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19 distinguished real estate law attorneys in California, each reviewed by the Lawyers of Distinction Selection Committee.
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Michael P. Mallery
MemberReal Estate Law
1077 N. Willow Ave., Ste. 105, #895, Clovis, CA 93611
Mr. Mallery was admitted to The State Bar of California in 1984. Over the past seven years, Mr. Mallery has been the Lead Counsel for Gerawan Farming Inc., a family-owned business which is the largest grower of peaches, plums and nectarines in the United States. Mallery’s areas of practices include business labor and employment law. For more than 15 years, Mallery has served as Judge Pro-Tem for the Fresno County Superior Court, Juvenile Court. In addition to being recognized for excellence in the practice of law by Lawyers of Distinction, Mr. Mallery has also earned any honors, awards and accolades including being selected to be a member of the Nation’s Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. He was also nominated to become a Best Attorneys of America Lifetime Charter Member.
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MemberReal Estate Law
765 Mesa View Drive., Suite #298, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
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Rick Bruzzone
MemberReal Estate Law
1660 Olympic Blvd., Suite 210, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Rick is a senior level attorney with substantial experience in all aspects of commercial real estate, including development, financing, sales, acquisitions and exchanges, dispositions, leasing, and property management. His practice emphasizes commercial leasing and property acquisition and disposition, and extends to all phases of office, retail, commercial, and industrial lease transactions, including originations, leasehold financings, transfers and subleases, renegotiations, "workouts" and enforcement actions. Rick has significant experience developing lease documentation for numerous office buildings and shopping centers; handling complex lease negotiations for landlords and tenants in a vast array of settings, including build-to-suits, sale-leasebacks, lease-equity and lease-purchase arrangements, and hotel, office and retail ground leases; renegotiating and restructuring anchor tenant leases in the context of expansion, renovation and redevelopment of projects; and analyzing and enforcing rights and obligations under existing leases. Rick also has over 30 years of land use and development experience, both as a lawyer and as a principal. His expertise includes land use entitlement; subdivision improvement agreements; reciprocal easement agreements and owners’ association documents; option agreements for acquisition and assembly of land; architectural, engineering, construction and other service agreements relating to land development; acquisition, due diligence and hazardous waste assessment issues. Rick also serves as outside general counsel to a number of companies with significant real estate portfolios, including his own, family-owned company. Rick has been a program lecturer for the International Council of Shopping Centers and a number of different industry associations. Rick was named as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2005 through 2014. A graduate of Stanford University, Rick was awarded an MBA and a law degree from the University of Santa Clara.
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