Survey of Significant 2024 Real Estate Cases

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Landlord Tenant, Real Estate

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This seminar will cover significant 2024 real estate cases affecting real property owners, buyers, sellers, agents, brokers, lenders, borrowers, consumers, developers, contractors and others.

About the Presenters

Sean Ponist, Esq.

Ponist Law Group

Practice Area: Trial (+ 4 other areas)

Recognized ExcellenceSean E. Ponist is a highly regarded trial attorney and the owner and founder of the Ponist Law Group, with offices in San Diego and San Francisco. As a skilled civil litigator and former prosecutor, Sean is a forceful courtroom advocate for his clients. Over his career spanning more than 25 years, he has tried over 35 cases to verdict and brings significant litigation and trial experience to his representation of clients.In acknowledgment of his accomplishments, Sean has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer,” a distinction awarded to less than 5% of attorneys, for more than ten years (2011- ...

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Johnny Yeh, Esq.

Emergent

Practice Area: Real Estate (+ 3 other areas)

Johnny regularly represents clients engaged in difficult and complicated real estate and business disputes, and his passion is working diligently and meticulously to ensure that his strategic approaches mesh with the goals of his clients.  Johnny works to see every angle in litigation so that advantages can be seized and disadvantages can be most effectively tempered.On the real estate side, he routinely advises and advocates for clients in matters pertaining to commercial landlord-tenant disputes, broken real estate transactions, non-disclosure cases involving the sale of real property, and failed business partnerships in real estate investment. He also frequently represents parties in ...

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Skye Langs, Esq.

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Practice Area: Litigation (+ 3 other areas)

Skye Langs’ practice focuses on complex civil litigation in state and federal court, with significant experience preventing and resolving disputes in real estate, land use, leasing, landlord-tenant, and CEQA matters. She has successfully defended the approvals for numerous projects, including major mixed-use developments and sports and entertainment venues, against challenges arising under the California Environmental Quality Act and other state and local land use laws. She also represents property owners, developers, and commercial tenants in disputes concerning lease terms, evictions, purchase and sale agreements, easements, partitions, property line disputes, and receiverships.In addition to her land use and real estate practice, ...

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Kelly Woodruff, Esq.

Complex Appellate Litigation Group

Practice Area: Trial (+ 6 other areas)

Kelly Woodruff has more than 30 years of experience handling significant appeals and writs in state and federal appellate courts.Her practice spans nearly all subject areas, including commercial disputes, intellectual property, real estate, antitrust, and trust and estate litigation, but she has developed a particular expertise in handling family law appeals and writs.Kelly is certified by the California State Bar as an appellate law specialist.In addition to appeals and writs, she is often retained to write amicus briefs to ensure her clients’ voices are heard in cases where they are not otherwise participating.She often works with trial counsel to prepare ...

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Robert Charles Ward, Esq.

Shartsis Friese

Practice Area: Litigation (+ 5 other areas)

Robert Ward is a litigation partner with substantial arbitration and trial experience who relies on that experience to deliver practical advice and cost-effective lawyering. His litigation practice is largely oriented toward the real estate and investment management industries. Mr. Ward’s real estate work includes landlord-tenant disputes, disputes over purchase and sale contracts, partnership dissolutions, broker disputes, construction disputes, secured transactions, and breach of fiduciary duty and corporate governance claims. In the investment management area, he handles partnership disputes, investor claims, employment claims, and other problems arising for investment management companies. Mr. Ward also handles several types of disputes faced by ...

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