The Firm’s Litigation Practice Group represents its clients in prosecuting, defending, mediating, and arbitrating lawsuits, petitions, and claims. The Litigation Practice Group specializes in the following areas of law:
- Business tort liability (compliance with Business and Professions Code, breach of contract claims and commercial disputes)
- Civil rights and appeals (including injunctions and temporary restraining orders, petitions for writ of mandamus and administrative mandamus, appeals of administrative hearings)
- Competitive bidding and bid protest disputes
- Construction law (including construction defect litigation, construction delay claims, stop notice litigation, contract management, contractor licensing and oversight, subcontractor listing law, and insurance-related litigation)
- Environmental and Land Use litigation (including zoning challenges, entitlement review/revocation, Subdivision Map Act litigation, and challenges under CEQA)
- False Claims Act litigation
- First amendment law (including litigation concerning prior restraints, regulation of adult businesses, and restrictions on “commercial speech”)
- General liability and tort matters
- Labor and Employment litigation, including ADA litigation, wrongful termination, discrimination, and “hostile work environment,” wage and hour claims, labor compliance
- Personal injury law (negligence, premises liability, product liability)
- Product liability law (including toxic torts, asbestos litigation, aviation and complex design and manufacturing claims)
- Professional liability (legal malpractice, medical malpractice and defense of design professionals)
- Public works litigation (including condemnation/ eminent domain, Public Contract Code litigation, construction defect, and regulatory compliance)
- Real estate disputes/real property litigation (including breach of sale agreements, interference with use or possession, purchase-sale disputes, title disputes, real estate financing litigation, premises liability, trespass, and nuisance litigation)
- Redevelopment litigation (including defense of redevelopment projects, brownfield development, and eminent domain
- Toxic site remediation (hazardous materials remediation, public nuisance litigation, enforcement and defense of environmental compliance orders, and litigation under CERCLA, RCRA, Polanco Act, Prop. 65, and environmental statutes)
