Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  Land use and municipal/zoning law, real property law, inverse condemnation, landslide litigation, environmental law, insurance and bad faith litigation, art law, personal injury, employment law, construction law, personal injury and wrongful death.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  When business disputes occur between a business and an individual or between two business entities, consultation with an experienced business litigation attorney can be invaluable in protecting your rights and your company’s business interests.

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination
  Brekhus Law Partners often acts as “in-house counsel” to small businesses, and can assist you with understanding all phases of the employment process including the hiring process, wage and benefit laws, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, Family and Medical Leave Act, workplace privacy and safety and Whistleblower claims. We also represent employers in workplace violations, and are view from both sides of these claims gives us a tactical advantage.
• Sexual Harassment

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Real estate law generally involves anything dealing with real property (land) and address such issues as who owns land and the buildings on it, who has a right to possess and use land or buildings, obligations and rights during the sale and purchase of real property, the development of real property, and compliance with local, state, or national regulations affecting the use of real property.
• Construction Litigation
  For example, case law interpreting Evidence Code §813, which allows an owner of real property to testify as to the value of the property owned, prohibits such testimony in construction defects cases or real estate sales cases involving nondisclosure.
• Real Estate Transactions
• Eminent Domain
  Representative matters include failure to disclose cases, landslide and subsidence litigation, easement, encroachment and adjoining neighbor disputes, tree-view disputes, quiet title actions, inverse condemnation and eminent domain actions, litigation with cities, counties and special districts, writ proceedings, zoning matters and municipal law hearings including representation at planning commission and council meetings.
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
• Property Damage
  If a neighbor’s actions continuously interfere with your enjoyment of your property, we are versed in dealing with these disputes, including view ordinance offenses, tree height restrictions, easements, trespass, nuisance, property damage and deliberate actions.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Personal injury law refers to the legal remedies and defenses involved in civil lawsuits brought as a result of wrongful conduct. Most personal injury cases are based on the doctrine of negligence. In essence, negligence requires every member of society to act responsibly and avoid putting others at risk. That is not to say that negligence will result each time someone gets hurt. The law recognizes that some accidents are unavoidable. To establish liability, the plaintiff must show that a reasonably prudent person in the defendant’s position would have acted differently under the circumstances.
• Dog Bites
  Brekhus Law Partners have represented many clients injured through negligence or intentional misconduct of another person, including vehicular related accidents, medical complications resulting from a physician’s carelessness, dog bites that occur when vicious animals are permitted to roam free and injuries caused on someone else’s property, referred to as premise liability. We have expertise in complex matters such as brain injury and wrongful death.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  My client acquired his property from Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank acquired title by foreclosing on a loan to the previous owner, we will call him “Original Owner.” A little research revealed that the adjoining property had also been owned by Original Owner, and that the current owner, Bank of America, had also acquired title to that adjoining property by foreclosure. In fact, the two properties had, historically, always been owned by the same owner, until Original Owner went out and burdened each property with loans from different banks.