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I have extensive immigration law experience. I have helped everyone from market research analysts and farm workers to engineers and entertainers start their lives in the United States. I have litigated cases with the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and helped others fight for their lives and freedom before the Executive Office for Immigration Review aka Immigration Court. As a trial tested former public defender I understand what it means to be up against the system and I will advocate for you every step of the way.

I have extensive experience serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel in financings that include:. ·         General obligation bonds (for school districts). ·         Tax allocation bonds. ·         Lease revenue bonds. ·         Certificates of participation. I represent local government entities throughout California, including school districts, cities, successor agencies to former redevelopment agencies and special districts. I also represent national and regional investment banking firms in municipal finance transactions. Additionally, I have substantial experience with 501(c)(3) organizations, including their formation and the exempt application process with the Internal Revenue Service.

I have ejoyed a 24-year career in California's constantly evolving area of insurance coverage litigation, focusing on novel and complex issues involving multi-million dollar disputes.  I have represented some of the largest and best known insurance carriers in the United States in cases pending in state and federal courts.  In addition, my practice involves representing companies and individuals involved in a wide range of business and commercial disputes.

I have devoted my legal career to representing a diverse array of employees, from personal trainers to personnel managers, valets to veterinarians, and cashiers to CEOs who were unlawfully subject to employment discrimination, harassment, whistleblower retaliation, wage and hour violations, and wrongful termination.. As every client faces unique challenges in addressing their legal claims, I tailor my representation to the needs of each client.

I have been representing victims of negligence for over 35 years and have achieved outstanding results for my clients in trial as well as settlement, arbitration and mediation.  I have volunteered my services as a settlement officer in the Superior Court for 30 years and have settled hundreds of cases for other attorneys and their clients. I have also served as a Judge Pro Tem in Small Claims Court.. My practice includes the representation of individuals injured in every type of vehicular accident and in a wide variety of other situations including:. Please visit my website at and read some articles I have written to assist you in the event of an injury or to answer questions concerning insurance coverage and other matters related to my practice.  Should you have any questions feel free to address them to my email address:. Thank you for taking the time to read my profile and be assured that all inquiries are handled confidentially and all cases are taken on a contingency basis where you will never be charged a fee unless we achieve a recovery on your behalf.. RON PAPELL

I have been practicing law since 2001 and my focus has always been on the needs of the client.  My experience is extensive and varied.  I primarily provide family law and mediation services.. I provide quality legal service throughout Los Angeles County.

I have been practicing law since 1995.  I have spent much of my time helping fathers who are in arrears with their child support payments.  Many of them have had their wages garnished, drivers' licenses suspended or levies on their bank accounts.  I help get their lives back on track by placing them on a reasonable payment plan and releasing their driver's and professional licenses so that they can continue living a normal life.  I can also help modify your support payments and reverse some of the judgments made against you if there is a basis for it.  At times clients are charged with a misdemeanor for non-payment of child support for which we also help resolve their cases in order not to plead to a misdemeanor charge.. Many of our clients are out of state clients whom we end up representing without them ever traveling to Los Angeles.  This saves clients a great deal of time and money and that is one of the reasons that I built a very informative website for them so that they can learn about me and how I can help them.. We also help retrieve licenses for clients who have suspended licenses due to either non-payment of a ticket or tickets, too many points on their driver's licenses, hold on their license or warrants out for their arrest for neglecting a ticket.  We are 98% successful in getting these client's their licenses back which is crutial especially in LA.  We handle all tickets and cases from beginning to end with no appearances necessary by the client.  This saves our clients a great deal of time by not standing in long line or waiting in the courtrooms.. I also help commercial driver's licensees with their tickets by either attemtpting to dismiss or to lower their tickets to a no-point violation since the option of traffic school is not available to them.. Our firm also handles a great number of DUI case with best results in addition to all misdemeanor and felony criminal charges as well as personhal Injury and accident case.. Our reputation and keeping happy clients is of the outmost importance to me and I take great pleasure in helping clients get their lives back on track.

