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THE DIMEFF LAW OFFICE, LLP is a full service estate planning practice. There are three lawyers in the firm. It emphasizes many varied services. These matters include not only the drafting of Wills, Living Trusts, Special Needs Trusts, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts and Charitable Trusts, but also planning for disability, estate and gift tax planning, fiduciary tax administration, contested estate and planning matters, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, long-term care issues, and retirement benefits. Additionally, there are experienced litigators on staff in the fields of ERISA litigation and complex mass tort litigation. Mr. Dimeff is a nationally recognized speaker on Estate Planning, Tax Planning & Asset Protection, and is the senior partner in the Dimeff Law Office. He has been quoted in, and interviewed by, the Wall Street Journal. He is a member of the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section of the State Bar of California, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Section. Additionally, he has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Financial and Estate Planning, and gives continuing education to lawyers, CPAs and real estate professionals. He has served as an expert witness in matters including professional estate planning malpractice. The firm currently represents over 6000 clients.

San Diego Attorney Christine Padilla specializes in Estate Plans, Wills, Trusts, and Probate for San Diego and the North County. Are you unsure of the difference between a will and a trust, or how to avoid probate? We welcome you to contact us for a free estate planning consultation.

Ryan D. Bright is a Partner in the Product Liability and Personal Injury department at Klein DeNatale Goldner. Ryan was born and raised in the Central Valley of California in the city of Bakersfield, and went on to receive his undergraduate degree and law degree in San Diego, California. Ryan has dedicated his career to helping individuals that have suffered serious injuries due defective products, negligent individuals and irresponsible insurance companies. In that respect, Ryan has also successfully represented a number of clients in insurance bad faith litigation. Ryan handles both single event cases and mass tort litigation. Ryan has participated in leadership positions in both Federal Multi-District Litigation and California Judicial Council Coordinated Proceedings. Ryan was selected to The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, and was previously selected as one of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 lawyers in California.

Prior to founding Nell Law APC, Erin worked at a boutique estate planning firm in San Diego. Her practice focused on complex and high-end estate planning for clients located throughout the state.. Before moving to San Diego, Erin was a partner at a Napa firm focused predominantly on estate planning and business transactions. She represented trustees, beneficiaries, businesses, and non-profit entities throughout the Napa Valley.. Erin is an active member of the community, having served as President of Napa County Women Lawyers, President and founding member of the Napa County Young Lawyers Division, and on the boards of several other nonprofit organizations.. Erin is a graduate of Notre Dame Law School and was admitted to the California State Bar in 2012. Before law school, Erin graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with a double-concentration in Accounting and Marketing, as well as a Minor in Economics.

Outside of the law, I enjoy golfing, surfing, hiking and backpacking.. I am grateful to have a wife and friends who enjoy the outdoors as much as I do.  As our children grow it is a joy to introduce them to the world around them.  Much of my time is living vicariously through their young eyes and minds.

Ms. Wilson has thirty-six years of experience in estate planning and trust administration. She is an honors graduate of Stanford University and the University of Southern California School of Law, and a certified specialist in Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Law, as certified by the Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California, since 1991. Ms. Wilson worked as an associate with the law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton, and Scripps from 1983 through 1988, and since then opened her independent law practice in North County San Diego, emphasizing probate, trust administration, and estate planning. AV-rated attorney, Martindale Hubbell.

Michelle Gaulin, Esq. founded Gaulin Law after spending a decade at a plaintiffs’ securities firm, where she specialized in derivative and securities class actions. She also has extensive experience litigating qui tam actions, where she represented whistleblowers against corporate fraud and misconduct. As a woman and mother who is committed to advocating for women's rights in the workforce, Michelle felt compelled to pivot her focus exclusively to plaintiff’s employment law.. At Gaulin Law, APC, we specialize in severance negotiations and representing mothers and women who have been subjected to unlawful workplace discrimination, retaliation, or wrongful termination on the basis of their pregnancy or gender.. Our team is dedicated solely to fighting for employees' rights. Michelle understands the emotional, mental, and financial stress that comes with workplace discrimination and retaliation. At Gaulin Law, we believe in accessible legal representation, which is why we work on a contingency basis—you don’t pay any attorneys’ fees unless we win your case. We invite you to reach out today for a free consultation. Our team is here to listen, support, and fight for the justice you deserve.

