Top Real Estate Lawyers in Costa Mesa | 73 available

695 Town Center Drive , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Construction ,Land Use & Zoning,Leases and Leasing,Real Estate

Firm: Murphy & Evertz LLP

650 Town Center Drive, Ste. 550 , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate

John Murphy focuses his practice on eminent domain, inverse condemnation and other complex real estate trials. He represents a wide variety of public agencies, corporations, and landowners.. Mr. Murphy and his firm have earned its clients over $275 Million in eminent domain awards over the past six years. His firm has won arguably the highest condemnation awards in the State in each of the past four years. Its 2017 judgment against the County of San Bernardino totals $48 Million.. He has been chosen repeatedly for inclusion in the definitive legal directory, Best Lawyers in America - - most recently for 2017 - - in two practice areas: eminent domain law and real estate law.  From 2006 – 2017, the Los Angeles Times has featured Mr. Murphy in its articles, “Southern California’s Best Lawyers.”  Los Angeles magazine has listed him repeatedly in Southern California Super Lawyers. Orange Coast magazine named him in its September, 2007 – 2015 features, “Top Attorneys in Orange County.”. Best Lawyers in America, the nation’s oldest and most respected legal peer-review publication, honored Mr. Murphy in 2012 as its “Orange County Litigation – Real Estate Lawyer of The Year.”  Mr. Murphy was also named one of the “Top 50 in Orange County” lawyers for 2012 by Southern California’s Super Lawyers magazine.. Mr. Murphy has served as lead trial counsel in numerous significant, successful jury trials. He speaks regularly on eminent domain issues and his cases have garnered significant press coverage. He has been the subject of three Los Angeles Daily Journal profiles and has been featured on the cover of both Verdicts and Settlements and the Daily Journal. John also won one of the largest jury verdicts ($14.6 million) ever obtained in Marin County Superior Court.. In 2006, Mr. Murphy was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Association.  He has been consistently accorded an “AV-Preeminent” rating by Martindale Hubbell.. In 2017, the State Bar of California’s Real Property Section awarded Mr. Murphy a seat on its executive committee.. Mr. Murphy has managed, or played a lead role in, several major public agency acquisition projects. These agencies include:. Mr. Murphy spoke on trial tactics in eminent domain at the American Law Institute – Continuing Legal Education (ALI-CLE) 34th Annual Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in San Diego in 2017.  He has also spoken at the January, 2006 23rd Annual ALI-ABA National Eminent Domain Conference in San Diego; the 2009, 26th ALI-ABA National Eminent Domain Conference in Miami, Florida; the 2012, 29th ALI-ABA Eminent Domain Conference in San Diego; and the 2015, 32nd Annual National Eminent Domain Conference in San Francisco.. He serves as Co-Chairman of the annual CLE International Southern California seminar on eminent domain. He has spoken frequently at Appraisal Institute seminars, and authored an article for the Appraisal Journal.. Over the past ten years, Mr. Murphy has spoken at over 15 International Right of Way Association seminars and programs. Most recently, he spoke at the IRWA’s 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Annual International Education Conferences in Indianapolis, Calgary, Atlanta, Seattle, West Virginia, and Hartford, Connecticut.. Mr. Murphy has authored a chapter on condemnation for the California Continuing Education of the Bar; treatise, “Ground Lease Practice,” and he also authored a chapter of the American Bar Association text book on expert witnesses, “Litigators on Experts.”. Mr. Murphy is the former president of Chapter 67 of the International Right of Way Association (2000) and former member of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Bar Foundation. He is a past President of the Warren J. Ferguson Chapter of the American Inns of Court and has served on the Board of Visitors of the Chapman University Law School. He is also a member of Lambda Alpha, and an affiliate member of the Appraisal Institute.. Mr. Murphy received his J.D. from the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law in 1980; and his B.A., with honors, from the University of California, Riverside in 1976.

611 Anton Boulevard   Fourteenth Floor Californi , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Firm: Rutan and Tucker, LLP

611 Anton Boulevard   Fourteenth Floor Californi , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Civil ,Condemnation & Eminent Domain,Environmental ,Land Use & Zoning,Municipal ,Real Estate

Firm: Haynes Boone

600 Anton Blvd Ste 700 , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Firm: Rutan and Tucker, LLP

611 Anton Boulevard   Fourteenth Floor Californi , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Banking & Finance,Bankruptcy,Real Estate

