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Shawn Dhillon is an experienced real estate attorney and the founder of Real Estate Law Corporation™. Shawn specializes in both real estate litigation and real estate transactional matters.. He has drafted and negotiated over $500 million in commercial real estate transactions all over California. His work includes complex real estate purchase and sale transactions, new developments, ground leases, and commercial leases with local, regional, and national companies, including several Fortune 500 Companies. Shawn regularly counsels owners of retail shopping centers, shopping malls, office buildings, industrial buildings, apartment complexes, self-storage facilities, hotels, gasoline service stations, as well as real estate developers, property management companies, general contractors, sub-contractors, brokers, and tenants. Shawn also has extensive civil litigation experience, from case inception through jury trials, and has recovered millions of dollars for his clients.. Prior to founding Real Estate Law Corporation™, Shawn worked at litigation law firms, served as in-house counsel for a large construction and development company, and was also in-house counsel for a large fully-integrated commercial real estate company with $1 billion in real estate assets and over 1,400 commercial tenants.

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Martha Evensen Opich was admitted to the California State Bar in December of 1980 after receiving her A.B. degree from the University of California, Davis, and her law degree at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. At McGeorge, she was Managing Editor and a member of the Board of Editors of the Pacific Law Journal (now known as the McGeorge Law Review) and published a student comment and several analyses of recent California legislation for McGeorge’s well-known "Greensheets" legislative review publication.. Marty has represented banks for more than two decades practicing in the areas of banking, finance and business transactions. Eleven of those years were spent as in-house counsel to two financial institutions - U.S. Bancorp and Sacramento Savings Bank. Marty joined Douglas Kraft & Associates after practicing in a Sacramento law firm as Senior Counsel specializing in the representation of financial institutions.. While serving as Vice President and Senior Corporate Counsel for U.S. Bancorp from 1997-2001, Marty was responsible for legal matters pertaining to Northern California and Northern Nevada. This included negotiating, structuring and documenting secured and unsecured commercial and real estate loans, advising the bank concerning exercise of its remedies upon default by the borrowers, reviewing and negotiating intercreditor, subordination, and participation agreements, advising bank officials on the administration of deposit accounts and negotiable instruments, and negotiating on behalf of U.S. Bank in customer disputes. She also retained outside counsel and managed litigation.. As a Vice President and Legal Counsel for Sacramento Savings Bank from 1986-1994, Marty counseled bank officers concerning divestiture of Sacramento Savings’ $100 million real estate investment portfolio in response to the enactment of FIRREA, including negotiating with responsible regulatory agencies, documenting the sales transactions for the real estate comprising the portfolio and unwinding relationships with investment partners. She also supervised and managed litigation including construction, lending, check fraud, and employment matters. She also drafted agreements and obtained regulatory approval for the purchase and sale of deposits. In 1988-89, Marty served as Sacramento Savings’ Director of Human Resources.. Marty began her career clerking for the Honorable Sherrill Halbert, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, from 1980 to 1983. She entered the field of banking and finance practicing as an associate attorney for one of Sacramento's larger law firms. She also served as a Deputy Attorney General for the California Department of Justice.. Marty is a member of the State Governmental Relations Committee and a former member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the California Bankers Association. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the McGeorge Alumni Association, the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the State Bar's Business Law Section, and the Financial Institutions Committee of the State Bar's Business Law Section. On behalf of the California Banker’s Association, she has spoken on the topic of "Keeping Loans Current: Tools and Best Practices for Commercial Loan Portfolios." She has also presented "Negotiating Commercial Leases" to the Sacramento chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association. Marty was also an Adjunct Professor of Law and Director of Business and Community Development Clinic at Pacific McGeorge School of Law. Marty also served as president of The Friends of the Sacramento Crisis Nursery.

Douglas H. Kraft was born in Bremerton, Washington on August 13, 1952. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1991. His education includes: B.B.A. degree in 1974, and M.B.A. degree in 1979, at Loyola University in Los Angeles, California; J.D. degree, with Great Distinction, in 1991, at McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. While continuing to work in the banking industry and attending law school at night, he received numerous academic awards including Order of the Coif, American Jurisprudence Awards for Torts, Bankruptcy, Negotiable Instruments, and Personal Property Finance, and the Corpus Juris Secundum Award, awarded by the faculty for significant contributions to legal scholarship. He practices in the areas of creditors rights, commercial and real estate loan documentation, commercial litigation, bankruptcy, real estate and collections.. Doug was a member of the Insolvency Law Committee (2005-2008) and the Uniform Commercial Code Committee (2000-2003) of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar. In May of 2002, Doug was a speaker at the Annual Spring Meeting of the Business Law Section and the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar as part of the panel presenting a program entitled "Enforcement of Rights Under the U.C.C. Revised Article 9." In May 2001, Doug was also a speaker on the panel presenting the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) continuing legal education program entitled "Taking and Enforcing Security Interests in Personal Property" (Revised Article 9). Doug also made a presentation to the Sacramento Chapter of the Risk Management Association (RMA) entitled "What Every Loan Officer Should Know About Revised Article 9.". Doug has also presented several programs dealing with real property financing and other loan documentation and enforcement issues. Doug has been a speaker on several CEB continuing education programs involving Real Property Financing, the latest being a program presented in January of 2012, entitled "The Impact of Bankruptcy on Real Property Transaction". Doug and Marty have presented a program for Lorman Education Services entitled "Commercial Real Estate Loan Documentation in California". Doug was a panelist at the Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum Summer 2008 Program, dealing with real property foreclosure issues, and Summer 2010 Program, dealing with issues driving the lender’s decisions with problem loans. Doug also made a presentation to the Sacramento Valley Chapter of RMA entitled "Selected Leasing Issues in Real Estate Lending." In addition, Doug has made presentations to the Central Valley Chapter of RMA entitled "Tales From the Trenches: Oops! Thing We Should Have Thought of Before This Loan Became a Problem", and "Issues Facing Lenders in Agricultural Loan Documentation and Workouts" and "Don’t Let Your Borrower Get Away" dealing primarily with loan documentation and enforcement issues. Doug has also made presentations to Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section of the Sacramento County Bar Association entitled "What’s Driving the Bank That’s Driving You Crazy" and "What’s Driving the Bank That’s Driving You Crazy: Part Deux." Doug is an AV Preeminent Rated attorney through Martindale Hubbell.