California Lawyers Michele B. to Michelle Carder

Firm: Klein & Wilson

326 Old Newport Blvd , Newport Beach , California 92663

Practice Areas: Litigation

In addition to being one of the more accomplished federal and state court law and motion attorneys in Orange County, Michelle L. Carder has successfully arbitrated, tried, and argued on appeal numerous cases ranging from insurance coverage and bad faith to real estate and general business disputes. Ms. Carder is a "client's lawyer" who has built a reputation for developing novel, unexpected legal arguments which minimize exposure for defendants and maximize probabilities of success for plaintiffs. She is known for her top flight writing and oral advocacy skills, which have resulted in an outstanding record of winning seemingly unwinnable cases, as a matter of law, before or during trial. As an insurance coverage lawyer, Ms. Carder has provided critical advice to national insurance carriers and guidance and presentations to Fortune 500 companies in connection with complex, high exposure cases and pre litigation coverage disputes. She has served as coverage counsel for first and third party coverage matters venued in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Arizona, Virginia, Florida, and South Carolina.. Ms. Carder first met Gerald A. Klein and Mark B. Wilson in 2002 as an opponent. Impressed with Ms. Carder's extensive knowledge of insurance coverage and her fearless approach to advocacy, Klein & Wilson continued over the years to consult with Ms. Carder to the benefit of their clients. Equally impressed by Klein & Wilson's unparalleled legal ethics and reputation as outstanding trial lawyers, Ms. Carder decided to join the firm in 2015, adding her experience as an insurance litigator to the firm's already impressive depth.. Prior to joining Klein & Wilson, Ms. Carder spent more than 17 years with the firm Hines Carder, where she was instrumental in building the firm's successful insurance coverage and bad faith litigation practice. While practicing at Hines Carder, Ms. Carder won numerous summary judgment and dispositive pre trial motions that postured cases for trial wins and extremely favorable settlements. She was lead counsel for the trial resulting in the firm's first insurance bad faith defense verdict in 2014, winning the matter after the close of evidence on directed verdict. Ms. Carder has successfully argued appeals before the Second District Court of Appeal, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and has also tried and arbitrated legal malpractice and business litigation matters. Before joining Hines Carder, Ms. Carder was an associate at two plaintiffs' firms where she practiced in the areas of general tort, medical malpractice, and insurance bad faith. While working as a plaintiff's lawyer, Ms. Carder first chaired bench and jury trials, deposed hundreds of witnesses, and arbitrated dozens of cases before finishing her third year of practice.. Ms. Carder obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law where she was a member of the Moot Court Honor Board and served as the Washington State Attorney General's law clerk for the trial of the seminal Native American treaty rights case, United States v. State of Washington. Ms. Carder received her undergraduate degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.. In addition to her successes as a lawyer, Ms. Carder has been an accomplished equestrian. She won the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Association all around championship twice, was a world championship finalist, and won state championships and top three national rankings in multiple events. Ms. Carder also served four years as President of the Old Towne Preservation Association, a non profit organization dedicated to preserving the historic and economic viability of California's largest national register district.

5030 Camino de la Siesta   304 , San Diego , California 92108

Practice Areas: Divorce,Domestic Partnership,Domestic Violence,Family ,Gay and Lesbian ,Military ,Paternity,Prenuptial Agreement,Spousal Support

Firm: BLAIR Family Law Group, APC

210 S. Juniper Street, Suite 200 , Escondido , California 92025

Practice Areas: Family

Michelle L. Blair was born and raised in Southern California. Ms. Blair graduated from the Menlo College, Atherton, California where she was a magna cum laude graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business. Ms. Blair then received her juris doctor degree from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California and was admitted to the California and federal bars in 2002.. Ms. Blair has extensive experience in all aspects of family law matters, including custody disputes, support and high net worth divorces. Ms. Blair has is also experienced in preparing premarital and post marital agreements.Ms. Blair has experience in trusts and estates. Ms. Blair is skillful in conducting all the phases of entity formations, including general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations.Ms. Blair has been a mediator since August 22, 2003 and completed hermediation skills training at San Diego Mediation Center.

Firm: Law Office of Michelle Becker

3579 E. Foothill Blvd., #636 , Pasadena , California 91107

Practice Areas: Education

My mission to serve and advocate for children began in 1996 when my husband and I adopted our twin girls from Romania.  I experienced great difficulty getting the girls the early intervention services they needed.  And, after successfully acquiring those services, we still faced the challenge of getting them the free and appropriate public education to which they were entitled.. I understand the challenges that children face in school and the challenges their parents face ensuring that their children receive the education they deserve.  The special education learning curve is steep and the time it takes to acquire the knowledge to advocate for them may mean days, weeks or months delay in getting a child the educational services they need.. Let me help you.  I know how.

