Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Formed in July 2000, Ogden & Fricks LLP is a business law firm whose lawyers have a wide range of transactional and litigation experience, with particular emphasis on real estate, construction, land use and planning, business formations, dissolutions and sales, contracts, business disputes, probate and trust disputes, and other related matters.
• Business Transactions
• Limited Liability Companies
  Our firm’s business practice focuses on planning, structuring and forming entities, including general and limited partnerships, corporations, limited liability partnerships and limited liability companies. This practice also includes drafting, negotiating and reviewing contracts of every nature.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Our real estate litigation practice involves all forms of litigation relating to land transfers, title issues, boundaries, easements, water rights, neighboring land owners, development, leasing, condemnation and real estate brokerages.
• Construction Litigation
  Our firm’s construction practice provides a broad range of services on behalf of owners, contractors, architects, engineers and surveyors in connection with all phases of private and public projects. The firm counsels clients on the preparation, negotiation and drafting of construction-related agreements and represents clients in all types of construction-related litigation and AAA arbitration.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Our firm handles real estate transactions ranging from advising banks, brokers, buyers and sellers in transactions involving a wide range of properties from single-family residences to the largest commercial property sales in the San Luis Obispo area. This practice area includes all forms of real estate agreements, including, sales and acquisitions, finance, leases, easements, and licenses.
• Eminent Domain
  Our firm’s land use practice focuses primarily on development, permitting, planning, zoning, condemnation, eminent domain and environmental matters. The firm regularly appears before state and local agencies, including Boards of Supervisors, City Councils, Planning Commissions and LAFCOs.
• Easement

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
• Wills
  Our firm’s estate and trust litigation practice covers a wide variety of complex estate issues such as will and trust contests, the validity of wills and trusts (fraud, duress, undue influence, coercion, lack of capacity), breach of trustee or executor fiduciary duty, trust misappropriation and mismanagement and contested conservatorships.
• Trusts