stairs from a stage into the orchestra pit at a hotel during a beauty pageant.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving traumatic brain injuries sustained from fall on the wet surface of some stairs after a carpet cleaning without warnings or cones.
• Handled a negligence and premises liability action involving injuries incurred from a fall from a hotel stage.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving an injury suffered at a gym.
• Handled premises liability and negligence action involving a minor’s injuries caused when her foot got caught in the moving palates of the walkway at LAX.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injury on the grounds of a private school.
• Tried a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries sustained when a passenger’s foot stepped into a lowered well on the side of the jetway and fell.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving an automobile accident caused by an unmarked one-way only exit.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a trip and fall on a floor mounted electrical outlet in the carpet.
• Handled a premises liability action involving injuries stemming from soaked ceiling tiles falling on a minor’s head.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall on a hotel property causing loss of teeth, fractured foot and a concussion.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving damage caused when a tree fell on a vehicle parked beneath it.
• Handled an action for negligence and premises liability involving fall at a business.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a machinist whose hand got caught in a metal milling machine without a protective safety guard.
• Handled a premises liability, fraud and breach of lease action involving injuries caused by water leaks and exposure to toxic mold at an El Segundo property.
• Handled a premises liability action involving a slip and fall injury caused by dangerous conditions in the design and construction of a residential community.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving injuries to a minor caused by exposure to lead at a school.
• Handled a premises liability, negligence and dangerous condition on public property action involving injuries sustained during a slip and fall accident on the sidewalk on Hawthorne Blvd.
• Handled a premises liability and negligence action involving a slip and fall on a coat hanger left on the floor of a department store.
• Handled a premises and negligence action involving injuries when cut by a knife with the conversion of over $10,000 in jewelry.

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• Settled a portion of a construction defect action involving electrical work performed and completed at a large estate.
• Settled a construction defect action involving a faulty roof on a business that caused significant water damage to several commercial tenants.
• Settled breach of contract and negligence action involving plumbing services provided and failure to pay for those services.
• Handled a breach of construction contract for failure to timely provide goods and services.
• Handled a case involving a nitrogen oxide reduction system. Negligence, breach of contract, unfair business practices, and warranty of fitness involved.

• Handled a case involving destruction of construction improvements, violation of CC&Rs, failure to exhaust administrative remedies, and failure to allow contractor opportunity to repair an alleged construction defect.
• Handled construction breach of contract dispute on a commercial property with multiple liens, subcontractor claims, nonpayment.
• Handled action involving the enforcement of a settlement in an underlying construction dispute.
• Handled action involving defective construction of a condominium complex. Breach of contract, failure to pay progress payments among the issues.
• Handled action involving reimbursements and tax deductions for construction repairs made and whether the repair work violated municipal codes.
• Handled an action involving breach of a construction contract where work was not completed and claim for conversion of money prepaid for work not completed or work was not completed properly.
• Handled an action involving a residential construction contract and the failure to timely complete the work including negligent concrete and plumbing work after all monies were paid by homeowner with claims of breach of contract, conversion, constructive trust, breach of written and oral contract and negligence claims.
• Handled an action involving a slip and fall on white powder debris left at the construction site between the property owner, subcontractors and general contractor.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract involving the installation of an HVAC system at a condominium complex.
• Tried a construction defect action against numerous subcontractors and contractor involving a library reconstruction contract. (Jury Trial).
• Handled a breach of a construction contract where contractor walked off of the job site before completing the work required on a renovation of a residential property. Claims also included failure to pay on all change orders, defective workmanship, untimely completion of work.
• Handled an action involving construction defect claims at a residential property with numerous subcontractors involved with issues involving electrical, plumbing, roofing, tiling, window installation, wood working, concrete slab work, and exterior landscaping.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract between a contractor and a city.
• Handled action involving fraud and breach of contract involving construction work at a townhome complex.
• Handled an action involving breach of a construction contract on residential real property when contractor walked off the job site and counter claim for breach of contract for failure to invoices on progress payments.
• Handled an action involving a breach of a home improvement contract for delays, change orders, and failure to pay claims.
• Handled a breach of equipment contract for failure to timely provide equipment at a construction site causing delays and increased costs from other subcontractors.
• Handled an action involving the construction of a four-level condominium complex where there were numerous change orders which were not paid for and cross-claims for breach of contract for failure to pay subcontractors and substandard workmanship.
• Handled an action involving a construction project at a school where funds were advanced and issues regarding whether the general contractor failed to pay subcontractors with that money after the work was completed with claims for fraud, conversion, conspiracy, fraudulent concealment, alter ego and breach of contract.
• Handled an action involving a contractual arbitration clause and whether the motion to compel was timely given the amount of activity in the case.
• Handled an action involving breach of a construction contract where money was deposited with the court by third party until decision made regarding who is entitled to the sums.
• Handled an action involving a construction dispute over an office building in downtown Los Angeles with claims of delays in completion, failure to pay, declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and breach of contract.
• Handled a breach of construction contraction action involving apportion of the subway construction with claims for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, faulty bid preparation on a public works project, and unfair competition.
• Handled an action for breach of contract, rescission, and restitution stemming from the installation of new HVAC systems at a vehicle dealership, but the systems did not work.
