San Diego, CA Lawyers

Workers Compensation Law

444 West C St suite 310, San Diego, CA 92101, USA

Mr. Overholt is the owner of the Law Office of Eric M. Overholt and represents injured workers and people who have suffered a personal injury whether it be a work injury or an injury while not on the job. Mr. Overholt represents individuals who have Workers’ Compensation injuries to their backs, neck, spine and brain. He has also taken cases to represent those who were injured on the job and have needed extensive surgical repair of their shoulders, as well as people who have been so badly injured that they have needed complete knee replacement on one or more knees. He has handled numerous catastrophic injury cases to obtain benefits for paraplegics, hemiplegics, quadriplegics, and those with severe brain injuries. Mr. Overholt has represented hundreds of people with a work related injury up to and through trial and he has won several Petitions for Reconsideration to obtain benefits for his clients.

Real Estate Law

750 B St #2900, San Diego, CA 92101, USA

Grant Puleo focuses his practice on a wide variety of real estate, finance and business transactions, and leads the firm’s Multifamily and Student Housing group. He has extensive experience in a broad array of commercial, multi-family and educational facility (student housing) real estate transactions, including acquisitions, development, construction, affordable housing, P3, syndication, dispositions and specialized leasing and financing of all product types throughout California and the United States. Mr. Puleo's finance experience includes both borrower and lender representation in the origination and workout of complicated debt and equity transactions, such as acquisition and construction financing, mezzanine financing and synthetic leasing transactions. He also represents clients in business matters involving the transfer of business assets and property and the formation and restructuring of joint ventures, private placements, opportunity funds and other business entities. Mr. Puleo is also a seasoned trial attorney, having tried over a dozen jury trials and several dozen binding arbitrations and mediations involving real estate, finance and business disputes, lis pendens, quiet title and partition actions, as well as risk management and litigation avoidance counseling. Mr. Puleo has also testified as an expert witness in trial, binding arbitration and in deposition. Mr. Puleo is an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law, where he lectures on commercial real estate transactions. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Endeavor Bank and serves as pro bono legal counsel for various non-profit clients. Mr. Puleo was recently honored as a Top 100 Leader in Law by The San Diego Business Journal.

Criminal Defense Law

105 West F St, Suite 306, San Diego, CA 92101

Gretchen von Helms is a Harvard educated lawyer who has practiced law for approximately 20 years. Since opening The Law Offices of Gretchen von Helms in 1996, she has handled numerous serious criminal cases, defending the accused. She is an experienced state and federal trial lawyer. The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization has certified Gretchen von Helms as a specialist in criminal law. Gretchen von Helms is a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review AV Rated Attorney*, the highest peer recognition rating possible for an attorney. In 1998, she was selected as one of the top 20 lawyers under the age of 40 in California. She has authored many articles and is a lecturer on criminal defense issues. She has served as an instructor at San Diego State University and is Of Counsel for Silva, Chavez, Sepulveda & Castenada, a law firm located in Tijuana, Mexico and speaks Spanish. She is a legal analyst for local television shows and Court T.V., where she provides commentary on high profile criminal cases. In March 2009, she was featured in the San Diego County Bar Association Bar Report as a lawyer giving back to the community. Ms. von Helms is a highly respected litigator within the criminal justice community and has represented clients in federal cases in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Immigration Law

4203 Genesee Ave #198, San Diego, CA 92117, USA

Igor Harris is from Yekaterinburg, Russia. Igor received a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, an MA in international relations from the University of San Diego, and a law degree from California Western School of Law. Throughout his career, Igor worked as a line cook, videographer, process server, international program coordinator, and independent counsel for a quickly expanding southern California restaurant group. He continues to work with and represent a variety of businesses and artists from Southern California and beyond. Upon the conflict between Russian and Ukraine, Igor felt compelled to shift his focus to helping people from the post Soviet era to leave a precarious situation and find a new home here in the U.S. As an immigrant himself, Igor understands firsthand the importance of adequate legal representation in the complex and often times uncertain immigration process. On his time off, Igor can most likely be found surfing, recording music, or shredding the snowy slopes of a nearby mountain. Fluent in English and Russian.

Personal Injury Law

402 W. Broadway, Suite 860, San Diego, CA 92101

Throughout his years as a California personal injury lawyer, James P. Frantz has received numerous landmark verdicts, including the second largest in San Diego County’s history. He fights for the rights for clients who have been seriously harmed in accidents or due to another’s negligence. He has handed almost every type of injury claim and has experience as a skilled litigator as well as from being an arbitrator for the past three decades. Attorney Frantz has been listed in Super Lawyers® for eight consecutive years, and is one of the Best Lawyers in America® for six years. He is skilled at handling cases ranging from personal injury and negligence and major mass torts and class action lawsuits. Call the Frantz Law Group today for a free consultation with Mr. Frantz.