I have been practicing immigration and naturalization law for 38 years. My associates are my twin brother Arthur and his son Armand. I specialize in family, business and deportation cases.  I am a memeber of the State Bar of California, the U.S. District Court, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.  From 1987 to 1990 I served on the State Bar Immigration and Nationality Law Advisory Commission.  I have lectured a law school class.  My office is located in Downtown Los Angeles and offers a knowledgeable, professional and caring atmosphere.  My fees are reasonably structured.

I have been licensed to practice law since 1996.  I am licensed in Ohio, Indiana, and in my home state of California.  After raising a family in the Midwest, it was time for me to come home and return to California.  I focus my practice on protecting the rights of those facing either civil or criminal liability.  My professional objective is to zealously advocate for my clients at each phase of their case.

I have been in practice since 1978. My practice focused on family law from the beginning.  I became a family specialist in 1984 and have been since.  I have been the Chair of the Family Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and have held all the officer positions in the section.  I am a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers as well as the International Academy.  I am listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Family Law as well as Super Lawyers for many years.  I am rated AV with Martindale Hubbell and have been for over 25 years.  I have written and spoken on family law issues for various educational groups and am an editorial consultant for Lexis/Nexis's Family Law Monthly.

I have been in family law practice in Los Angeles since 1977, upon graduation from UCLA School of Law.  I began practice as an associate with Stuart Walzer, then "The Dean of Family Law."  I left to become an associate and then a partner heading the family law practice at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, where I practiced for 11 years.  I was a partner at Los Angeles' largest family law firm Trope and Trope, where I met Larry Ginsberg.  Larry and I left and started our own firm together in 1996 and we have been a successful and respected family law firm ever since.  We now have 11 lawyers in our all-family law firm.  We represent clients in dissolution of marriage, paternity proceedings, post-judgment modifications of support and custody and pre-marital agreements.  Our firm handles many international family law matters and complex property division issues for high net worth individuals.

I have been directly involved in many billions of dollars of real estate transactions as a senior executive of three national organizations, and a practicing attorney.  My clients rely on me for extraordinary, cost-effectiv service provided with the highest degree of professional excellence.  More detailed information and client testimonials can be found on my website ().

I have been an attorney for over 12 years. I have over 10 years of experience in employment law, business/corporate litigation and consulting. I have litigated multiple jury trials to successful conclusions. In the 8th grade when I began my school's mock trial program I knew I wanted to be a lawyer. My undergraduate degree was earned at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo where I studied Political Science in order to position myself for law school. I attended Southwestern University School of Law here in Los Angeles where I received awards for trial advocacy, exceptional grades and I graduated with honors. I began practicing in 2006 and by 2007 I began to hone my skills in employment law. In 2008 I began practicing business litigation. I truly love my job. I advocate my client's matters with zeal and professionalism. If you retain me I will do the same for you. My rates and billable hours are fair and my skills are valuable. I am a Los Angeles native and have spent my entire career in the Los Angeles area. My firm is small and you will deal directly with me throughout your case. My office is in downtown L.A. but I usually visit my clients at their place of business. I find that learning the culture of my clients' business is a great way to determine how to proceed with their matter. I practice throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

I have been a practicing lawyer fo over 30 years, specializing in business litigatoin with a subspecialty in insurance coverage and defense of insurance litigaiton. I hanlde a variety of cases including breach of fiduciary duty, real estate, construction. professional liability and shareholder and partnership disputes. I have taken cases to trial however I have extensivie experieince in settling cases through mediation. i am a member of a firm with offices throughout California and in New York and in Las Vegas. I am a member of the California and Nevada bar. Our firm has a depth of experience in other areas of law which I can draw upon to fully service a client's needs.