Michele M. Vallat has been a family law attorney in San Diego since graduating from California Western School of Law.  She vigorously advocates for her clients in a non-aggressive manner; her preference is to negotiate issues, reducing costs to her clients.  She typically handles custody, divorce, support, property division, reimbursement, and Department of Child Support matters.  She does not stand on formality and prefers to be called Val.  You will see her passion for golf and her dogs when visiting her office, as evidence of both are prominently displayed.  In fact, there is almost always one dog present at the Law Office of William R. Fuhrman each day.

MERWYN J. MILLER, J.D. (Merv) has co-authored two books.  The most recent, Don't Go Broke in a Nursing Home, is a guide for those needing to navigate the difficult road to affording the cost of assisted living, in home care, and skilled nursing for loved also co-authored a legal text book (Understanding California Real Estate Law).. Merv has been an estate planning attorney for almost 40 years and an elder  law attorney for well over 20 years.  In addition to estate planning he assists  families in obtaining Medi-Cal and veterans benefits and often coordinates with the families’ financial advisor.Merv is an estate planning and elder law attorney with an active law  office in Encinitas, San Diego County, California.  He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1974 and has been certified by that organization's Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in Estate Planning,  Trust, and Probate Law. Merv  earned his law degree at California Western  School of Law in San Diego, California, and holds a Masters degree in Financial  Services with an emphasis in Estate Planning.  He is accredited by the Veterans Administration under accreditation number 9055.  He has taught law courses at both public and private colleges and for many years  served as a member of the adjunct faculty of the College for Financial Planning.. He wrote legal columns for many local papers, including the largest regional  newspaper in San Diego County (the Blade Citizen and its successor, the North  County Times), and professional journals for 15 years.  He has appeared on the "Wealth Management" television series and has been  listed in "Who's Who in American Law.". Merv is a frequent lecturer on estate planning  topics to other attorneys and allied professionals including having presented at Continuing Legal Education, Society for  Financial Service Professionals, International Association for Financial Planning,  and Estate Planning Council conferences and the Trusts and Estates Section of the North County Bar Association.Merv is well known to a host of insurance  and investment firms.  He enjoys traveling, dining on gourmet food and wine, golfing, reading about the American Western Frontier and the Civil War, and coaching youth basketball teams.

MADELYN J. CHABER • Chaber Law Office and Trial Coaching/Consulting. Madelyn J Chaber is a 35+year award-winning trial lawyer, including twice Trial Lawyer of the Year by San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, Finalist by Public Justice and Outstanding Advocate by CAOC. She practices as an attorney handling mesothelioma/asbestos cases, co-counseling on Product Liability, Toxic Torts, Personal Injury and Mass Torts as well as a Trial Coach and Consultant.. Over the course of her career, Madelyn has tried numerous cases with successful result in the form of significant verdicts, including multiple punitive damage awards. Her trial skills have been honed by years of battling large corporations, toxic polluters and Big Tobacco as well as teaching Trial Advocacy to lawyers and law students. As a trial coach and trial consultant, Madelyn supports other lawyers in and out of the courtroom, strategizing, conducting focus groups, jury selection, witness preparation and co-counseling with them.. After decades in the San Francisco Bay Area, she now calls San Diego home. She is a member of the American Board of Trial Attorneys (ABOTA), a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants (ASTC) and has AV Preeminent Rating Martindale-Hubbell.  Some of her recent recognitions include:. 2016-2019 Top Lawyers in San Diego (San Diego Magazine)2018-2019 Top Rated Lawyer in Mass Tort Law (American Lawyer Magazine)2019 Women Leaders in the Law (American Lawyer Magazine)

