Palo Alto, California Business Lawyers

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Karl J. F. Runft
(650) 328-7300
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney
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Christian P. Binder
(408) 295-1700
Santa Clara, CA Business Law Lawyer
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Wendy Watrous Smith
(408) 295-1700
Santa Clara, CA Business Law Attorney
29 years experience
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Michael W. Stebbins
(408) 573-5700
San Jose, CA Business Law Lawyer
29 years experience
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Isaac Hal Winer
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 25 years experience
(650) 330-0110 2225 E. Bayshore Rd., Ste. 200
 Palo Alto, CA 94303
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UCLA School of Law
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Isaac H. Winer is an experienced business lawyer and civil litigator who has practiced law throughout California since 1992. Mr. Winer’s practice encompasses a broad array of substantive areas, including business formations, funding and governance, commercial contracts, leases and other agreements, technology licensing, civil litigation and ADR across diverse subject matters. Mr. Winer’s clients have included public and private companies in a variety of fields including software, hardware, life science, internet, telecom and health care. He has also represented start-up ventures, entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, investors and other individuals. All of Mr. Winer’s clients share a common thread – they...
Jeffrey Charles Miller
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 38 years experience
(650) 321-0410 2501 Park Blvd
2nd Floor
 Palo Alto, CA 94306
Business, Arbitration & Mediation and Employment
Cornell Univ
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For over thirty years, I have practiced business law and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Palo Alto, California. I assist businesses with formation and planning; purchases and sales of existing businesses; termination of business entities; commercial leasing matters; and employment matters. My other focus is on mediation and arbitration, where I help clients settle disputes outside of the courtroom. What I enjoy most about being a business law attorney is helping people transform their hobbies and passions into successful businesses. Whether I’m helping someone start a restaurant or a software company, I’m always mindful of the...
Raymund Robles
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer. 23 years experience
(800) 998-6988 228 Hamilton Ave., 3rd Floor
 Palo Alto, CA 94301
Business, Criminal, Domestic Violence and Juvenile
UC Hastings COL
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Alan Scott Nopar
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 38 years experience
(650) 328-7300 2479 E Bayshore Rd
#703
 Palo Alto, CA 94303
Business and Real Estate
Stanford Law School
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Aria Vatankhah
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 7 years experience
(650) 391-9630 260 Sheridan Avenue
Suite 200
 Palo Alto, CA 94306
Business, Immigration and Real Estate
University of California - Hastings College of the Law, LSE and University of Westminster
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Peter Nixon Brewer
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer. 38 years experience
(650) 327-2900 2501 Park Blvd., 2nd Flr.
 Palo Alto, CA 94306
Business, Construction, Personal Injury and Real Estate
University of Santa Clara, School of Law
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Karl J. F. Runft
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney.
(650) 328-7300 2479 E Bayshore Rd
#703
 Palo Alto, CA 94303
Business and Real Estate
University of Wisconsin Law School
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Jonathan Alan Blau
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 36 years experience
(650) 328-7300 2479 E Bayshore Rd
#703
 Palo Alto, CA 94303
Business and IP
Stanford Law School
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Francoise Gilbert
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer. 34 years experience
(650) 804-1235 555 Bryant St
 Palo Alto, CA 94301
Business
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Ms. Ashitha Bhagwan
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer.
(650) 813-9700 1717 Embarcadero Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94303
Business
University Law College, Bangalore, India, National Law School of India University Bangalore, India and University Law College, Bangalore, India
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Ashitha Bhagwan’s practice focuses on entrepreneurs and their corporate and legal needs. Ms. Bhagwan has worked on the formation, development and financing of emerging growth and early stage companies located in the US and foreign jurisdictions. She regularly counsels on a wide range of corporate issues such as formation, equity structure, employment, general corporate governance, intellectual property protection and commercial transactions. As part of her cross-border practice, Ms. Bhagwan helps foreign companies enter the US market by advising on optimal structures for US presence, resolving cross-border issues, and advising on intellectual property strategy and foreign direct investment reporting requirements in the...