Firm: Ford & Harrison LLP

350 S Grand Ave Ste 2300 , Los Angeles , California 90071

Practice Areas: General Practice, Employment & Labor

Firm: Michelina Perani

3030 Bridgeway , Sausalito , California 94965

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense

2520 Venture Oaks Way   390  95 , Sacramento , California 95833

Practice Areas: Labor

Firm: McCune Wright Arevalo, LLP

3281 E. Guasti Road , Ontario , California 91761

Practice Areas: Class Action

Ontario personal injury attorney Michele M. Vercoski is a partner of McCune Wright Arevalo, LLP. After joining the firm in 2007, she began focusing her practice on personal injury, class actions, and plaintiff’s litigation. She has successfully recovered numerous results for her clients that exceed $1 million, including a $1.7 million result in a medical malpractice case and a $1.2 million settlement fund in a class action case against SlimFast. At McCune Wright Arevalo, LLP, Attorney Vercoski is committed to providing her clients with personalized attention and aggressive representation from start to finish. Call the firm for a free consultation.

Firm: Lurie & Seltzer

12121 WILSHIRE BLVD. STE 300 , LOS ANGELES , California 90025

Practice Areas: Litigation

490 S California Ave Ste 210 , Palo Alto , California 94306

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: Flicker, Kerin, Kruger & Bissada LLP

545 Middlefield Road , Menlo Park , California 94025

Practice Areas: Family , Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation

I am  a Certified Family Law Specialist, a distinction assigned by the State Bar of California, and am a named partner of the firm Flicker, Kerin, Kruger & Bissada LLP.  My practice includes litigation of custody and complex financial matters.  My practice also includes mediation, both as a consulting attorney and as the mediator.  I am also trained in and practice collaborative law.. I am proud to announce that in October 2013, I became a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML).  I am also rated by Martindale-Hubbell with an AV Preeminent rating for my work on behalf of clients in the field of Family Law.. I regularly serve as a Judge Pro Tem for the Santa Clara County Superior Court and as an Arbitrator in fee disputes in San Mateo County.. I am a member of the State Bar of California and belong to the San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Palo Alto Bar Associations, and the American Bar Association.  I have served as President, Treasurer and Board Member of the San Mateo County Bar Association, a current Delegate since 2000 and past Chair of the Conference of Delegates representing San Mateo County, and a member of Collaborative Practice San Mateo County since 2001, where I also serve on their Membership Committee.  I also volunteed with the YMCA and served on the Board of Managers for the Peninsula Family YMCA from 1999 through 2007.  I was a member of the Chamber of Commerce Leadership Program – Class of 2002.. I am a graduate of University of California at Davis (B.A. Degrees in International Relations and in French, 1989); and have my Juris Doctorate degree from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, 1994. At California Western School of Law, I earned a highest possible score in Trial Advocacy.. My interests include spending time with my family, traveling, and international cultures.

Firm: Law Offices of Michele M. Poteracke

850 3rd Street , Santa Rosa , California 95404

Practice Areas: Family

Firm: Bergman Dacey Goldsmith

10880 Wilshire Boulevard , Los Angeles , California 90024

Practice Areas: Civil , Construction , Employment & Labor , Insurance , Employment & Labor

Firm: Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP

800 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 900 , Los Angeles , California 90017

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization , Immigration, Immigration

Michele Franchett is a partner at Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP.  She is admitted to the California Bar, and is a Certified Specialist in the practice of Immigration and Nationality Law.  She has over twenty years of experience in the field, and holdes the highest, preeminent "AV" rating from Martindale Hubbell.  Her current practice is focused on investor and entrepreneurial immigration, with particular emphasis on EB-5 capital group representation. She provides counsel to a number of regional centers seeking to obtain or amend regional center designations and exemplar petition approvals. Ms. Franchett serves on the EB-5 committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”), the Public Policy Committee of Invest In the USA (“IIUSA”),  and is a former chair of the AILA Southern California Chapter.  Having started working in the area of U.S. immigration in 1986, Ms. Franchett has since accumulated experience encompassing virtually every area of business-based immigration. She has represented multinational corporations, research hospitals, universities, investors, entrepreneurs, academicians, artists, and entrepreneurs from around the globe.  Ms. Franchett has also represented clients applying for visas at U.S. Consulates in Toronto, Halifax, and Ciudad Juarez, and at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. In more recent years she traveled to China to provide EB-5 training for licensed immigration consultants.

Firm: Michele T. Ferroni, Attorney at Law

301 East Colorado Boulevard, Suite 520 , Pasadena , California 91101

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense

I have exclusively practiced CRIMINAL DEFENSE for 33 years. I began my career as a Deputy Public Defender supervising a DUI court and working in the Major Crimes Unit. During the years that I worked as an Attorney for the County in the Sacramento and Los Angeles area, I represented adults and juveniles charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses such as theft, domestic violence, assault, drugs, DUI, vehicular manslaughter and hit and run cases. In 1997 I opened my own practice specializing in all matters of Criminal Defense. Over the years I also spent time contracting with firms working exclusively DUI's and related administrative proceedings. My practice continues to focus on those adults and juveniles charged with Criminal or DUI offenses in court and at the DMV. My clients are guaranteed that I will personally handle all aspects of their case and will always have easy access and constant communication with me.. Represent and personally handle the cases of those charged with Criminal and DUI offenses which includes misdemeanors, felonies and DMV proceedings.