Firm: DeFrenza Lee LLP

3200 Park Center Drive , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate , Real Estate, Real Estate

Mr. De Frenza specializes in real property law with an emphasis on commercial leasing, purchase and sale transactions, construction law, and financing. Mr. De Frenza’s experience includes drafting and negotiating ground leases and leases for office, retail, restaurant, medical use and industrial space. He handles purchase and sale agreements for unimproved land and for office, research and development, retail, apartment, industrial, restaurant and hotel properties. Mr. De Frenza also prepares reciprocal easement agreements, property management agreements, covenants, conditions and restrictions, and various development-related agreements with public entities and between landowners. Mr. De Frenza’s representation includes major insurance companies, real estate investment companies, real estate development companies, national and regional quick service and casual dining restaurant chains, national tenant representation of a real estate financial services firm, a wireless telecommunications company, property management companies and individuals. Mr. De Frenza has provided real estate expertise in complex litigation matters involving real property. Prior to co-founding DeFrenza Lee LLP, Mr. De Frenza was a founding partner of Garrett DeFrenza Stiepel Ryder LLP and was previously the supervising partner of the Business Group of the Orange County office of Pillsbury Winthrop LLP. Mr. De Frenza has been a speaker on due diligence in real estate transactions, premises liability issues, wireless communication site leases and recent developments in real property law.

Firm: DeFrenza Lee LLP

3200 Park Center Drive , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Ms. Lee is a co-founding partner of DeFrenza Lee LLP. Her practice includes all aspects of real estate transactions, with an emphasis on acquisitions, dispositions, development, construction, financing and leasing. Ms. Lee has experience representing property owners, developers, and investors in purchase and sale transactions involving commercial, industrial, and retail buildings and multi-family residential projects. Ms. Lee has also represented institutional lenders, second lien lenders and borrowers in a broad range of finance transactions including real estate secured loans (construction, permanent and mezzanine loans).

Firm: SMILEY WANG-EKVALL,LLP

3200 Park Center Drive, Suite 250 , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Real Estate , Real Estate, Real Estate

Firm: Sheppard Mullin Et Al LLP

650 Town Center Dr Fl 10 , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Firm: Murphy & Evertz, LLP

650 Town Center Dr Ste 550 , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Katherine Meleski is a senior associate at Murphy & Evertz.  Her practice focuses on eminent domain and other real property litigation. Ms. Meleski represents private landowners, business owners, commercial landlords, tenants and public agencies in various phases of eminent domain litigation, including real property appraisal and valuation issues, inverse condemnation, pre-condemnation delay and loss of business goodwill.

Firm: Chiang, Nassiri & Hirota LLP

600 Anton Blvd., 11th Floor , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Business , Civil , Personal Injury, Real Estate , Business, Business, Business

Judy Y. Chiang obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She majored in Economics and minored in Music. Ms. Chiang obtained her law degree from Whittier Law School. Prior to being admitted to practice law in California in the year 2000, she clerked for the Honorable James Barr of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Central District, worked for the State Bar of California, and worked for firms that specialized in civil litigation.Ms. Chiang is admitted to practice in California State Courts as well as the following Federal Courts: U.S. District Court (Central, Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of California) and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.Prior to establishing the Law Office of Judy Y. Chiang, Ms. Chiang practiced at Berger Kahn, ALC and Musick, Peeler & Garrett, LLP. Ms. Chiang has over 12 years of civil litigation experience in areas of law, including, but not limited to, business, real estate, collection, bankruptcy/creditors' rights, tenant/landlord disputes, employment law, trademark law, personal injury, insurance coverage, toxic mold litigation, construction defect, eminent domain, and lemon law. Because of her diverse background in civil litigation, in 2006, Ms. Chiang taught a C.E.B. class on the topic “Civil Litigation Before Trial” at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Irvine, California.Ms. Chiang is also a licensed real estate broker. Her familiarity of real estate documents and transactions compliments her business and real estate litigation practice.Ms. Chiang speaks four languages, which include: English, Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Hakkanese. Her multilingual skills have proven to be very useful in our current expanding global web.

Firm: Ursic Law

1835 Newport Blvd. , Costa Mesa , California 92627

Practice Areas: Business, Real Estate

Joseph Ursic was born and raised in Southern California. Joseph completed his undergraduate degree at the University of San Francisco. During law school, Joseph was a competing member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution team, a Judicial Law Clerk for the Long Beach Superior Court, and completed a two-year externship with a national complex litigation firm. Joseph graduated from Whittier Law with a concentration in Intellectual Property and was admitted to the California Bar in 2014. He represents clients in all aspects of Business Law and Real Estate.. Joseph enjoys traveling, cars, and live music. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Whittier Law School Alumni Association and serves on several committees for the Orange County Bar Association.

Firm: Baker Hostetler

600 Anton Blvd , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Corporate , Insurance , Real Estate , Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Reed Smith

650 Town Center Dr Ste 1600 , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Firm: Assayag Mauss, LLP

2915 Red Hill Ave Ste A200 , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Corporate , Debtor/Creditor Rights, Real Estate , Banking, Banking

3200 Bristol St Ste 690 , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Firm: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

650 Town Center Drive , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental

Firm: Rutan and Trucker

611 Anton Blvd Fl 14 , Costa Mesa , California 92626

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Firm: Ammirato Legal

170 E 17th St Ste 110 , Costa Mesa , California 92627

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Real Estate, Business, Family, Appeals