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Julie Hope Rome-Banks
(408) 295-1700
Santa Clara, CA Business Law Attorney
28 years experience
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William L. Bretschneider
(408) 573-5732
San Jose, CA Business Law Lawyer
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Marina C. Tsatalis
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer. 11 years experience
(650) 493-9300 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business and Employment
 Harvard Law School
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Boris Feldman
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 30 years experience
(650) 858-4444 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business and Securities
 Yale Law School
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David J. Segre
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 32 years experience
(650) 320-4554 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business and Securities
 Harvard Law School
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Steven E. Bochner
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer. 36 years experience
(650) 354-4110 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business and Securities
 UC Berkeley School of Law
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John L. Slafsky
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer. 19 years experience
(650) 320-4574 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business, Communications, Consumer and IP
 New York University School of Law
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Dr. Karen K. Wong
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 14 years experience
(650) 849-3383 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business, Health Care and IP
 Santa Clara University School of Law
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David S. Steuer
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer. 31 years experience
(650) 320-4855 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business, Consumer, IP and Securities
 Harvard Law School
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Donna M. Petkanics
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer. 32 years experience
(650) 320-4606 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business and Securities
 University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
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Mario M. Rosati
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 45 years experience
(650) 320-4621 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business, Health Care and Securities
 University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
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Henry P. Massey Jr
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney. 48 years experience
(650) 320-4666 650 Page Mill Road
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Business and Securities
 Cornell Law School
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David J. Murphy
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San Jose, CA Business Law Attorney
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Kathryn E. Barrett
(408) 573-5700
San Jose, CA Business Law Lawyer
25 years experience
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Roger Royse
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Menlo Park, CA Business Law Attorney. 32 years experience
(650) 813-9700 149 Commonwealth Drive
Suite 1001
 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Free ConsultationBusiness and Tax
New York University School of Law and University of North Dakota School of Law
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Roger Royse, the founder of the Royse Law Firm, works with companies ranging from newly formed tech startups to publicly traded multinationals in a variety of industries, including technology, entertainment and new media, sports, real estate and agri-business. Roger regularly advises on complex tax structuring, high stakes business negotiations and large international financial transactions. Practicing business and tax law since 1984, Roger’s background includes work with prominent San Francisco Bay area law firms as well as Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy in New York City. Roger is active in leadership roles with several bar associations, including the following: ...
John C. Martin
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Menlo Park, CA Business Law Lawyer. 8 years experience
(650) 329-9500 1145 Merrill St.
 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Tax
Boston College Law School
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Attorney John Martin advises individuals, families, and businesses in the areas of legacy planning, wealth preservation, estate & business succession planning, and estate administration. Our law firm focuses exclusively on legacy planning, wealth preservation, estate and business succession planning, and estate administration. Our trust and estate planning services enable clients to protect their spouse's or child's s inheritance from creditors and predators, maximize control over their assets during their lifetime, benefit charities, and effectively transition their business to the next generation. Through an ongoing client maintenance program, we provide peace of mind that a client's goals will not...
Scott Adam Berman
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REDWOOD CITY, CA Business Law Attorney. 19 years experience
(650) 843-1900 2055 WOODSIDE RD
STE 110
 REDWOOD CITY, CA 94061-3366
Business, Employment and Insurance Claims
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
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I have extensive experience in employment, business, insurance and real estate litigation. In 1997, I graduated Order of the Coif (top 10%) from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. I clerked for the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney of the United States District Court, Northern District of California in 1999 and the Honorable Robert Boochever of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001. I practiced insurance law as an associate with Sonnenshein Nath & Rosenthal and employment law as an associate at Heller Ehrman. I focused on real estate litigation while working...
Harry Boadwee
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Los Altos, CA Business Law Lawyer. 29 years experience
(408) 253-6100 PO Box 4134
 Los Altos, CA 94024
Business and IP
Columbia Univ School of Law
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Jeffrey Kenton Lee
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Mountain View, CA Business Law Lawyer. 24 years experience
(650) 237-7271 1891 Landings Dr
 Mountain View, CA 94043
Business, Appeals, Environmental and IP
Vermont Law School and Vermont Law School
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Harry Isaac Price
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Los Altos, CA Business Law Attorney. 40 years experience
(650) 949-0840 40 Main St
 Los Altos, CA 94022
Business and Real Estate
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Aki Yoshikawa
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Mountain View, CA Business Law Lawyer. 23 years experience
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
 Mountain View, CA 94043
Business
Stanford Univ Law School
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Susan Kalra
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Menlo Park, CA Business Law Lawyer. 24 years experience
(650) 324-2223 545 Middlefield Rd
Suite 220
 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Business
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
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Mr. Richard Eric Anthony Dwyer Esq.
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Mountain View, CA Business Law Attorney. 27 years experience
(800) 372-9983 800 W. El Camino Real
Suite 180
 Mountain View, CA 94040
Business, Divorce and Real Estate
Stanford University
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Stephen Benda
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Menlo Park, CA Business Law Attorney. 30 years experience
(650) 323-6600 750 Menlo Avenue
Suite 350
 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Free ConsultationBusiness, Bankruptcy, Collections and Tax
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Marc G. van Niekerk
(408) 573-5700
San Jose, CA Business Law Lawyer
18 years experience
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Jill E. Fox
(408) 295-1700
Santa Clara, CA Business Law Lawyer
11 years experience
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Claire Kalia
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Mountain View, CA Business Law Lawyer.
