Top Banking Lawyers in Walnut Creek | 2 available

Firm: Strata Legal

2950 Buskirk Ave. Ste. 300 , Walnut Creek , California 94597

Practice Areas: Banking

Ms. Simon represents clients with their commercial real estate purchases, sales, leases, financing, and HOA and neighbor disputes.. For nearly a decade, Ms. Simon has been specializing in commercial real estate transactions and litigation, title issues, foreclosure, bankruptcy proceedings, common interest development (HOAs), acquisition/disposition, and leasing. She also has trial experience and has litigated enforcement of contract, receivership, and bankruptcy adversary proceedings.. Drawing upon her real estate litigation background, Ms. Simon is well-versed at pinpointing and mitigating potential risks in contracts, and setting a strategy for resolving conflicts that best matches with the client’s tolerance for risk.. Prior to founding Strata Legal, she represented major financial institutions and mid-sized regional banks at a boutique law firm.. Ms. Simon earned her Juris Doctorate degree with a Business Law Certification from the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and was admitted to the California State Bar in 2009.  She graduated from Scripps College with honors in Politics and International Relations with a minor in Chinese, and studied Chinese at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.  She began her legal advocacy work in the area of racial profiling and religious protections at the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus.. Originally from Hong Kong, Ms. Simon is fluent in Cantonese, and conversant in Mandarin.. Ms. Simon is the past President of the Asian Business League of San Francisco.  She is currently a member of the Contra Costa County Bar Association and belongs to its Solo Practice and Small Firm, Women, and Real Estate sections.

Firm: Dawe & Christopherson LLP

1350 Treat Boulevard , Walnut Creek , California 94597

Practice Areas: General Practice, Banking

Mr. Christopherson brings exceptional insight and depth of understanding to his mediation and litigation practice, drawing on more than 30 years of experience in commercial and banking litigation. In September 2016, Mr. Christopherson tried an action in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, achieving a $3 million judgment in favor of his client, a well known international heavy equipment manufacturer, and against his NYSE traded opponent.Coming from an early background as an in-house counsel for Wells Fargo Bank, Mr. Christopherson has developed a successful litigation practice focusing on defense claims relaring to real estate secured lending (wrongful foreclosure, equitable subordination, partition, eminent domain, and mechanic’s liens) and personal property loans and leases (“Lemon Law”, the California Automobile Sales Finance and Vehicle Leasing Acts, and dealer fraud). Cases arising in retail banking, including claims for improper payment of forged checks at the hands of an embezzling bookkeeper and losses from safe deposit boxes are also in Mr. Christopherson’s area of expertise. Mr. Christopherson is skilled both at recovering collateral and collecting money from commercial and consumer debtors. His expertise extends to prejudgment writs of possession (i.e., replevin) and attachment (i.e., imposing a prejudgment lien to secure previously unsecured obligations). Furthermore, contempt proceedings are sometimes filed against judgment debtors who ignore, at their peril, a judgment requiring that they redeliver collateral.He has also, on occasion, represented debtors in defense of collection actions, asserting FDCPA claims when appropriate, and with good results.In the mediation realm, Mr. Christopherson focuses on maintaining a civil and cordial process, requiring the parties to try to look at the dispute through fresh eyes and find collaborative solutions when possible.