Top best Civil Lawyers Near me in ZIP 90071

Steven H. Kaufmann is a shareholder at Richards, Watson & Gershon and Chair of the Firm’s Coastal Law Department. For 34 years, Mr. Kaufmann has represented either the California Coastal Commission itself or represented landowners, developers and public entities with matters before that agency. His work has involved a broad array of Coastal Commission administrative matters, as well as a substantial amount of litigation involving challenges to or defense of Commission decisions. Mr. Kaufmann’s experience includes every aspect of California coastal regulation, including coastal development permits, appeals, federal consistency review and appeals to the Secretary of Commerce, exemptions, local coastal programs, public works plans, enforcement, and legislation, as well as related local entitlements and compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). His work has produced successful results for clients on a host of projects involving complex energy or transportation-related issues; wetlands, environmentally sensitive habitat, or other habitat-related issues; golf courses, traditional hotels, timeshares, condominium hotels; and residences, subdivisions, commercial uses, and marinas. He has successfully challenged and defended decisions made by the Commission on coastal development permits, local coastal program amendments, and federal consistency.

Ryan K. Marden is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP. He specializes in civil litigation with an emphasis on public-entity representation, railroad-related litigation, general business and real estate litigation. With more than 13 years of experience, Ryan has significant litigation experience, handling matters from inception through trial. He has extensive experience in preparing and arguing dispositive motions, managing mass tort litigation, training and advising clients in pre-litigation evidence preservation, and briefing and arguing appellate issues.

One of California’s top trial lawyers, Jonathon Kaplan is always willing to go the distance for his clients. Well experienced in the courtroom, he has tried dozens of cases, achieving maximum recoveries for his clients. Jon’s expertise is employment law and civil rights cases. Some of the types of matters he handles in these areas are unpaid wage and overtime claims, discrimination and harassment cases, equal pay issues and wrongful termination. He draws on close to 30 years of legal experience, having worked throughout his career on other cases involving personal injury, product liability, highway accidents, consumer warranty, franchising, fraud claims, and business disputes.. Jon wins an overwhelming number of trial verdicts for his clients. He also handles appeals, some resulting in published opinions that create law in his areas of practice. Based on his winning track record, opposing lawyers know Jon and his firm will take a case to trial to get the absolute best results for their clients.. After graduating from a top-ten law school at Duke University, Jon started his legal career with the prominent Los Angeles law firm of Lewis, D’Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard in 1990. There, he quickly distinguished himself, rising to the level of equity partner. In 2002, he founded Kaplan Lee LLP. In 2014, the firm changed to its current name, Kaplan Weiss LLP, where Jon works alongside his partner, Yitz Weiss.. Jon was awarded an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the preeminent peer review rating for attorneys’ legal skills and ethics.  In recognition of his professional accomplishments, Jon was named one of the State’s top 20 lawyers under the age of 40 by California’s leading legal newspaper, The Daily Journal. He has also been consistently named one of Southern California’s "Super Lawyers" an honor bestowed upon a select group of elite lawyers who have achieved the highest degree of peer recognition and achievement.. Jon frequently speaks publicly on a wide variety of legal subjects. He has spoken on employment law matters at various professional conferences and lectured in forensic psychiatry at a leading Los Angeles medical school.  He also has served as a court-appointed arbitrator and mediator for the Los Angeles Superior Court.. Jon is committed to his community and has devoted countless hours to civic and charitable causes. He has sat on the boards of many prominent civic, charitable and educational organizations, as well as steering committees for national political candidates.

Mr. Mazgani practices in the firm’s Environmental Law Department. In that capacity, Mr. Mazgani has been involved in numerous civil, criminal and regulatory environmental matters involving soil and groundwater contamination, toxic torts, CERCLA, and a wide array of State and Federal regulatory schemes. Mr. Mazgani regularly appears in both federal and state courts and works closely with representatives of a number of environmental regulatory agencies, including the Regional Water Quality Control Boards and the Department of Toxic Substances Control, on behalf of the firm’s clients.. Mr. Mazgani’s experience with CERCLA litigation and its California counterpart, the Hazardous Substances Account Act (HSAA), includes representing numerous corporate clients in multi-party CERCLA cost recovery and contribution actions, overseeing and directing investigations to identify Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs), working closely with litigation consultants to develop fate and transport models, advising both private corporations and public entities with respect to National Contingency Plan (NCP) compliance, advising hazardous waste generators with respect to “arranger” liability, advising clients with respect to de minimis CERCLA settlements and assisting clients in responding to requests for information from U.S. EPA.. Mr. Mazgani’s expertise also extends to the defense of complex toxic tort litigation matters. Mr. Mazgani has successfully defended both private corporations and public entities against lawsuits alleging exposures to hazardous materials present in indoor air by reason of vapor intrusion and the ingestion of contaminated drinking water. Mr. Mazgani’s representations include the successful defense of governmental entities in a high profile toxic tort matter brought by over 1,000 former residents of a publicly owned low-income housing complex in which our firm obtained a complete dismissal on behalf of the governmental entities following extensive expert discovery, depositions and successful motions to exclude the testimony of plaintiffs’ experts.. Mr. Mazgani’s environmental expertise also extends to non-litigation environmental matters. Mr. Mazgani routinely advises the firm’s clients with respect to environmental due diligence, environmental reporting and disclosure obligations, permit transfers, warranties and representations in transactions involving the purchases and sales of businesses, transfers of real property, commercial leases and indemnity agreements.. Mr. Mazgani’s environmental expertise also extends to advising clients in relation to Brownfield developments, responding to cleanup and abatement orders, obtaining no further action letters, complying with notice and disclosure requirements, prosecuting insurance claims involving environmental liabilities and the appointment of Cumis counsel, advising clients with respect to Underground Storage Tank (UST) regulations and prosecuting claims involving the UST Cleanup Fund.. Mr. Mazgani’s experience also extends to criminal prosecutions under environmental laws, including defending transporters being prosecuted for violations of U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations, defending property and business owners being prosecuted for the illegal storage and disposal of hazardous wastes, defending individual corporate officers alleged to have personal liability for environmental crimes and advising corporate clients in relation to grand jury subpoenas and investigations that may result in criminal liability.. In addition to his environmental litigation experience, as a member of the firm’s Litigation Group, Mr. Mazgani has also participated in a variety of business litigation matters involving breaches of contract, trade secrets, unfair competition, defamation, partnership disputes, commercial leases, construction defects, wrongful termination and class action defense.