Litigation and trial attorney, and Litigation Department Chair at The Opus Law Firm, with a practice focusing on business, commercial, and real property-related lawsuits and disputes, including in state and federal trial and appellate courts and alternative dispute resolution forums throughout Southern California.. Clients are represented from pre-dispute negotiations through trial and appeals, including in connection with commercial lease disputes, construction litigation, property ownership disputes, purchase and sale disputes, partnership and entity membership disputes, commercial contract actions, financing litigation and enforcement, and other real-estate related and business litigation matters.. Clients range from individuals to publicly-held Fortune 500 companies, real estate developers and builders, commercial property owners, managers, and tenants, institutional lenders, and other business entities.

Joseph Adelizzi is an estate planning attorney and principal of Security Planning Group, Inc. He has been in practice since 1984 and has litigated cases for some of the nations largest insurance companies. He is admitted to the following: California Supreme Court, State Bar of California; United States District Courts, Central District and Southern District of California; United States Tax Court, all 50 states. He is a certified Mediator and was on the Settlement Conference Panel of the San Diego Superior Court as a Judge Pro Tem from 1989 to 2006.  He teaches 2 MCLE courses to Lawyers on the faculty of Lawline on Tax Advantaged Retirement Planning and Structured Installment Sales.. He founded Security Planning Group, Inc., as a group of legal professionals who are constantly striving to expand the professional and public knowledge about financial self-defense plans to guard against Governmental Security, the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Health Services, Hospitals and Nursing Homes, which are just a short list of the potential threats to your family's financial security and your own personal rights.. He also assists clients by preparing documents that guarantee the right to maintain personal dignity and wishes in the event they cannot make those decisions for themselves, avoiding unnecessary governmental intrusion into their private affairs. Mr. Adelizzi takes an active roll in speaking about new legislation for elders and advocates the rights of individuals to be free to make personal choices free of governmental oversight. Besides advocating for the use of Health Care Directives and Financial Powers of Attorney, he handles Trust issues and has litigated Trust and Probate matters.. On a personal note, Mr. Adelizzi, is a native New Yorker who has been a resident of Encinitas, California since 1981. He is married to his wife, Margaret and has two grown children. In his spare time, Mr. Adelizzi enjoys a variety of activities such as golf, scuba diving, fishing, skiing and racing as a competitive7 time Ironman triathlete.

Jessica McElfresh is a San Diego criminal defense lawyer and founding attorney at McElfresh Law, Inc. Her practice areas include all types of criminal defense including drug and marijuana crimes. She is devoted to defending the rights and protecting the futures of her clients. An aggressive and dedicated defense attorney, Jessica is also involved in drug policy reform. Jessica has taught educational programs for other lawyers and authored proposed ordinances and ballot initiatives to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. She currently serves as the Community Director for the San Diego Chapter of the NORML Women’s Alliance.. Jessica is a summa cum laude graduate of Scripps College and received her law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she was a Dean’s Honor Scholarship recipient. While attending law school, she interned with the San Diego District Attorney’s Office, where she gained valuable experience in analyzing search and seizure issues. Jessica is a current member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the California Public Defenders Association, the San Diego County Bar Association, and the Lawyers Club of San Diego. She has been sought out for her legal commentary by media outlets including The Los Angeles Times, The San Diego U-T, NBC, KPBS, and more.

I provide my California clients with peace of mind through comprehensive and personalized estate planning services.  This includes the drafting of living trusts, wills, powers of attorney, advance health care directives and other important estate planning documents.  I also assist Successor Trustees who have taken over the administration of a trust due to death, resignation or incapacity. This can be a difficult task full of hidden issues and we help our clients navigate through the process.  Finally, when there was a failure to plan or when problems arise, we assist clients with probate proceedings.. Feel free to contact me to discuss your concerns or issues in these areas.  While direct face to face working relations are usually preferred, we can work with California residents in other ways if needed.

