REAL ESTATE
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
- Successfully settled case regarding the termination of a real estate purchase contract after lender refused to agree to assign the loan to buyer and the subsequent sale of the property to a third party while still in contract to the erstwhile buyer/claimant.
- Successfully settled partition action of real property pursuant to a stipulation for sale of the property.
- Handled two coordinated real estate fraud cases in trial and arbitration with claims totaling $10 million.
- Entitled development of an award-winning new dormitory for a private college in Oakland.
- Entitled development of 25-story office building in downtown Oakland.
- Entitled development of 9-story office building in downtown Oakland and assisted in construction, tax, and exaction issues.
- Obtained $22,500,000 settlement for real estate dispute concerning an option to purchase land
- Secured a settlement in real estate fraud claim.
- Successfully settled a corporate and real estate dispute pursuant to a mediator’s compromise.
- Settled dispute between partner and former partner in real estate dispute.
- Successfully settled pre-litigation claim for return of liquidated damages after termination of real estate purchase contract.
- Successfully guided non-profit community health facility through complex real estate transaction involving cannabis dispensary.
- Conducted pre-litigation mediation of a real estate non-disclosure suit involving a boat dock resulting in no action being filed.
- Assisted parties regarding reports required under purchase contract and interpretation of the same.
- Settled neighbor dispute regarding encroaching conditions.
- Mediated pre-litigation claims of non-disclosure of defects and rodent activity.
- Conducted pre-litigation mediation of a real estate non-disclosure suit involving non-disclosure of dying trees resulting in no action being filed.
- Conducted pre-litigation mediation of a real estate non-disclosure suit involving non-disclosure of rotted deck.
- Mediated a pre-litigation rescission of purchase of real estate.
- Settled disputed claims regarding tree removal and view claims.
- Assisted parties in reaching an agreement for a pathway to resolve disclosure dispute through rescission of purchase contract pre-litigation.
- Mediated partial resolution of issues relating to non-disclosure of unpermitted construction pre-litigation.
- Resolved non-disclosure claim for home in Venice, California.
- Settled dispute regarding non-disclosure and construction defects in home that had been flipped by seller. Later retained as mediator by seller in dispute with contractor.
- Settled dispute regarding removal of jointly owned tree.
- Assisted parties in a dispute regarding custom construction of home for sale in Venice, California.
- Settled landlord-tenant dispute regarding lease conformance and obligation to pay rent during Covid-19 shutdown.
- Mediated disputes relating to whether a property had approved plans for the construction of a new residence.
- Mediated dispute over non-disclosure of foundation issues.
- Mediated numerous claims regarding real estate development.
- Mediated pre-litigation evaluation of claims relating to non-disclosure of existing defects in sale of home.
- Mediated pre-litigation evaluation of claims regarding non-disclosure and the addition of new parties.
- Mediated pre-litigation evaluation of claims to earnest money deposit following cancellation of real estate purchase contract.
- Settled through rescission of a real estate purchase for a development opportunity where sewer connection problem and cost were not disclosed.
