Learn How We Have Helped Clients Achieve Favorable Outcomes Across a Range of Legal Cases
Property Characterization and Division
- Successfully defended claims against a client's separate property stock in a divorce trial
- Effectively represented the client's interests through the allocation of significant debts from a community business
Child Custody, Visitation And Support
- Prevailed in defense of an alienated parent facing false claims of physical and sexual abuse
- Defended our client against fraud accusations from the other parent in a claim for the collection of unpaid child support
- Retroactively modified child support orders to increase child support owed to our client based on inconsistent previous court orders
- Protected our client's interests when the child's mother wanted to move the child and alter previous custody orders
- Successfully litigated a case in which the other parent wrongfully represented their income to increase support, leading to significant support arrears for our client
- Significantly increased our client's visitation time in child support orders
Premarital And Postmarital Agreements
- Successfully invalidated a premarital agreement our client signed under duress
Domestic Violence
- Promptly obtained restraining orders on behalf of clients and defended clients facing accusations of abuse
Personal Injury
- Achieved successful settlements in mediation for wrongful death cases arising from an Alaska Airlines crash
- Successfully negotiated a multi-million-dollar settlement in a drunk driving case involving multiple defendants
- Achieved a sizable pre-trial settlement in a wrongful death case against an intoxicated driver responsible for a head-on collision that killed the parent of a small child
- Settled a slip-and-fall case against a local retailer in which a customer tripped over an improperly placed garment rack
- Successfully negotiated the largest settlement ever paid by the City of Palo Alto at the time for premises liability
- Appealed and resolved a case against Delta Airlines for maintaining a secret list of employees suspected of having HIV
- Settled a case involving catastrophic work-related injuries in which the employer claimed independent contractor status
- Achieved a pre-trial settlement for interference and defamation claims against a local promotional business
- Dismissed a union trust's action for an alleged breach of a collective bargaining agreement against a local small business
- Resolved unfair competition and trade secret claims against a local brokerage company out of court
- Settled a wrongful termination claim against a Silicon Valley S&P 500 company out of court with a motion for summary judgment
- Resolved a breach of contract dispute between an equipment manufacturer and the local municipality
- Settled a high-conflict case between family members in a family-owned business through mediation one month before trial
- Resolved a multi-million-dollar business dispute through arbitration
- Resolved a shareholder dispute between siblings seeking control over a multi-million-dollar business
Real Estate
- Successfully achieved a jury verdict exceeding $500,000 against a real estate broker who cost our client his business
- Settled multiple claims against a client involving possession of a local residence
- Achieved a favorable settlement during trial for our client against a contractor who performed substandard work on their property
- Negotiated a favorable settlement in a landlord-tenant dispute involving habitability
- Guided clients through eviction of tenants in multiple cases throughout California
- Resolved a case against a broker who invested our client's life savings into subpar real estate