• Handled a breach of construction contract and premises liability action involving a new courthouse, whether the work was completed and accepted, and whether metal protrusions to deter skateboarding on premises posed a dangerous condition when plaintiff tripped and fell on one.
• Handled an action involving damage to real property caused by the construction of an adjacent golf course and country club due to mudslide and subsidence of soil.
• Handled an action involving a breach of a construction contract for failure to pay subcontractor.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract against the general contractor and subcontractors for the remodel of a residence in Los Feliz with main issues involving plumbing and HVAC problems.
• Handled breach of a construction contract for failure to pay for materials, labor and consultations.
• Handled breach of contract involving the supply of ready-made concrete trucks to a restaurant chain construction site wherein labor, services and equipment provided but not paid for.
• Handled a breach of construction contact to remodel and tile backyard patio and construct a pool for failure to complete project after paid in full with additional claims for fraud, conversion and accounting.
• Handled a neighbor dispute involving the construction of a garage extension which extended onto plaintiff’s property.
• Handled a construction defect action arising from a multi-family development project ad aims for breach of construction contracts including subcontracts for defective work.
• Handled breach of a construction contract on a commercial property for failure to pay for work performed and defamation for false statements made about the quality of the work.
• Handled a breach of an architectural service and plans agreement for failure to pay with additional cross claims for breach of contract for untimely plans, and construction delays and quality issues on construction of a large commercial building.
• Handled a construction defect action against contractors, subcontractors and insurer involving roofing replacement with negligence and breach of contract claims.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action between general contractor and subcontractors, and negligence claim by employee for personal injuries suffered on the job site.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract involving structural steel for building in downtown Los Angeles.
• Handled a construction defect action against a contractor for work negligently performed on four projects in Los Angeles and Hawaii.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action for failure to pay for materials and services.
• Handled a breach of construction contract and fraud action involving a failure to perform the agreed scope of work despite a $46,000 deposit and failure to return the deposit.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action involving a failure to complete plumbing work which required the hiring of a new contractor to complete the work.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract and promissory note for failure to pay for work performed.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action for failure to pay for work performed on downtown Los Angeles project.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action involving work completed at a mall project and failure to pay for the work.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action for failure to pay for electric services.
• Handled a breach of construction contract involving a kitchen remodel project involving defective construction and failure to complete the work.
• Handled breach of a construction loan and for failure to repay all amounts owed.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action for failure to pay for work completed.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action for failure to complete all work paid for.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action at a project in Rialto.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action involving defective architectural plans and deficient construction administration services at a construction project for an elementary school.
• Handled a breach of construction contract involving the failure to pay for drilling services.
• Handled a breach of construction contract involving the failure to pay for drilling services at a natural gas electric power generating station.
• Handled a breach of construction contract for failure to pay amounts owed for services provided.
• Tried a breach of construction contract to construct a wall that was paid for but never completed. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a nuisance and injunctive relief action involving damage to commercial property caused by construction improvements at an adjacent property.
• Handled a breach of construction contract at a home in Rancho Palos Verdes for failure to pay for all work completed with cross-actions for construction defect claims.
• Handled a breach of a home improvement contract for failure to complete the work and substandard workmanship.
• Handled a breach of construction contract for work on two properties for failure to pull permits, failure to complete work, and substandard workmanship on work done.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract and personal guaranty for failure to pay for materials delivered.
• Handled an unjust enrichment, claim on bond and breach of construction contract for paving work that was completed by not paid for.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action for failure to complete all work paid for.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract involving over $350,000 paid but the wall project was abandoned by the contractor.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract for work on two properties that were not paid for.
• Handled a conversion, unjust enrichment and breach of a construction contract for abandonment of the job and failure to complete the work at a Palo Verdes home after being paid.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action for failure to pay for materials and labor provided.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action for failure to pay for the installation, repair, replacement, and retrofitting of refrigeration equipment, water treatment and air conditioning.
• Tried a breach of construction action for provide substandard work and failure to obtain permits. COURT TRIAL
• Tried a breach of contract and breach of personal guaranty action involving the delivery of ready mix concrete to a construction site at a mini mall in Gardena and failure to pay for amounts due. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of construction contract and disgorgement action involving the remodel of an office building and failure to complete the work and misrepresentation that the contractor had a license.
• Handled a breach of construction contact action for failure to complete the work.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action for failure to pay for elevators designed, manufactured and installed at a hotel.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action for failure to pay amounts due.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract for work performed for a church and failure to pay for work performed.
• Handled a breach of construction contract and unjust enrichment action for failure to pay work performed.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract for failure to pay for structural steel rails manufactured and delivered.
• Handled a breach of a construction loan agreement, fraud and injunctive relief action for a bank’s failure to honor draw requests for additional money to complete improvements to the parking lot of a shopping mall.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action for failure to complete the work at a Perris home.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract due to defects in construction work performed.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action involving construction of a 9500 sq. ft. home in Rolling Hills with landscaping, outdoor hardscaping including a pool, spa and barbeque with numerous construction defects in the work performed.
• Handled an action involving breach of a construction contract for failure to complete the work on a home in Laurel Canyon and the defendant was an unlicensed contractor.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action involving the construction of two restaurants at an LAX terminal and failure to pay over $850,000.