I am a Partner in the Employment and Labor Practice Group and am a Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law by the California Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California.  My practice focuses on the areas of workers’ compensation defense and third party subrogation. My practice encompasses all aspects of workers' compensation law, including claims alleging violation of California Labor Code sections 132a and 4553 et seq. (employer serious and willful misconduct). My clients include self-insured employers, with and without third-party administrators, employers who maintain high retention levels requiring strict oversight of their claims and uninsured employers. My clients include small businesses to fortune 500 companies.I have lectured in seminars on several workers’ compensation subjects. Prior to joining Haight, I worked in-house as legal counsel for a third-party administrator litigating workers' compensation claims for CBS and Paramount Studios. Prior to law school, I administrated employee benefits for the Federal Aviation Administration, including workers' compensation claims.. Community Involvement. In law school I volunteered at the San Diego Superior Court Family Law Facilitator's Office drafting documents for indigent families and mediating disputes. I also mediated disputes between inmates at the San Diego Juvenile Hall. While volunteering at the Social Security Administration, I successfully represented a claimant in the appeal of their application for benefits.

Hello, you know how attorney's fees can really crush a company's bottom line. Well how do you know if you got what you paid for? Has a client questioned your fees? What are the prevailing market rates in your community? What options do you have to deal with a dispute over legal fees? Are the charges that your opponent has submited reasonable? I can answer these types of questions as I have reviewed over $2 billion dollars in bills (and work product) and have testified many times.. Traveling in Japan became an interest many years ago when I married a woman who was born and raised in Tokyo.  Tokyo folks are something like Manhattanites--in that they don't seem to really believe that anything outside their little area is REALLY worth visiting.  So we made a deal that one visit to Japan would be to Tokyo and the next visit would be to a place in Japan of MY choosing.  Because of this deal (and because my wife speaks Japanese) we got to go to almost all of the out of the way spots in the country.  We have many friends in Japan and I believe that I have a fairly good understanding of many aspects of the culture and I would welcome any sort of inquiry that has any connection to anything Japanese.. For my "pro-bono" work, I recently became a member of the Board of Directors of the Pasadena (CA) Humane Society and SPCA, which is a 100+ year old non-profit that handles the animal affairs for 7 cities.. My one real indulgence is my Porsche Carerra. 5 minutes in it makes me happy!

Brandon A. Takahashi is Head of Labor and Employment at ADLI Law Group. His practice specializes in advice and counseling, and employment litigation in both State and Federal Court, on behalf of private sector and public entity employers. Having handled hundreds of employment matters, Mr. Takahashi utilizes his experience and skills to advise and counsel clients on all manner of employment-related issues, including employee management, discipline and termination, internal investigations, leave management, proper employee classification, and sexual harassment training.. As an experienced litigator, he has handled all aspects of litigation, up through and including trial preparation, in numerous cases and claims regarding all types of discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, Fair Employment and Housing Act retaliation, whistleblower retaliation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of contract, Family Medical Leave Act and California Family Rights Act violations, and wage and hour claims.. Prior to joining ADLI Law Group, Mr. Takahashi was Senior Associate with the national employment law firm, Jackson Lewis P.C. In this capacity, he focused on employment issues in several areas, including the hospitality, retail, restaurant, banking and commerce, medical and medical device manufacturing, sports, and software programming industries. In his years as an employment litigator, Mr. Takahashi represented, among other clients, the Regents of the University of California in a case of first impression involving interpretation and application of California Government Code section 12940(g) with respect to claims of employer retaliation following alleged reports of suspected patient abuse at medical facilities. He also assisted in the defense of a series of cases throughout California which addressed a split of authority between the Third and Fourth District Courts of Appeal regarding the continued viability of the judicial exhaustion defense for public entities.. Mr. Takahashi was selected to the Lawyers of Color inaugural “Hot List” in 2013, consisting of the top 100 minority attorneys under the age of 40 in the Western Region of the United States. He has also been named a Rising Star by Southern California Super Lawyers, a designation reserved for the top 2.5% attorneys, for 4 years running, 2013 – 2016.. Mr. Takahashi received his Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior from the University of California, Davis in 2001, and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2006.. Areas of Practice:. Education:. Bar Admissions:. Awards & Honors:. Languages:

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Beverly Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Beverly Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Beverly Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Beverly Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Beverly Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Beverly Hills and surrounding areas.