Firm: Law Offices of Michele A. Dobson

Historic Belmont Heights , Long Beach , California 90814

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense

The Law Offices of Michele A. Dobson is a diverse, full service law office. We serve all of our clients needs handling Contract Litigation, Estate Planning, Elder Abuse, Family Law, Criminal Defense and Civil Litigation. Once we handle one case for a client, they return to us with all of their personal and professional legal needs.. The Practice provides Business Owners with Contract Interpretation Advice, Drafting Assistance and Contract Enforcement Litigation. We are experienced business litigators and trial attorneys aggressive in defending our client's business interest.  The Firm is also experienced in the creation of For Profit Organizations, Non-Profit Organizations and in Corporate Dissolutions.. We are advocates in the area of Elder and Senior Abuse serving Seniors and Dependent Adults that are medically neglected by their care providers or Senior Citizens and Dependent Adults who are taken advantage of financially by those closest to them.  The firm also continues to do Criminal Defense by Referral Only.  Ms. Dobson is an experienced trial attorney in both the Civil and Criminal arenas in her fourteenth year of practice.

Firm: Scott Cole & Associates

1970 Broadway, 9th Floor , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor

Ms. Desoer serves as an Associate Attorney withScott Cole & Associates, APC.  She received her undergraduatedegree in Business Administration from the University of California atBerkeley’s Haas School of Business in 1981 and graduated with honorsfrom the Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) in 1985.  While in lawschool, Ms. Desoer served on the editorial board of the InternationalTax and Business Lawyers journal.  Ms. Desoer is admitted to the NinthCircuit Court of Appeals, and the Northern, Central, Eastern andSouthern United States District Courts of California. In addition to expertise in the areas of employment law and classactions, Ms. Desoer has extensive experience in general andentertainment litigation.  She is a member of the California StateBar’s Litigation and Employment and Labor Law sections.

Firm: Brown & Charbonneau, LLP

420 Exchange Suite 270 , Irvine , California 92602

Practice Areas: Civil , Family , Divorce & Separation

Ms. Charbonneau is a highly regarded Orange County family law practitioner and was a founding partner in one of Orange County’s premier law firms. Ms. Charbonneau is well known for her uncanny ability to get to the heart of a case and get it resolved. While compassionate and understanding, she is tenacious in her resolve to get divorcing couples to focus on common ground to reach a fair and responsible resolution. She is very skilled in dealing with the range of emotions that go with a divorce and is able to relate to the parties like few others! Ms. Charbonneau has worked in Southern California for over 28 years and has handled countless family law matters. She has tried and settled various notable family law cases throughout her career, some of which have resulted in published law-making cases. Ms. Charbonneau has been involved in many highly contentious divorces, giving her a unique perspective into the problems, motivations and potential solutions in marital disputes. She has no problem thinking out of the box if that will get a case resolved. Ms. Charbonneau is experienced in all aspects of Family Law including: Divorce, Mediation, Child Custody & Custody Investigations, Child Support, Spousal Support Custody & Support Modifications, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Property Characterization Transmutations. Ms. Charbonneau has been an accomplished and award winning lawyer since her days in law school. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and Salutatorian of Western State University College of Law. She was selected to the prestigious Law Review, serving as the editor of law review for two terms. Ms. Charbonneau was also one of the very few individuals selected to work as a judicial extern for Justice Wallin at the Court of Appeal. Ms. Charbonneau was a law school adjunct professor at Western State University for several years.

Firm: Serbin & Carmeli, Attorneys at Law

7700 Irvine Center Drive , Irvine , California 92618

Practice Areas: Trusts

Michele Carmeli has been a practicing attorney in Orange County, California for the past 27 and has handled a wide variety of litigation matters. Most recently, she was lead trial counsel in an elder abuse action in which her client received a statement of decision with damages of approximately $3.8 million. For the past five years, Ms. Carmeli’s work has been in trust and estate litigation, where she has favorably tried and settled many trust and estate litigation matters. Previously, Michele did insurance defense litigation handling such matters as catastrophic injuries occurring at construction sites, general business disputes, homeowner association litigation, as well as employment, construction defect, sexual harassment, wrongful eviction, and real estate disputes. Michele also has an extensive background in the appellate field. Since 1986, she has filed approximately 100 civil writs and appellate briefs concerning all manner of civil disputes in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Between 1991 and 2000, she also drafted approximately 200 appellate briefs regarding Los Angeles County felony criminal matters, including murder and Three Strikes.

Firm: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

525 B Street , San Diego , California 92101

Practice Areas: Family Law, Litigation