• Handled a breach of a subcontract action for failure to pay for work performed.
• Tried a breach of construction contract action involving the building of a modern hoe in Manhattan Beach with claims of overcharging, negligent misrepresentation, accounting and declaratory relief. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a breach of a construction contract and negligence action involving water and structural damage caused by defective construction.
• Handled a breach of a sheet metal subcontract action where materials and labor were supplied but not paid for.
• Handled a subcontract action against the general contractor for failure to pay materials supplied to the LAX redevelopment project.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action for the remodel of a residence for failure to pay for materials and labor provided.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action involving a home addition with additional claims for fraud and specific performance.
• Handled a construction defect action on a remodeling project of a Manhattan Beach home with claims for breach of contract, fraud and negligence.
• Handled a breach of construction contract and negligence action for remodel of residential property with issues involving untimely and substandard work, damage to home and culminating in the hiring of a new contractor to complete and fix the work.
• Handled a breach of a construction contract action for a new custom home involving a failure to complete the work on time, overcharging, and recovery on a contractor’s license bond.
• Handled breach of a subcontract agreement action for failure to pay for materials and services provided at construction project.
• Handled a breach of construction contract action at an elementary school for failure to make all payments due for work performed.
• Handled a breach of construction contract and negligence action for failure to properly install three water heaters causing damage to property.
• Handled a negligence action involving injuries caused by a defective and unprotected stair platform at a construction project and a failure to carry proper workers compensation insurance for employees.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving defective construction and workmanship at a home remodel project.
• Handled an injunctive relief action seeking to prevent unauthorized construction in violation of CC&R’s.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving a failure to pay for structural steel, stairs, equipment and labor provided with cross claims for defective work.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action against a steel manufacturer when a column and beam failed and fell causing repair costs of $465,000.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving the failure to pay for painting services provided at a bank.
• Handled a breach of a room renovation and landscaping contract action involving failure to obtain permits, overcharges, failure to complete work, poor workmanship and elder abuse.
• Handled a breach of contract action involving faulty electrical work at a residence with additional claims for fraud, negligence and declaratory relief.
• Handled an action involving damage to personal property at a residence due to smoke remediation work negligently performed but already paid in full with claims for fraud, conversion, rescission and unfair business practices.
• Handled an action involving breach of a purchase and installation of hardwood floor for failure to install after delivery.
• Handled a breach of home improvement contract action involving a failure to pay for work performed.
• Handled a breach of contract and negligence action for failure to install hardwood flooring properly.
• Tried a breach of contact action involving the sale of defective kitchen cabinets which were never replaced and cross claims for failure to pay for the cabinets delivered.
• Handled negligence action involving the failure to properly install a dishwasher causing water damage to home.
• Handled a breach of subcontract action for failure to pay for materials and labor provided.
• Handled a breach of contract and foreclosure on mechanic’s lien action for failure to pay for work performed on a residence.

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• Handled action involving Cummus counsel, waiver and untimely tender of defense in insurance bad faith case.
• Handled action involving a failure to defend and indemnity, breach of contract and additional insured issues.
• Handled a post-arbitration action to enforce decision regarding finding of bad faith against insurance carriers.
• Handled action involving a bad faith claim barred by a settlement in a prior action for breach of contract. Issues of res judicata.
• Handled bad faith action involving a homeowner’s insurance policy and mishandling of a claim caused by fire too residential real property.

• Handled an action involving a bad faith claim against an insurance carrier for failure to defend in an underlying personal injury action.
• Handled an action involving claims that insurance carrier representatives induced an insured not to timely act on pursuing a claim and a claim for bad faith when the insurance carrier denied claim as untimely.
• Handled an action involving an additional insured on an insurance contract. Additional claims for bad faith, and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
• Handled an insurance coverage dispute regarding an underlying action for discrimination and access to a laundromat and whether the event qualified as an “occurrence.”
• Handled a bad faith action against an insurer for failure to pay out on an insurance claim.
• Handled a negligence action involving an automobile accident outside of Palm Springs and bad faith claim against insurer.
• Handled a breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty action against insurance brokers and carrier for failure to inform plaintiff of exclusion on the policy with additional claims for negligence, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and bad faith.
• Handled a bad faith action involving an underlying auto collision action and issues of failure to cooperate by insurer and failure to timely notify of the insurer of the claim.
• Handled a bad faith action involving issues surrounding the settlement of an underlying personal injury action.
• Handled a bad faith action for failure to cover damages caused by vandalism to plaintiff’s building.
• Handled bad faith action involving a multi-vehicle accident in Costa Rica which resulted in an air transport to a hospital in the South Bay and the insurer’s refusal to pay the bills.
• Handled a bad faith action for failure to pay for damage caused by a fire at a property in Lake Forest.
• Handled a bad faith action for failure to provide coverage for damage to a home caused by to rainstorms.
• Handled a bad faith action involving failure to pay theft of jewelry.
• Handled a bad faith denial of a claim action.
• Handled a bad faith action involving the denial claim for home health care under a long-term care policy.
• Handled a bad faith action involving the failure to defend insured construction company in an underlying construction defect action.
• Handled a bad faith action involving a failure to defend and indemnify in underlying action for injuries caused by the negligent supervision of a child at school.