I have been a divorce attorney since 2003. After being certified in the field of Domestic Violence, in 2000, I joined the Legal Aid Society of Santa Ana, where I provided legal services to domestic violence victims. In 2005, I joined a Family Law firm, which mostly catered to celebrity clients in complex cases. Now, as a sole practitioner, I am able to represent all prospective clients, regardless of their handle all aspects of a divorce, and my specialties are cases involving child custody and domestic violence. I have obtained countless restraining orders; but have also defended countless clients in cases where restraining orders were not warranted. I also handle mediation, and have represented clients in premarital agreement cases. I have integrity and great standing before all judges in the Downtown, Santa Monica, and Van Nuys courthouses. I charge on a sliding scale. My billing rate is $275 per hour.  Most clients have retained me in the past for my skills in cross-examination and trial experience, my dedication to a child's best interests, and my conscientious stance toward a divorce case: if settlement is a viable option, opt for it... don't send your attorney's kids to college; send your own kids to college.

I have always been dedicated to criminal defense.  I have represented numerous people through the criminal justice system who were accused of offenses including catalytic converter theft, domestic violence, torture, police shootings, robbery, narcotics trafficking, and homicide.  I have dedicated myself to studying the intricacies of California's STEP ACT and gang crimes.  I have worked with some of the state's top experts in gang and organized crime allegations.. In addition to membership in the California State Bar and the California State Bar Criminal Law section, I am also a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the California Public Defender's Association.. I studied both political science and psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and later at the University of San Diego, where I received by Bachelor of Arts degree.  I focused my studies on argument, story-telling, cognitive psychology (which includes the study of unreliability of eye-witness testimony, the fallacies of light-bulb memories, the intricacies of memory, and perception.). I conducted the same independent research at Clark University, a private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, and at the University of San Diego, a Catholic University in San Diego, California, on jury behavior.  Specifically, I studied the effect of race when jurors are deciding whether or not to impose the death penalty for felony murder.  I studied the intricacies of DNA, civil rights, and philosophies behind race and society.. At McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California, I focused on criminal law and graduated with a certificate in Criminal Law in May 2010.  After interning with the Stanislaus County Public Defender's Office in my first year of law school, I became a certified law student and was able to take cases to trial.  I interned at the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of California (2008-2009), the Stanislaus County Public Defender (2008-2010), the San Joaquin Public  Defender (2009) and ultimately did my post-bar internship at the San Diego County Public Defender (2010).

I have a wide range of experience representing individuals in criminal and civil litigation, and am well versed in family law and divorce matters. Although I am a litigator at heart, I also handle transactional matters such as drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts.. I started clerking for Braunstein & Braunstein, PC when I was in law school. I also served as a certified law clerk with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, where I gained extensive experience in criminal litigation. After law school, I worked for an insurance defense firm and later for a plaintiff’s law firm, where she represented employees in disputes with employers and insurance companies. These experiences have equipped me with the knowledge and ability to litigate matters spanning multiple areas of law.

I handle civil and criminal tax controversy administrative practice and litigation, including audit defense and collection matters. I represent business entities and individuals before state and federal taxing authorities, including the IRS, Department of Justice, United State’s Attorney’s Office, California State Board of Equalization, California Franchise Tax Board, California Employment Development Department and California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Previously, I worked at the United State’s Attorney’s Office as an Assistant United States Attorney for over 20 years.

I handle business, employment, and real estate litigation cases for both plaintiffs and defendants.

I handle a variety of cases for Bordin Semmer LLP, representing both private and public entities, as well as individuals.  I focus on personal injury, employment, and government entity defense.  Prior to joining Bordin Semmer, I gained valuable experience representing plaintiffs in cases involving class action wage and hour laws, personal injury, insurance coverage and bad faith, and employment law.. I earned my law degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.  Throughout all three years of law school, I participated in the Young Lawyers Program, where I mentored high school students and taught them trial skills which they applied in a final mock trial. Prior to attending law school, I earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Oregon.. While in law school, I held externships with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, the California Attorney General’s Office, and a private personal injury firm. Upon graduation, I became a post-Bar Fellow with the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), where I honed my litigation skills working for a defense firm, a plaintiff firm, and Honorable Suzanne Bruguera of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