I limit my practice to drafting estate plans at affordable rates and assisting trustees with trust administration. I do not charge for consultations, meetings or phone calls. I notarize the documents that make up the estate plans and I maintain digital copies of all documents indefinitely. I have been drafting estate plans for over 20 years and I operate without a staff to keep my overhead low. You will find me to be personable, understanding and willing to listen. I enjoy helping my clients.

I find remarkable gratification in developing trusting andfriendly relationships with my clients.  I take pride in knowing myclients, their businesses, and what achievements they hope to attain forboth.  I am always accessible, responding to most client needs withinhours, if not minutes.. My skills and experience are diverse; I have managed corporate formations,commercial lease negotiations, copyright infringement issues, and employmentchallenges, to name just a few.  I bring to the table carefullegal work, solid judgment, and a strong ability to relate to my clients andtheir needs.. Originally from New York, I moved to San Diego after having livedin San Francisco, CA, Boulder, CO, and Tokyo, Japan.  I am happy to bepracticing business law now in the UTC area of San Diego.  Outside of my office, I pursue my interest in health and fitness, a remnant of my past working as a personal trainer.  I also have a background in music and art, playing piano since age four and being trained in pencil and ink drawing since age twelve.

I am committed to providing exceptional legal representation, and I am pleased to have served clients throughout Southern California since 1982. I limit my practice to the areas of the law I enjoy so that I can provide my clients with the finest legal representation at a reasonable cost.

I am an attorney with over 19 years experience, 13 of them pracitcing with big law firms in London and New York City.  I help a variety of small- to medium-size businesses on a broad range of legal areas, including intellectual property (patents, trademarks and copyright), commercial agreements, compliance and dispute resolution and litigation.  I have also acted as General Counsel for a consumer goods client prior to their sale, handling all legal matters that they faced.

Gabrielle De Santis Nield is the principal and partner of Nield Law Group with her husband/partner, Edgar R. Nield and has over 35 years of litigation experience. Along with her husband, Ms. Nield has experience litigating life-changing catastrophic injury claims, whether arising out of medical malpractice, automobile, motorcycle, and pedestrian accidents, premises liability, dog bites or wrongful death. Ms. Nield, along with the Nield Law Group team is dedicated to fighting for justice for victims who have suffered from the wrongful actions of others and strive to reach the maximum recovery for those victims.. Ms. Nield has a unique perspective and advantage to clients of the Nield Law Group APC, knowing how the insurance companies and their counsel work to mitigate an injured person’s recovery or dispute liability in the first place since she was a former partner in insurance defense firms and a former Assistant Counsel with State Farm Insurance Company. She is respected among her peers, both on the plaintiff and defense side of the aisle.. Ms. Nield is also an experienced litigator defending correctional officers and medical personnel for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who are sued by inmates institutionalized in the California State prisons and has defended former federal prison personnel. Ms. Nield also has experience in maritime defense.. Ms. Nield is licensed to practice law in California and the United State District Courts throughout California, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. She is a member of the California Bar Associations as well as the San Diego County Bar Association and North San Diego County Bar Association. Ms. Nield is a member of the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego.. Ms. Nield graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1978 and obtained her Juris Doctorate degree from Southwestern University in Los Angeles in May of 1983 successfully passing the California bar examination the first time around in December of 1983.. Gabrielle has tried numerous cases to a jury, participated in hundreds of mediations and arbitrations and is a past arbiter with the San Diego courts. She enjoys working out and spending time with her family and friends. Gabrielle also is involved with non-profit organizations that support parents and mothers who have lost their children.. Areas of Practice. Catastrophic injuriesMedical MalpracticePersonal InjuryWrongful DeathCar, Motorcycle and Pedestrian AccidentsPremises Liability/Slip and FallDog Bites. Correctional Law defense. Maritime Law defense. Bar AdmissionsCalifornia, 1983U.S. District Court Central District of CaliforniaU.S. District Court Southern District of CaliforniaU.S. District Court Northern District of CaliforniaU.S. District Court Eastern District of CaliforniaSupreme Court of CaliforniaU.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. EducationSouthwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, CaliforniaJ.D. – 1983Loyola Marymount UniversityB.A. – 1978Major: HistoryMinor: Political Science. Professional Associations and MembershipsSan Diego Bar Association, MemberState Bar of California, MemberNorth San Diego County Bar Association, MemberConsumer Lawyers of San Diego