• Handled a bad faith and negligence action against the insurance agent and insurer when policy obtained did not cover the claim presented.
• Tried a bad faith action involving whether policies covered claim for vandalism. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a bad faith action for rejection of claim for a stolen Mercedes Benz.
• Handled a bad faith action for failure to cover a claim for water damage caused by a leaky shower valve.
• Handled a bad faith action involving the failure to pay on a claim for injuries incurred during a pedicure.
• Handled a bad faith action for failure to pay on a property damage claim.
• Handled a bad faith action involving injury suffered by a plumber on a construction site in El Segundo, but insurer denied coverage with additional claims for fraud, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and Violation of Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200
• Handled a bad faith action involving the failure to pay all of a loss claim due to fire and smoke damage from the Station Fire.
• Tried a bad faith action involving a residential fire with issues of arson. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a bad faith action against an insurer for failure to defend and indemnify on an underlying action involving an accident on plaintiff’s property under the CGL policy.

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• Handled an action involving negligence and the misdiagnosis by emergency room nurses and hospital – settled.
• Handled action involving injuries caused while under anesthesia regarding a Bovie instrument by nurses and doctors during surgery.
• Handled an action involving the fall out of hospital bed causing injury. Hospital and nurses sued for negligence, negligent hiring, supervision and control. Attending doctor also sued for negligence.
• Tried a wrongful death action involving surgery against doctors, nurses and hospital for negligence. Jury Verdict.
• Handled an action involving a breach of standard of care for a dentist. Unopposed motion for summary judgment granted.

• Tried action involving injuries and impotence caused by surgery. Hospital, nurses and attending doctors were sued for negligence. Jury Verdict.
• Handled an action involving the negligence and elder abuse of a senior at a hospital. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
• Handled an action involving whether the care and treatment by a doctor fell below the standard of care. Unopposed motion for summary judgment granted.
• Care and treatment by hospital, staff and doctors fell below the standard of care. (Grays v. Josiah Friedlander- check)
• Handled a medical negligence case against, doctors, nurses and the hospital for care and treatment that caused permanent brain injuries to a child.
• Handled three consolidated actions involving elder abuse and negligence causing injuries to an elder patient at a nursing home.
• Handled an action involving medical malpractice in the care and treatment of a post-surgical patient who developed an embolism and deep vein thrombosis requiring drug therapy and a Greenfield vena cava filter implant.
• Handled a dental malpractice action involving permanent dentures and the development of sore in the mouth which were not treated.
• Handled a medical malpractice action stemming from the care and treatment provided for a minor’s asthma.
• Handled a medical malpractice action regarding the care and treatment of a patient during surgery and post-surgery.
• Handled a medical malpractice action regarding whether there was consent to perform an ear tube surgery, misdiagnosis of ear condition and faulty treatment. Unnecessary surgery performed.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving the misdiagnosis and subsequent treatment of cancer.
• Handled an action involving medical malpractice in the care and treatment of a minor and reaction to medications.
• Handled a medical malpractice and elder abuse action involving an elderly patient who was injured a fall.
• Handled a medical malpractice and unlawful detention action against doctors, nurses and a hospital where a minor was admitted for a psychological evaluation.
• Handled an action involving personal injuries suffered by an elderly patient who fell from her bed when railings were not raised in the evening with elder abuse and negligence claims against nursing staff and nursing home.
• Handled an action involving medical malpractice of a patient during heart surgery.
• Handled an action involving medical malpractice claims stemming from a heart attack patient and his care and treatment in the emergency room, surgery and post-surgery care at a hospital.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving injuries resulting from psychiatric treatment at a county facility.
• Handled a wrongful death and medical malpractice action involving a failure to properly diagnose cancer in decedent eye which spread to his jaw and he died with additional claims for negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving improper prescription for narcotics following a colon resection surgery and resulting death.
• Handled a wrongful death and medical malpractice action stemming from a heart wall rupture caused by a perforation during a surgery.
• Handled a medical malpractice action for failure to diagnose and treat rectal cancer.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving spinal surgery.
• Handled a medical malpractice and elder abuse action involving a decubitus ulcer that developed into a stage IV ulcer and infection because an elderly patient remained in the same position I her hospital bed for too long.
• Handled a medical malpractice action.
• Handled a dental malpractice action stemming from a faulty root canal and failure to treat and diagnose a subsequent infection.
• Handled a wrongful death, negligence and elder abuse action involving a failure to report changes in condition resulting in death at a long term skilled nursing facility.
• Handled a wrongful death, elder abuse and negligence action for failure to notify of changes in condition, ignored repeated calls for assistance and failure to follow doctor’s orders at a long-term care facility which resulted in the patient suffocating and dying.
• Handled dental malpractice action against dentist involving dental implant surgery and misrepresentations regarding the cost of the procedure.
• Handled a dental malpractice action involving unnecessary extractions, oversized implants and oral surgery on some teeth without consent with battery and fraud claims.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving the placement of the wrong size screw in a leg during orthopedic surgery.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving a cancer patient left in a waiting room too long where she fainted, lost consciousness and was injured.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving dissatisfaction with plastic surgery performed.
• Handled a dental malpractice action involving eight implants.
• Handled an action involving workplace injuries, medical malpractice and worker’s compensation preemption issues.
