California Civil Litigation Lawyers

Civil Litigation

333 E. Camino Real Street, Monrovia, CA 91016

Civil Litigation

4675 MacArthur Blvd suite 900, Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA

Sarah Kelly-Kilgore is the executive partner of Holland & Knight's Newport Beach office and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. Ms. Kilgore focuses her practice on high-stakes litigation matters and complex business disputes. Ms. Kilgore has experience litigating cases in a broad range of practice areas, including fraud, business torts, defamation, contracts, federal agency enforcement actions, unfair competition and corporate governance disputes. She has been lead counsel in a number of high-profile cases involving significant national and international public attention, including matters reported in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. In addition, Ms. Kilgore regularly advises business entities on compliance and regulatory matters and issues of employment law, including sexual harassment, discrimination and wrongful termination. Her clients include public companies, private businesses, executives and celebrities. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Kilgore was the managing partner for the Los Angeles office of an elite boutique trial law firm. While in law school, Ms. Kilgore was the editor-in-chief of the American Criminal Law Review and an associate editor of the Annual Survey of White Collar Crime. She was also a member of the Georgetown Moot Court Team.

Civil Litigation

700 Larkspur Landing Cir suite 199, Larkspur, CA 94939, USA

Scott A. Flaxman, a California licensed attorney, has assisted hundreds of small businesses and individuals with real estate purchase and sale agreements, leases, estate planning, civil litigation matters, and tax resolution issues. Mr. Flaxman's civil litigation experience encompasses land use (use permits, variances), disputes over commercial and residential leases, real estate brokerage, real estate purchase and sale, boundary and easements; general neighbor disagreements such as shared fences and tree roots; title and general liability insurance matters; construction disagreements; probate problems; homeowners association disputes and issues that have arisen in connection with the purchase and sale of consumer products. Mr. Flaxman graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California at Davis with a degree in Psychology and earned his law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

Civil Litigation

16236 San Dieguito Rd, Ste 2-10 #9318, San Diego, CA 92067

Mr. Ponist started his career as a Deputy District Attorney with the Marin County District Attorney?s Office, where he tried more than 25 misdemeanor and felony cases to verdict. Thereafter, he was the Associate General Counsel for Marcus & Millichap, one of the largest commercial real estate brokerage companies, where he handled a wide range of real estate matters. Mr. Ponist later was a Principal at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy where he handled complex, high stakes commercial litigation. Prior to founding The Ponist Law Group, P.C., Mr. Ponist was a Partner at Peterson, Martin & Reynolds where he focused on real estate, construction and business litigation matters. Mr. Ponist represents clients in arbitration and litigation in a broad range of real estate and business disputes, including disputes concerning real estate sales and ownership, real estate brokerage, real estate development, construction and construction defect, title and boundary issues, commercial unlawful detainer and landlord-tenant issues as well as business contract and partnership disputes. He combines cost effective strategies and proven experience to achieve favorable settlements and winning results at arbitration and trial.

Civil Litigation

346 Blackfield Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920

Shand Stephens has extensive experience handling and supervising complex litigation on a global scale. In private practice and as chief trial counsel for an NYSE-listed international financial services corporation, Shand has tried, arbitrated and mediated major cases across the United States and supervised the strategy and handling of significant cases around the world, including litigation and arbitrations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Bermuda, the Netherlands, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Zambia and Switzerland. He has tried, arbitrated, and mediated a broad spectrum of matters, including insurance, reinsurance, securities, unfair competition, employment, fraud, brokers' errors and omissions, lawyers' errors and omissions, bad faith, contracts and lender's liability. Shand has briefed and argued appeals before the Second, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, New York Appellate Courts, New Jersey Appellate Courts, several California courts of appeal and the California Supreme Court. In addition to his litigation practice, Shand has served as the outside general counsel to a large regional bank and to two charitable organizations. He has routinely participated in the review of regulatory filings, preparation of 10Qs and 10Ks and formulation of employment policies and internal audit investigations, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.