Experienced business attorney with MBA as well; Harvard Law School graduate.  Former associate at leading California law firm Latham & Watkins, where he represented public and private companies on financings, mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, and tax planning. He also served as a senior executive for both public and private companies, having worked as in-house counsel for a public biotechnology company and as CEO and CFO for a private cleantech company, where he was involved in negotiating and documenting hundreds of transactions and agreements. During law school, he interned in the Boston office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Sabarsky is licensed to practice law in the State of California.

Ed Nield is a principal and partner of the Nield Law Group APC with his wife/partner, Gabrielle De Santis Nield, and has over 35 years litigation experience. Along with his wife, Mr. Nield has experience litigating life-changing catastrophic injury claims, whether arising out of medical malpractice, automobile, motorcycle, and pedestrian accidents, premises liability, dog bites or wrongful death. Mr. Nield, along with the Nield Law Group team is dedicated to fighting for justice for victims who have suffered from the wrongful actions of others and strive to reach the maximum recovery for those victims.. Ed and Gabrielle Nield have a unique perspective and advantage to clients of the Nield Law Group APC, knowing how the insurance companies and their counsel work to mitigate an injured person’s recovery or dispute liability in the first place since they both were former partners in insurance defense firms. They are respected among their peers, both on the plaintiff and defense side of the aisle.. Ed Nield has handled hundreds of medical negligence and other personal injury related cases over the course of his legal career, many of which were resolved by settlement or through successful jury verdicts. This has earned Mr. Nield the honor of admission into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).. In addition, Mr. Nield’s litigation experience includes appearances as lead counsel at hundreds of mediations, arbitrations and settlement conferences. He received his certification in mediation from the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution through Pepperdine University School of Law and serves as a mediator, arbitrator and Judge Pro Tem for the Riverside County Superior Courts. He has also provided mediation and arbitration services through the San Diego County Superior Court. Mr. Nield also conducts private mediations.. Ed Nield graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1976 and received a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Business. He received his Juris Doctorate Degree and Masters in Business Administration from University of Denver in 1983 and 1984.. Ed Nield is licensed to practice law in California, Colorado and Washington. He is a member of all the California United States District Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the San Diego County and North San Diego County Bar, Riverside County Bar and Consumer Attorneys of San Diego.