• Handled a medical malpractice action regarding care and treatment at a hospital.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving injuries caused by dental implant surgery causing permanent damage to nerves.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving brain damage and paralysis caused to an infant during child birth at a hospital.
• Handled a medical malpractice action at south bay hospital.
• Tried a medical malpractice action involving a surgery which resulted in impotency. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving reaction to prescribed medication.
• Handled a medical malpractice action against a doctor for psychotherapy sessions.
• Handled a medical malpractice action against doctors, hospital and nursing staff.
• Tried a medical malpractice action involving an injection during ambulance transport, and post injection care at the hospital. JURY TRIAL
• Handled a wrongful death, elder abuse and medical malpractice action involving lack of care and treatment leading to skin issues and, hospitalization and death.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving prescription medication and side effects.
• Handled a medical Malpractice action involving injuries sustained during the delivery of a baby and failure to inform of the probable risk the baby would be born with genetic disabilities.
• Handled a medical malpractice and elder abuse action for injuries sustained at a care hospice facility.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving psychotherapy sessions and unconsented to hospitalizations and prescriptions.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving objects that were left in patient’s body after surgery.
• Handled a medical malpractice and wrongful death action involving a failure to diagnose and treat abdominal pains which worsen and resulted in the decedent’s death.
• Handed a medical malpractice action for causing infant to lose nose due to erosion of septum.
• Handled a medical malpractice action for injuries caused by the failure to treat a patient and discharge him from hospital because the patient had no insurance.
• Handled a medical malpractice and fraud action against a doctor and an IV fertilization clinic for charging unauthorized amounts on the patient’s credit card and taking payments for treatments that the doctor knew would not work.
• Handled a medical malpractice action against the hospital, nurses and doctors for injuries sustained due to deficient post-surgical care.
• Handled a medical malpractice action for injuries sustained from a reaction to prescription medication.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving spine surgery and the insertion of the central line by the anesthesiologist pierced an artery requiring a delay in the surgery and the requirement of three additional surgeries to repair a lymphatic leak.
• Handled a wrongful death and medical malpractice action involving a failure to timely treat a blood disorder.
• Handled a medical malpractice action.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving poor and untimely treatment in the emergency room.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving eye surgery performed with stitches on an eyelid for which there was no consent.
• Handled a medical malpractice action involving plastic surgery.
• Handled a wrongful death and medical malpractice action for failure to properly treat an aneurysm.
• Handled a wrongful death and elder abuse action for failure to treat pulmonary fibrosis properly.
• Handled a wrongful death and elder abuse action involving a resident of a residential care facility who was not provided adequate hygiene, nutrition or hydration.
• Handled a negligence and elder abuse action regarding in-home care and support services wherein plaintiff suffered two falls resulting in a broken clavicle and a failure to summon emergency services after the fall.
• Handled a negligence and elder abuse action involving a failure to properly care and treat a resident of a long term care facility that resulted in the formation of bed sores and hospitalization.
• Handled a wrongful death, negligence, and elder abuse action involving a failure to care for a patient in an assisted living facility and subsequent negligent care and treatment at the hospital where the patient suffered cardiac arrest and died.
• Handled an elder abuse, fraud, negligence and wrongful death action involving fatal injuries suffered when patient was lifted from her bed at a long- term care facility and dropped.
• Handled a negligence and elder abuse action for injuries sustained at a convalescent hospital.
• Handled an elder abuse, wrongful death, and negligence action against a long-term care facility where decedent chocked and died while eating foods not on her medically supervised diet.
• Handled a fraud, financial elder abuse, and breach of contract action against a tenant who falsely claimed he suffered lead poisoning to avoid being evicted.

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• Handled legal malpractice action stemming from underlying family law action.
• Handled legal Malpractice action stemming from an underlying criminal matter.
• Handled legal malpractice action stemming from underlying transactional real estate deal.
• Tried action involving legal malpractice, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion and negligence by a client against her attorney for misuse of the client trust account. Court trial.
• Handled an action involving a breach of a retainer agreement by law firm against a client for failure to pay amounts due and corresponding legal malpractice action against the law firm in the handling of an underlying divorce action.

• Handled an action involving the misuse of wire-transferred money out into and then out of a client trust account without the client’s knowledge or consent and for purposes other than the client’s matter for which the attorney was retained.
• Tried an action involving legal malpractice and fraud in an underlying divorce proceeding. (Jury Trial).
• Handled a breach of contract action for non-payment of legal services with legal malpractice claim in mishandling of underlying personal injury action.
• Handled legal malpractice action where attorney took settlement funds from the client trust amount and fled the country to Costa Rica. The attorney was disbarred and arrested when he attempted to return to the United States.
• Handled a legal malpractice action in the handling of an underlying probate action.
• Handled a legal malpractice and breach of contract action against a former attorney in handling an underlying breach of construction contract action for money advanced for repairs and improvements but never got any money back after won the case.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving an underlying family law case with a breach of contract claim by the former attorney for failure to pay legal fees.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving the co-mingling of funds in a client trust account and whether settlement funds from an underlying action were improperly dispersed.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving representation in several criminal matters.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving an underlying employment action and a failure to communicate settlement offers.