(650) 701-7617 800 West El Camino Real
Suite 180
 Mountain View, CA 94040
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Michael Danko
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Redwood Shores, CA Business Law Attorney. 34 years experience
(650) 453-3600 333 Twin Dolphin Drive
Suite 145
 Redwood Shores, CA 94065
Business, Asbestos, Consumer and Insurance Claims
University of Virginia School of Law
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Trial lawyer representing those harmed due to the wrongful conduct of others. Catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, aviation, and business torts. The $14.9 million jury verdict we obtained for our client injured in a plane crash was one of the largest personal injury verdicts obtained in the state of California in 2008. The $20 million settlement we obtained for a client burned in a utility explosion was one of the largest personal injury settlements in the state for 2006. Other representative results: $10 million jury verdict for widow of man killed in California helicopter crash (2011); $2.6 million settlement for...
Melissa A. Wurster
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Sunnyvale, CA Business Law Lawyer. 19 years experience
(408) 416-2929 1230 Oakmead Pkwy
#306
 Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Free ConsultationBusiness, Construction and Real Estate
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Matthew G. Grech
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Redwood City, CA Business Law Lawyer. 9 years experience
(650) 743-2548 2000 Broadway St.
Suite 231
 Redwood City, CA 94063
Free ConsultationBusiness, Bankruptcy, Estate Planning and Probate
St. Thomas University School of Law
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As an attorney, Matthew Grech began his career as a civil litigator. From there Mr. Grech transitioned into estate planning and probate & estate administration. As an estate planning/administration attorney Mr. Grech has assisted numerous clients manage trust and estate administrations from inception to closing, as well as guiding and facilitating the planning process. It was during this time that Mr. Grech realized that a number of his clients’ family members and friends were facing mounting financial troubles in the wake of The Great Recession. It was this realization that motivated Mr. Grech to begin practicing bankruptcy law, which...
(408) 214-0385 111 North Market St.
Suite 300
 San Jose, CA 95113
(510) 270-5602 1300 Clay St.
Suite 600
 Oakland, CA 94612
George Grellas Esq.
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Cupertino, CA Business Law Lawyer. 39 years experience
(408) 255-6310 20400 Stevens Creek Blvd
 Cupertino, CA 95014
Business and IP
Santa Clara University School of Law
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I am a startup business lawyer and litigator practicing in Silicon Valley as head of a 4-lawyer boutique firm, George Grellas & Associates. We are business lawyers with a specialty in early-stage tech startups. Since 1984, we have helped small to medium-sized businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, and executives - several thousand in all. We help form companies - fund them - sell or merge or acquire them - sell their assets - do their corporate work, employment work, contracts, leases, and standard terms - licensing, trademark, and IP work - founder and equity incentive structures - commercial deals of all types. We...
Deirdre M. Digrande
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Sunnyvale, CA Business Law Lawyer. 19 years experience
(408) 416-2929 1230 Oakmead Pkwy
#306
 Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Free ConsultationBusiness, Construction, Insurance Defense and Real Estate
Santa Clara University School of Law
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James T. Erickson
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Santa Clara, CA Business Law Attorney.
(408) 919-0088 2930 Bowers Avenue
 Santa Clara, CA 95051
Business, Bankruptcy and Consumer
Santa Clara University School of Law
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Jim Erickson received his Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2004 (having transferred from Wisconsin Law School in Madison). Jim graduated in the top 10% of his law school class and was on the Dean's List from 2002-2004, while also serving as a research assistant for two professors. He was the Book Review Editor and Ethics Editor for the Santa Clara Law Review, where he published two articles. After graduating he received an unsolicited Fellows Scholarship, and was awarded membership in the prestigious Order of the Coif.
Inna Efimchik
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Redwood City, CA Business Law Lawyer. 12 years experience
(650) 298-6014 541 Jefferson Ave
Suite 100
 Redwood City, CA 94063
Business, Health Care and Securities
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Inna Efimchik has a corporate and securities practice, focusing on emerging growth companies and venture capital firms. Her practice includes general corporate counseling and securities advising, venture capital financings, debt transactions, corporate partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions. During her practice she has represented companies in a wide range of industries, including software, internet, mobile, life sciences, biotechnology, medical device, communications and clean technology. Prior to joining Emergence Law Group, Inna Efimchik practiced corporate and securities law in the emerging companies groups at Cooley LLP and, previously, at Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group. In 2005, Inna Efimchik earned a J.D. from University...
Andrew Dylan Winghart
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Redwood City, CA Business Law Lawyer. 18 years experience
(510) 593-8546 495 Seaport Court
Suite 104
 Redwood City, CA 94063
Business, IP and Insurance Claims
Tulane Univ Law School
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Yoshito Yamamoto
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Sunnyvale, CA Business Law Lawyer. 11 years experience
(408) 660-3928 1250 Oakmead Parkway
Suite 210
 Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Free ConsultationBusiness, Employment, Securities and Tax
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Jonathan Alan Blau
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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney
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David Duperrault
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San Jose, CA Business Law Lawyer
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