I grew up in the former USSR where he graduated from High School and received training as a Physician Assistant. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1989. Vadim received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a double major in Biology and Russian Studies, from the University of Rochester in 1993, where he graduated cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest, “by invitation only” honor society founded in 1776. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1997 where he served as an associate editor of the High Technology Law Journal. Vadim began his legal career at a multinational law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in the firm’s Palo Alto office where he represented established and start-up technology companies in a variety of transactional and litigation matters, including private and public financing, securities and IP litigation.. In 1998, I relocated to Los Angeles where he worked at a number of Hollywood agencies developing and guiding careers of up-and-coming actors, writers and directors. I returned to the practice of law in 2003 and has developed an expertise in representing individual and institutional health care providers in a variety of litigation, transactional and regulatory matters, including medical malpractice, labor and employment, general business and commercial litigation, class actions, state and federal managed care regulations (HIPAA, Knox-Keene Act, Medicare certification and reimbursement), fraud and elder abuse, payee/payor contractual disputes, and unfair competition. I also have an extensive knowledge of the regulatory framework regarding pharmaceuticals and vaccines and has represented a major vaccine manufacturer in products liability actions in both State and Federal Courts. My formal training as a Physician Assistant (in the former USSR), coupled with his undergraduate degree in Biology and continuing interest in the biomedical sciences, has made him a particularly effective advocate on behalf of clients in the health care and related industries.. I am admitted to practice before all state courts in California, as well as the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel.. When not busy feeding my ever expanding hunger for anything related to technology, internet, medicine/biology, history, politics and music, I enjoy startling people with sarcastic remarks delivered in a nice, non-threatening Russian accent.

I grew up in Beverly Hills where I attended El Rodeo elementary school and Beverly Hills High School. I received my undergraduate degree from George Washington University before earning my Juris Doctorate from Southwestern Law School. Today, I reside in West Hollywood where I am proud to have established deep roots within the local community.. It was during my first year of law school in 2005 when I developed a keen interest in family law. While working at the American University Civil Practice Clinic as a student attorney, I was responsible for assisting low-income clients with a wide variety of family law issues, including divorce, custody litigation, and child support. I continued to work solely in the family law field throughout the duration of my time in law school, assisting with the day-to-day operations of a small Los Angeles family law firm where I was also responsible for meeting with clients and drafting motions.. Upon graduating law school and being admitted to the California Bar in 2009, I continued to work at this same Los Angeles firm, practicing family law as an associate attorney. In spite of my associate status, I was given my own caseload, and managed each of my cases from Petition to Judgment. This included both preparing for and attending trials as well as drafting Judgments. In 2013, I joined the preeminent Los Angeles female-owned family law firm, Meyer, Olson, Lowy & Meyers (MOLM) as an associate attorney where I continued to manage my own complex family law caseload as well as provide assistance to the partners in family law litigation involving international disputes, jurisdictional issues, high-asset property division, complex custody litigation, and division of community estates.. It is through this experience that I have gained a very deep understanding of the complexity of family matters, often working closely with forensic accountants on complex financial issues including business valuations; support calculations, and various other financial matters. Working closely with mental health professionals, I’ve gained firsthand experience with issues related to custody; including custody evaluations, drafting parenting plans, determining a child's developmental needs, and advanced co-parenting strategies.

I graduated from University of Montana with a BA in Politicial Science and a minor in American Government in 2002 and am a Phi Delta Phi member, Clayberg Inn, 2002 recipient and received a Western Montana Bar Association Scholarship.  I graduated from the University of Montana School of Law in 2005.  I am licensed in the state of California.. Back to List...

I graduated from UC Berkeley in economics and earned by law degree at the University of Michigan.  I began my practice at Manatt, Phelps as a commercial litigator.  I have also practiced white colar criminal law.  In my current practice, we focus on class action plaintiffs' litigation. I specialize in consumer, labor and securities cases.. I am a frequent lecturer on issues pertaining to class action litigation and trial techniques.  I was co-chair of the Bridgeport Class Action Conference in 2013 (SF).  I am recognized as a Super Lawyer (2014).. I am always available to discuss a potential case.

I focus on patent, copyright, and trademark litigation and prosecution.  I also have extenstive experience in general civil litigation matters, such as contract disputes.. My clients are domestic and international.. I have handled matters before the International Trade Commission.. I am admitted to practice in numerous State and Federal Courts.. I am a registered Patent Attorney.