• Tried a legal malpractice action stemming from an underlying family law matter. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving an underlying construction defect case against a contractor with cross claim for unpaid fees.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving an underlying family law action.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving an underlying excessive force case.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving legal services provided in underlying wrongful termination action.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving legal services provided in an underlying business dispute.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving legal services provided in an underlying personal injury action.
• Tried a legal malpractice action involving an underlying real estate transaction.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving an underlying business dispute.
• Handled legal malpractice action involving an underlying marital dissolution action in family law court.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving underlying litigation.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving an underlying family law matter.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving underlying tax issues.
• Tried a legal malpractice and breach of fee agreement action. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving an underlying civil rights act action.
• Handled a legal malpractice action involving an underlying real estate litigation matter when he failure to timely request fees from the losing side.

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• Handled an action involving breach of contract, fraud and negligence in the renegotiation of a loan modification. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
• Handled action involving the foreclosure on residential real property for failure to pay the mortgage for over five years.
• Handled an action involving a breach of a loan agreement and foreclosure brought by a bank against a homeowner.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a home in Santa Clarita with additional claims for breach of contract, declaratory relief, fraud and violation of Bus. & Prof. § 17200.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a home in Santa Clarita with additional claims for violations of HBOR, negligence, accounting, and violation of Bus. & Prof. § 17200.

• Handled wrongful foreclosure action on property in Arcadia based upon a forged signature with additional claims for cancellation of instruments and quiet title.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving residential property.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with violations of HBOR claims.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving claims for violation of HBOR, quiet title, negligence, fraud and to set aside trustee’s sale.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with claims for claims for violations of HBOR, cancellation of instruments, negligence, and violation of Bus. & Prof. 17200.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with claims for violations HBOR, failure to complete loan modification process.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving violations of the HBOR, fraud, slander of title, quiet title, negligence, constructive fraud, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Allegations of predatory lending practices.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving claims for violation of HBOR.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving claims for violation of HBOR, quiet title, negligence, fraud and to set aside trustee’s sale.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with claims for violations of HBOR, cancellation of instruments, negligence, and violation of Bus. & Prof. 17200.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving claims for violation of HBOR, quiet title, negligence, fraud and to set aside trustee’s sale.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action or property in Palos Verdes Estates involving claims for violation of HBOR, quiet title, negligence, fraud and to set aside trustee’s sale.
• Tried judicial foreclosure action involving a property in Redondo Breach after failure to repay loan. COURT TRIAL
• Handled wrongful foreclosure action of property in Los Angeles involving claims for violation of HBOR, quiet title, negligence, fraud and to set aside trustee’s sale.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with claims for breach of fiduciary duty, unfair and deceptive business practices, numerous violations of the civil code, unjust enrichment, quiet title, rescission.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with additional claims for fraud, declaratory relief, quiet title amongst other claims.
• Handled a judicial foreclosure on commercial property action involving environmental contamination not disclosed and breach of guaranty.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action on residential property in Rancho Palos Verdes.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action regarding misrepresentations in the loan modification process with additional claims for fraud and negligence.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action of a home in Redondo Beach.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with claims for violations of the HBOR, fraud, cancellation of instruments, quiet title, and fraud.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a home in Santa Clarita with claims for violations of the HBOR, fraud on loan refinance, cancellation of instruments, quiet title, and fraud.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a home in Hawthorne on with claims for violations of the HBOR, fraud, cancellation of instruments, quiet title, and fraud.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure, fraud and negligence action against a co-investor in a property and against a bank.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with additional claims for specific performance, rescission, and appointment of a receiver.
• Tried a judicial foreclosure action involving a failure to repay two loans. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a judicial foreclosure action regarding two parcels of land for development in Los Angeles for failure to repay $49,000,000 loan and failure to repay under the personal guaranty.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action stemming from fraud in the loan modification process.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with additional claims for violations of the HBOR, quiet title, negligence and fraud.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a property located in Lawndale.
• Tried a nonjudicial foreclosure of commercial property action after numerous complaints regarding problems with the property. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a judicial foreclosure action involving a breach of a promissory note and personal guaranty for failure to pay.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action of a property in Rancho Palos Verdes.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action on a home in Hawthorne.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action for fraud and negligence during the loan modification process.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action that was a second action and barred by res judicata.
• Handled wrongful foreclosure action of a property in Torrance with HBOR violations.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action of a property located in Long Beach.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure of a home.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving violation of HBOR.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a home in Rancho Palos Verdes with claims for HBOR violations.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with HBOR claims.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action for violation of HBOR claims.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with claims for violations of the HBOR.
• Handled a judicial foreclosure action.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with claims for HBOR violations, quiet title, negligence and slander of title.
• Handled an injunctive relief action to stop a foreclosure on real property.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure and breach of contract action.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action of an Inglewood property.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action of a Woodland Hills home.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a home in Burbank.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a home in Hermosa Beach.
• Handled a breach of contract action for freight transportation and failure to pay for the services.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure and quiet title action of an Anaheim property.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a home in Manhattan Beach after bank intentional put up barriers to obtaining a loan modification.
• Handled an injunctive relief and quiet title action to prevent a foreclosure action.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving quiet title, cancellation of instruments and HBOR claims.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action for refusal to restructure loan six times without explanation with additional claims for violations of HBOR.