Dr. Paul J. Pearah is a member of the California Bar and has been licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 2004.. Dr. Pearah‘s experience includes invention disclosure harvesting and patentability evaluations; patent application drafting and prosecution for clients ranging from individual inventors to large corporations; patent portfolio management; patent litigation and interference matters; performing competitive technology, IP landscape, and freedom to operate analysis; due diligence for mergers and acquisitions; alternative dispute resolution (ADR); and face-to-face infringement lawsuit settlement negotiations with multi-billion dollar competitors.. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE. Keen business and technical insights into clients’ issues and concerns derive from a previous career as a Silicon Valley engineer and technical manager working on modern technologies in the semiconductor, nanotechnology, thin film materials, laser/light-emitting diode (LED), optoelectronics and telecommunications industries, as well as an in-house position at a San Diego medical device company.. Dr. Pearah’s extensive corporate experience provides him with exceptional depth of empathy and understanding to better serve clients’ needs. Business acumen, technical depth and intellectual property skills have been sharpened by 5 years at Hewlett-Packard Optoelectronics as a Development Engineer and Project manager; 5 years as Sr. Scientist at a supplier of advanced compound semiconductor materials for microwave and optoelectronic device applications; performing Sr. Patent Agent work at medical device company Dexcom; and 3 years as Director of Technology & Intellectual Property of a small Silicon Valley semiconductor company; as well as 6 years in the Qualcomm Patent Department.. Dr. Pearah is passionate about the thrill of discovery and invention. Prior to entering the patent practice, he conducted groundbreaking research and engineering work in lasers, transistors and other electronic devices; the growth and properties of new crystalline “compound semiconductor” materials; optoelectronics; and nanotechnology; and published approximately fifty research articles in various scientific journals such as IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Physical Review, Journal of Crystal Growth, Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Letters. Dr. Pearah’s firsthand understanding of the dedication, focus, and years of persistence that are generally required to produce a significant invention ensure that your intellectual property will be properly captured and ardently protected.. EDUCATION. Dr. Pearah is well prepared to assimilate a broad range of technologies including those with which he has limited previous familiarity. In addition to the wealth of technical expertise gained while working in industry, Dr. Pearah’s technical foundation was provided through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he earned Ph.D and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics.. Dr. Pearah is a graduate of University of San Diego School of Law, from which he was awarded a J.D. specialized in Intellectual Property. There he received the CALI Excellence Award for the top grade in Corporate Innovation & Legal Policy for his analysis of emergent legal issues pertaining to self-driving cars (a.k.a. “autonomous vehicles” – see Publications tab for a link to the law journal article that grew out of this work). In addition, Dr. Pearah pursued for-credit graduate level Electrical Engineering and Physics coursework at MIT, and for-credit courses at Harvard University.. PERSONAL INTERESTS. In his free time, Dr. Pearah enjoys tinkering with new and vintage audio electronics, amateur musicianship, bass fishing and SCUBA diving.

