Legal Cases

  1. Client was a plaintiff claiming that the land development upstream of his house had caused higher flood stages during the storm, increasing his damages from the flood.
  2. Plaintiff’s wife drowned during the storm due to an undersized sump pump and an unprotected underpass.
  3. Arbitrated various disputes between homeowners and contractors. (Construction defects).
  4. Arbitrated dispute between an architect and a hotel builder. The roof of the hotel was destroyed during the hurricane. The architect was claiming that the contractor constructed a roof that deviated from specifications
  5. Plaintiff had an ingress and egress easement, and he was not permitted by the neighbor to improve it. He also had a private road which was not properly recorded.
  6. Defendant constructed a block wall encroaching into a neighbor’s view easement.
  7. Defendant was a contractor who was sued by a family of a braindamaged child, who gained access into a drainage outlet.
  8. Plaintiff constructed a wine cellar in the basement of his house. Due to faulty construction, there was seepage of groundwater through the cellar walls.
  9. Plaintiff sold a portion of his lot and did not reserve Ingress and egress easement.
  10. Plaintiff slipped and fell due to faulty drainage design of an apartment building.
  11. Defendant sold the property with documents showing a proposed access driveway. Plaintiff claimed that the construction of the driveway was too expensive and the sale should be rescinded.
  12. Plaintiff’s house sustained damage due to the failure of an adjacent slope. The failure was triggered by a faulty drainage system within the neighbor’s property.
  13. Plaintiff requested the neighbor to remove the encroaching portion of the block wall that obstructed his driveway.
  14. Defendant claimed that the adjacent proposed land development will overburden existing ingress and egress easement and reduce value of the defendant’s land.
  15. Hired by both parties to render a decision about the location of a lot line and the validity of adverse possession.
  16. Defendant (a church) was accused of redirecting runoff and causing flooding of the adjacent condominium.
  17. Plaintiff slipped and fell due to faulty parking construction.
  18. Plaintiff slipped and fell due to the faulty design of the building entrance.
  19. Defendant was using the ingress and egress easement for other purposes.
  20. Plaintiff reserved certain rights during the purchase of the property.
  21. Plaintiff made improvements (grading, wall) within the ingress and egress easement.
  22. Plaintiff claimed that his fixed boundary was established by acquiescence, while the defendant claimed riparian rights.
  23. Slipped and fell case. Determine the ownership of the area where the accident occurred.
  24. Defendant constructed private utilities within the ingress and egress easement.
  25. Defendant proposed to construct an access driveway that would require removal of an old encroachment.
  26. Defendant was practicing civil engineering without a license.
  27. Defendant prevented a neighbor from trespassing defendant’s land.
  28. Plaintiff constructed a swimming pool, which began tilting eight years after construction.
  29. Plaintiff is a store owner who sustained significant inventory loss during a flood event.
  30. Restaurant Owner claimed that some restaurants of the same franchise are located less than 5 miles from his restaurant.
  31. Mobile park homeowners sued an insurance company for construction defects
  32. A neighbor blocked the ocean view of his neighbor (Pacific Palisades).
  33. A neighbor blocked the ocean view of his neighbor (Malibu).
  34. A surveyor recorded R of S, which showed boundary encroachment.
  35. Final Tract map was very close to expiration. It had numerous plan check comments and unsatisfied conditions of approval.
  36. A house was flooded during a storm event due to a neighbor’s negligence.
  37. One of the two neighbors decided to use their shared driveway to park his truck.
  38. A pedestrian sustained injury due to alleged negligence of a city.
  39. A shopping center was flooded during the storm event due to the alleged negligence of the landlord.
  40. Grading of a parcel of land was performed without Grading Permit. Grading violations were recorded by the county against the property. Neighbors initiated legal actions.
  41. The neighbor backfilled a retaining wall. The wall became unstable.
  42. A new commercial building encroached over the property line of a residential lot.
  43. A parcel of land had only a 5-ft wide access easement.
  44. The plaintiff claimed that the construction of a condominium complex within the adjacent lot caused structural damages to the plaintiff’s property.
  45. Defendant was obstructed from using the implied ingress and egress easement and prescriptive parking easement.