• Handled an injunctive relief action to stop a foreclosure on Rancho Palos Verdes property by individual who obtained title without notice to the mortgage company.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with additional claims for breach of contract, cancellation of instruments and accounting.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action of a property in Torrance.
• Handled an action involving a failure to negotiate a loan modification pre-foreclosure sale with additional claims for violations of HBOR.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action of a property in West Covina
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure of commercial property action.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a home in Tarzana.
• Tried the first phase on equitable issues in a wrongful foreclosure action and the decision on the first phase had es judicata effect on the second phase. BIFURCATED TRIAL.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure and fraud action.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action of a Torrance property.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a failure to complete the loan modification process, and HBOR violation claims.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with fraud, negligence, and violation of HBOR claims.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a failure to participate in a proper loan modification process.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving FEHA claims.
• Handled an action to disburse surplus funds from a foreclosure sale of a Rancho Palos Verdes property.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure sale.
• Handled a quiet title action to reverse a judicial foreclosure sale in an underlying action.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action with claims for violations of HBOR, fraud and negligence.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action involving a bank’s mishandling of a loan modification application.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action for failure to participate in the loan modification process.
• Handled a negligence, fraud and Bus. & Prof. Code §17200 action involving a failure to grant a loan modification.
• Handled a wrongful foreclosure action in violation of HAMP.

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• Handled an action involving defamatory email sent by a student about another student using the school’s internet and library computer.
• Handled an action involving statements made in political slate mailers and use of a plaintiff’s name without consent including claims for defamation, fraud, invasion of privacy, and First Amendment Right to Free Speech.
• Tried an action involving whether a third party had the authority to settle a doctor’s disability insurance claim and whether the check was cashed on a forged signature with fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligent misrepresentation claims. Court trial.
• Handled a fraud, invasion of privacy and negligence action involving the unauthorized disclosure of a player’s medical records to a professional sports team and the team doctor.
• Handled an action involving fraud in the management and election of board members at a private club where plaintiff was intentionally excluded.

• Handled an action involving certain statements made in a trade newsletter with defamation, slander, and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims.
• Tried an action for fraudulent conveyance of money not paid to plaintiff from a judgment in an underlying action where in defendants kept the money and thereafter moved that money to various shell corporations off shore. COURT TRIAL.
• Handled a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action involving a former employee who took confidential information including customer lists, receivables and employee information from the patio furniture manufacturer to start up his own competing business with additional claims for conversion, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, unfair business practices, and declaratory relief.
• Handled a fraudulent transfer action against individuals and corporation for transferring all corporate assets to different shall corporations off shore to avoid a $100,000.00 judgment.
• Tried a fraud, conversion and declaratory relief action involving whether plaintiffs gave dog to defendants temporarily while their home was being remodeled or whether they gave the dog to defendants permanently. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a fraud and conversion action involving a fraudulent investment scheme in a data support computer system at a school.
• Handled a fraud action between a separated husband and wife involving the use of wife’s vehicle, her separate property, and failed to maintain the vehicle and incurred parking fees, gas charges and numerous tickets without paying for them. Additional claims included battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a fraud and injunctive relief action against a city and competitor who conspired to prevent plaintiff from using its own property in Inglewood to provide billboard advertising on a preexisting billboard where the city denied the permit and gave exclusive rights to erect billboard advertising in the city, including next to plaintiff’s property and overhanging onto plaintiff’s property, with additional claims for trespass, nuisance and breach of oral contract.
• Tried a fraud action involving the transfer of funds to different accounts from plaintiff’s account without his permission. COURT TRIAL
• Handled a fraudulent transfer action involving the unauthorized transfer of 28 properties from a trust to individuals to avoid an underlying judgment.
• Handled a libel and slander action against a hospital where plaintiff worked including claims for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• Handled a fraud action involving a family owned restaurant owned by a mother and son and when the son transferred half of his interest in the restaurant to his brother-in-law and others who then claim full ownership over the business with additional claims for breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, unjust enrichment and declaratory relief.
• Handled a fraud action involving an investment in a start-up internet golf equipment sales company where defendant took all of the start-up money and started a different website under a new name with conversion and breach of fiduciary duty claims.
• Handled a fraud action involving the theft of intellectual property for a senior citizen tablet with additional claims for unjust enrichment and tortious interference with contract.
• Handled a fraud and breach of contract action involving a gold coin partnership in which plaintiff provided the funds and defendant was to obtain the coins but never did.
• Tried a fraud and breach of contract action against a former girlfriend for loans given to pay for living expenses where representations were made that a large inheritance was forthcoming and further funds were provided when representations were made that she was kidnapped and a ransom was required and paid which was not true. COURT TRIAL.
• Handled a fraud and negligence action involving the mismanagement of a downtown condominium building.
• Handled a libel action against a celebrity for tweets about her former attorneys.
• Handled a fraud and breach of contract action involving tax preparation services where the cpa had the individual employees of the company pay him checks directly into his own private account instead of paying the company for his services resulting in excessive billing charges and double payments.
• Handled a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action involving a dispute among family members over the disposition of their mother’s estate where money was spent to buy a yacht by one family member without authority or consent.
