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Mr. Stephen Vokshori graduated Magna Cum Laude from USC’s Marshall School of Business and elected to attend the UCLA School of Law for his Juris Doctor.  While in UCLA’s Business Law and Policy Program, he exhibited academic excellence in Real Estate, Corporate, and Finance law, and became a recipient of the Stephen E. Claman Scholarship.Mr. Vokshori’s work experience has included being managing partner at Taylor & Vokshori, a prominent real estate law firm, in-house legal counsel for a sizeable commercial and residential real estate company, litigation consultant with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and litigation associate at Demler Armstrong & Rowland. As Managing Attorney of Vokshori Law Group, Mr. Vokshori utilizes his unique background in law, accounting, finance, and business when encountering complex real estate transactions, bankruptcy litigation, or business planning in anticipating and formulating solutions for his clients.  He brings a strategic perspective to his work that enables clients to understand the issues they face in new ways.  All the while, Mr. Vokshori understands that clients want to be kept apprised of their case and he makes time to personally meet with them and provide frequent status reports.Mr. Vokshori represents clients in all facets of bankruptcy proceedings and litigation, as well as insolvency issues in business transactions, and he represents debtors and secured lenders in their in- and out-of-court restructurings.  He also represents distressed homeowners who have been victimized by the proliferation of sub-prime and predatory lending as well as those who have witnessed double-digit percentage declines in property values which has stripped the equity out of their homes. Mr. Vokshori regularly advises business owners and entrepreneurs in all of their business transactions including matters relating to business planning and growth, and provides advice and legal services at all stages including startup, business expansion, transition planning and execution.  He has wide-ranging experience in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate.  He is also experienced in estate planning and trust administration, including business succession planning for family and other closely held enterprises.Mr. Vokshori understands the importance of community service and regularly devotes significant time to delivering needed pro bono legal assistance.  Throughout his legal career, he has volunteered his services to individuals fighting against corporate and state powers.  Volunteering with Public Counsel’s general relief advocacy program, Mr. Vokshori argued to protect the rights of people in the welfare system that were homeless or at risk of becoming so.  Mr. Vokshori also provided free legal assistance to UCLA students through UCLA’s Student Legal Services program, counseling students on a wide variety of legal issues. Currently, Mr. Vokshori spends his free time assisting low-income tenants fight against illegal evictions and unlawful detainer actions – a troubling corollary of the subprime mortgage foreclosure crisis.  He also dedicates time to volunteer at Public Counsel's Consumer Law and Debtor Assistance Projects in providing advice and counsel to debtors that are filing for bankruptcy without an attorney.

Gregory M. Salvato   is a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law and the founding member of Salvato Law Offices, a litigation and bankruptcy firm located in downtown Los Angeles and Orange County, California, specializing in creditor rights and business litigation.. Mr. Salvato has litigated matters in the Bankruptcy or Federal District Courts in Arizona, Coloado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Texas, and before the California Superior Courts, Courts of Appeal, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.. He has been a Bankruptcy Specialist since 2002, certified by the California Board of Legal Specialization, State Bar of California and is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification.  Mr. Salvato  is the former chair of the Bankruptcy Law Advisory Commission of the State Bar of California. He is Martindale-Hubbell A-V rated, and Los Angeles Magazine named him a "Southern California Super Lawyer" from 2004 through 2020.. Mr. Salvato is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s sections on Commercial Law and Bankruptcy, Litigation, and Remedies (Chair, 2002-2003), the Italian American Lawyers Association (President 2019, Board of Trustees), Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, Orange County Bankruptcy Forum,  California Bankruptcy Forum, Financial Lawyers Conference, American Bankruptcy Institute, and American Bar Association.. He received his B.A. magna cum laude in 1976 from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and his J.D. in 1986 from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, where he was the Chief Articles Editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.. Published cases include:  In re Amwest Ins. Group, Inc. (L. Tim Wagner, Liquidator v. Amwest Ins. Group), 285 B.R. 447 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 2002); In re First T.D. & Investments, Inc. (Neilson v. Chang),  253 F. 3d 520 (9th Cir. 2001); In re First T.D. & Investments, Inc. (Neilson v. Chang), 218 B.R. 92 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 1999), In re Cobe (Smith v. Cobe), 229 B.R. 15 (BAP 9th Cir. 1998); In re Colonial Realty Company (Colonial Realty Co. v. River Bank America), 122 B.R. 1 (Bankr. D. Conn. 1990); In re Peregrine Entertainment Group (National Peregrine, Inc. v. Capitol Federal Savings), 116 B.R. 194 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 1990).

Eminent Domain attorney Mark R. Fox is a skilled litigator who focuses exclusively on representing commercial business and property owners in eminent domain matters.. Over the course of his career, Mark R. Fox has obtained tens of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for his clients from various government agencies throughout California. Mark R. Fox has represented owners of commercial property, multi-family residential property, farmland, industrial property, vacant land, special use property, and high-rise office buildings.   He has also represented a full range of businesses including liquor stores, automotive repair shops, smog testing centers, recycling centers, motels, restaurants, night clubs, churches, industrial businesses of all sizes, retail stores, warehouses, multi-acre manufacturing plants, medical facilities, nursing homes, funeral homes, and various food and clothing markets.

Bret R. Carter concentrates his practice on estate planning, probate and trust administration matters. He also has significant business and real estate expertise and advises his clients in corporate, business and real estate transactions.. Mr. Carter earned his bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and his law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law, where he was a member of The Order of Barristers and The Moot Court Board. Mr. Carter was awarded the American Bar Association Young Lawyer Award Achievement (1990) and is a former member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association Board of Governors.. Mr. Carter is a member of the State Bar of California, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also a member of the Los Angeles Venture Capital Association and the Apartment Owner’s Association of Greater Los Angeles. In addition, he is active in numerous community affairs groups including Rotary Club of Santa Monica.