Debra Reilly received her J.D. in 1989 from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she was an Editor for the San Diego Law Review in 1988-89; she authored a law review article titled Reversal of a RICO Predicate Offense on Appeal: Should the RICO Count Be Vacated?, which is published in Volume 27, Issue 1, of the San Diego Law Review. She was also a Finalist in a San Diego School of Law Moot Court competition.. After graduation, Ms. Reilly worked as an Extern Law Clerk for Justice David R. Thompson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before joining the Orange County-based law firm Murtaugh Miller Meyer & Nelson LLP from 1990 to 1999, where she became a partner practicing employment law on behalf of employers and management, which included the performance of workplace investigations. In 1999, Ms. Reilly moved to San Diego to serve for one year as the Research Attorney to United States District Judge Larry A. Burns of the United States District Court, Southern District of California. In that capacity, she researched and drafted proposed judicial opinions and court orders and conducted discovery conferences with counsel of record on court cases involving the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (42 U.S.C. § 1983), Copyright/Patent Infringement, Social Security Appeals, Federal Tort Claims Act, and Writs of Habeas Corpus.. Ms. Reilly then joined a Mission Viejo law firm as a partner for three years heading up the firm’s employment law department before eventually opening her own employment law practice in 2002. In Ms. Reilly’s representation of public entities, corporations, management, and employees, she has handled all facets of employment litigation, including trial work. She has handled numerous administrative proceedings before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the California Labor Commission’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the Employment Development Department, and the City of Santa Ana Personnel Board.. Ms. Reilly has been conducting internal workplace investigations since 1994 throughout California and now does it fulltime. Throughout her legal career, she has conducted over 900 investigations for numerous municipalities, counties, water and sanitation districts, vector control districts, fire departments, police departments, public and private universities, community college districts, public and private school districts (elementary and secondary), transportation authorities, the United States Postal Service (holding a “sensitive” security clearance by the Postal Inspector’s Office), and many private sector employers (including several Fortune 500 companies). Given Ms. Reilly’s experience in conducting police and fire department investigations, she is well versed in providing the appropriate pre-interview notices and admonitions pursuant to the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act, and Lybarger Admonitions.. Types of Investigations Handled By Debra Reilly. • Waste and abuse in government contracts• Violation of contract procurement policies; contract splitting to avoid threshold of Board scrutiny; violation of competitive bidding laws (Public Contract Code)• Misuse and abuse of public funds, gift of public funds, credit card misuse• Misuse of public vehicle, travel expense abuse, expense reimbursement fraud• Employee violations of Penal Code 424 (misappropriation of public funds), Penal Code 72 (presenting false claim to Public Board or Officer), Government Code 8314 (private person’s use of public resources)• Violations of code of ethics, violation of conflict of interest policies• Unauthorized, improper use of public property, equipment, or funds for private purposes; improper use of authority for personal gain• Bribery or the receiving of or the giving of other unlawful gifts or gratuities Falsification of time cards• Counterfeiting of tennis passes to high-level tennis tournament• Wage & Hour investigations• Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation based on FEHA, Title VII, ADA, Rehabilitation Act, ADEA, California Code of Regulations “Title V” (sex, race, color, age, ethnicity, pregnancy, disability, religion/creed, national origin, marital status, etc.)• Sexual assault/battery• First Amendment/freedom of expression issues• Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities / Failure to Engage in Interactive Process• California Whistleblower Statute (Calif. Labor Code ). Testimony. Ms. Reilly has testified in deposition, arbitration, and jury trials concerning the findings of her own internal investigations, all of which have been upheld by the triers of fact (arbitrators and juries). She has qualified, and testified, as an expert witness concerning “standard practices” in conducting internal investigations involving employee misconduct, harassment, discrimination, and retaliation, as well as appropriate billing practices of investigators.. Publications, Presentations, Professional Memberships. Ms. Reilly has published numerous articles on employment law and internal workplace investigations. She has presented numerous educational seminars and webinars sponsored by the State Bar of California, the Association of Workplace Investigators, the Orange County Bar Association, the San Diego County Bar Association, the Society of Human Resources Management San Diego (SHRM-San Diego), the San Diego Employers Association Roundtable, and , on how to conduct thorough workplace investigations.. Ms. Reilly is a member of the California State Bar (Labor and Employment Law section), the San Diego County Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law section), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Society of Human Resources Management (“SHRM”), the San Diego Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management, the Association of Title IX Administrators, Orange County Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law section), and a past member of the North County Personnel Association of San Diego.. Ms. Reilly is a founding Board Member of the Association of Workplace Investigators (“AWI”), where she served on the Board for six years, and she served as the Chair of its Publications Committee and Editor-in-Chief of The AWI Journal from 2009 through March 2013. Since March 2013, she has been the Vice-Chair of the AWI Publications Committee, and continues to be an Editor and a continuing author of publications within The AWI Journal. She served as the Vice-Chair of the Webinars/Seminars Committee of AWI from November 2014 to December 2015, and she was a member of the Guiding Principles Committee of AWI from June 2014 to December 2015.. Since January 2010, Ms. Reilly has been certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (“SPHR”) by the Human Resources Certification Institute. She also received a Certificate of Attendance (40-Hours) from the National Training Institute of the Association of Workplace Investigators in June 2012. She was a full-time faculty member at the weeklong National Training Institute of the Association of Workplace Investigators in February 2015 in Sonoma, CA, where she presented modules on Public Sector Investigations and Making Credibility Determinations.

After spending his childhood in Oceanside and graduating from Oceanside High School, Richard Cornell went on to attend Loyola Marymount University graduating Cum Laude and then recieved his Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego School of Law.

About Curran & Curran Law: Michael and Susan Curran are zealous advocates who prepare for every case as if it is going to go to trial. Full preparation for trial puts Curran & Curran Law’s clients in the strongest position to discuss options along the way (such as mediation or alternative dispute resolution), so that they achieve the best possible outcome in each case. Curran & Curran Law brings over 25 years of litigation and experience in Contracts, Labor/Employment, Personal Injury and Aviation Civil Litigation. Curran & Curran Law has been successful in reaching verdicts as high as$6.225 million to several hundreds of thousands of dollars in various arbitrations and mediation settlements.