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THE CARREON FIRM is a Los Angeles County/Orange County litigation law firm that handles a variety of legal claims for consumers, employees and those injured throughout California and across the nation. Our practice includes class action lawsuits (involving employment, consumer fraud, product defect and unfair business practice claims), group-non class employment claims (discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, etc.), catastrophic personal injury claims (involving accidents, property owner negligence, defective products, etc.), individual consumer fraud claims and elder abuse claims (involving physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation of funds or property, neglect and abandonment). We also specialize in longshore worker both from an injury and employment standpoint.

Representation of clients in all aspects of civil litigation including pre-litigation settlement, mediation and arbitration, and proceedings through trial and appeal. Nearly 20 years of experience with litigation, arbitrations, mediations and trials for civil matters in both California State and/or Federal Courts and have resolved disputes with favorable dispositions for my clients.

Mr. Michel is Senior Partner at Michel & Associates, P.C. His practice focuses on adversarial litigation and regulatory compliance advice in the fields of firearms law, civil rights, land use, and environmental law. He has been lead counsel in over 50 jury trials. Mr. Michel is recognized as one of the leading national authorities on firearms laws. For over two decades he has played a significant role in advocating and defending individual civil and constitutional rights, and particularly Second Amendment rights, and in helping to shape related legislation. He has been instrumental in crafting some of the most important legal challenges to legislation that infringes on rights guaranteed by the Constitution.. Mr. Michel represents many of the most prominent shooting sports and self-defense civil rights associations in the world, including the National Rifle Association, California Rifle & Pistol Association, Second Amendment Law Center, Second Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of California and has represented many different clients in high profile cases that garnered significant media attention. He is a regular commentator and frequent contributor to national media discussions, and has appeared as a spokesperson for the NRA, CRPA, other associations, and individual clients on dozens of video and radio interviews and in thousands of newspaper articles.. Mr. Michel has taught Firearms Law and Law Practice Management courses as an adjunct professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law. He is the author of the book California Gun Laws – A Guide to State and Federal Firearm Regulations.. Mr. Michel began his career as a judicial clerk with U.S. District Court Judge William J. Rea in Los Angeles. He worked as a criminal prosecutor for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office as well as for several Southern California cities, and as an advocate with the Los Angeles Federal Public Defender’s office. Mr. Michel also practiced environmental and general civil litigation as an attorney at the renowned international law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, LLP. While at O’Melveny, Mr. Michel represented all manner of clients, from individuals to multinational corporations. His varied experience included representing Exxon Corporation in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and serving as Staff Counsel to the “Christopher Commission” investigating the Los Angeles Police Department in the wake of the Rodney King incident under the leadership of former Secretary of State Warren Christopher.. Mr. Michel graduated near the top of his class from Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1980 and then from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1989, again near the top of his class. In law school he won two prestigious awards for trial advocacy and writing skills, one through the United States Supreme Court.. Mr. Michel has been profiled in recognition of his work in numerous newspaper, magazine, radio, TV and social media platforms.

John J. Gilligan, founding partner of Gilligan Frisco & Trutanich, LLP, has extensive experience specializing in family law, probate litigation, and estate planning since 1981.  Mr. Gilligan graduated cum laude and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from State University of New York at Brockport, and obtained his Juris Doctorate from Western State University. He is a Certified Family Law Specialist since 1997. Only 10% of California’s family law attorneys have earned this additional education and title.

From working at a large law firm, to opening his own practice, Attorney George L. Fernandez has represented over one thousand clients who have faced serious legal consequences in our flawed criminal justice system; clients who have been injured, who are in need of debt relief, who have custody and child support disputes, who are seeking and have been served with restraining orders, and who have landlord/tenants disputes.

Arthur A. Leonard is a 1981 graduate of Tulane University Law School (cum laude), and has since then been primarily engaged in the practice of admiralty and maritime law and related areas, including personal injury and the claims under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. He is a member of the bars of the states of Louisiana and California.   Mr. Leonard has been a proctor member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States since 1982 and is a past member of the Association’s Stevedoring and Terminal Operations Committee. He has been in private practice throughout his career with the exception of several years during which he was in house counsel for a petroleum refining company and marine fuel terminal company. Mr. Leonard has served as lead counsel in jury and non jury trials in the State and federal courts of California, has participated in jury trials in the federal courts of Louisiana, and is a past participant of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Trial Attorney Project. He has also handled a number of cases before the appellate courts of California, Louisiana and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Reported cases include: Sanborn v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc., 448 So.2d 91 (La. 1984); Mori Seiki USA, Inc. v. M.V. Alligator Triumph, 990 F.2d 444 (9th Cir. 1993); Freeman & Mills, Inc. v. Belcher Oil Co., 11 85 (1995); Motorola, Inc. v. MSAS Cargo Intern., Inc., 42 F.Supp. 2d. 952 (N.D.Cal. 1998); Dependable Highway Exp., Inc. v. Navigators Ins. Co., 498 F.3d 1059 (9th Cir. 2007); and City of Long Beach v. Stevedoring Services of America, 157 672 (2007). Mr. Leonard is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell, the highest rating from the primary national legal rating service.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Long Beach and surrounding areas.