• Handled a fraud action where payments were made for child support for a child that was represented to be the payor’s child, but he was not his child.
• Handled a libel action against a doctor for making false statements to a medical college about another doctor.
• Tried a fraud, conversion and breach of fiduciary duty action involving the purchase of hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold coins that were never provided.
• Handled a slander and fraud action against television network and host of television talk show for secretly taping interviews during investigation of a missing teenager in Aruba and use of the tapes on the show regarding responsibility for disappearance.
• Handled a fraud and conversion action involving the withdrawal of substantial funds from a personal account without the consent or knowledge of the accountholder.
• Handled a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action involving a dispute between siblings where substantial amounts were withdrawn from mother’s account due to her infirmity.
• Handled a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action against a bank involving appraising a property for under market value to cause the borrower to not qualify for a loan modification.
• Handled an elder abuse action involving the loss of a home based on fraud.
• Handled a fraud, breach of contract and conversion action involving the loss of diamond earrings when shipped by defendant.
• Handled a libel action involving statements made about a property manager which resulted in termination.
• Handled a fraud and unjust enrichment action involving the unauthorized transfer of assets from an estate with additional claims for breach of fiduciary duty, conversion and accounting.
• Handled a fraud and conversion action involving payment of retirement money in fraudulent trust deeds.
• Handled a breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, fraud and breach of employment agreement action involving the unauthorized award of bonuses by insurance agents of over $250,000 to themselves.
• Handled a defamation action against a school district for statements made in an investigative report about a coach and teacher’s abilities.
• Handled a fraudulent transfer and declaratory relief action brought by a successor company involving the sale of French medical devices that the company no longer wishes to sell.
• Handled a fraud, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, and breach of contract action involving the sale of a dental practice where buyer attempted to take employees in breach of the agreement.
• Handled a defamation action involving statements that a church’s bank account was mishandled and funds misappropriated.
• Handled a fraud, elder abuse, conversion, accounting, and breach of a settlement agreement action for failure to pay all amounts due regarding an underlying investment in a company producing a movie that was never made.
• Handled a conversion, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty ad accounting action against a trustee for selling the estate’s real property and buying a home for herself without paying half of the proceed to the other heir.
• Handled a fraud, accounting constructive trust action for failure to repay $275,000 borrowed from a co-owned property.
• Handled a fraud and conversion action involving the purchase of jewelry with ten checks that were not honored due to insufficient funds.
• Handled a petition to determine proper claimants to surplus funds interpleaded after a foreclosure sale.
• Handled a libel, slander and Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 action involving the theft of an attorney’s client files by a private investigator working for that attorney and then the publication of statements about the attorney and clients on a website.
• Handled a libel, slander, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress action against parents of wife/daughter who hid her interests and assets because they knew he would find out she was having an affair with a celebrity and divorce her.
• Handled a fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and conversion action involving the embezzlement funds and stolen narcotics from a private pharmacy by a former employee.
• Handled a fraud, and elder financial abuse action involving the changing of estate planning documents.
• Handled a fraud, accounting and declaratory relief action against a sibling for mismanagement of family assets.
• Handled a fraud and negligence action for money taken from a bank account without permission.
• Handled a negligence, fraud, and conversion action against a former bookkeeper at a luxury automobile sales company who received checks payable to the company that she deposited into her personal accounts.
• Handled a fraud, declaratory and injunctive relief and abuse of process action involving the use of a third party’s name on lawsuits to obtain properties that he had no right to in violation of a previous judgment in an underlying lawsuit.
• Handled an unfair business practice and fraud action against ex-wife and her attorney in an underlying divorce action for conspiring to hide property obtained during the marriage.
• Handled a fraud, elder financial abuse, promissory estoppel and cancellation of deed involving an agreement to buy, improve and resell property but co-investor never paid any money.
• Handled a fraud and negligence action involving fraud by a DMV employee.
• Tried a defamation action. COURT TRIAL.
• Handled a fraud and conversion for funds stolen from a company by a former employee.
• Handled a fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and accounting action involving the theft of a business concept to provide more ecological plastic bottling to various companies, and he enters into agreements without plaintiff.
• Handled a breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and rescission action involving a failure to inform of withdrawal and surrender penalties, failure to provide a cash flow plan regarding an annuity and complete loss of life insurance investment.
• Handled a fraud and negligence action involving poor care and treatment at a westside hospital.
• Handled a fraud and negligence action involving the illegal recording of debt collection calls.
• Handled a rescission and fraud action involving the fraudulent inducement to enter into a settlement agreement for failure to perform.
• Tried a fraud and conversion action involving the theft of money invested for a real estate investment. COURT TRIAL

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• Handled an injunctive and declaratory relief action seeking to change DMV records regarding a vehicle salvage.
• Handled an injunctive relief action to prevent the sales of a banned food product at a restaurant.
• Handled an injunctive relief action involving determination of promotion methods at a police department.
• Handled a declaratory relief action involving the prohibition of the sale of fireworks in the city limits.
• Handled an injunctive relief action brought by a church against a city for passing a law that cannabis could not be sold within the city, but the church is based upon a belief in using cannabis as sacrament with additional claims for tortious interference with contractual relations, declaratory relief, violation of the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act and the California Constitution.