Our Litigation Practice includes:
- Commercial litigation, with a strong emphasis on defending business clients against unfair competition claims (including complaints under California Business & Professions Code Section 17200 et seq.)
- Employment litigation, including defending businesses against a wide variety of employment claims
- Trust and probate litigation, including representing both trustees and beneficiaries in trust and probate disputes
- Intellectual property litigation, including assisting business clients with prosecuting those who seek to infringe on such clients’ trademarks, tradenames, domain names, and copyrighted material
- Products liability litigation
- Construction defect litigation
- Material contract litigation
- Environmental litigation
- Real estate litigation
- Earth movement litigation
Consistent with our goal of providing cost effective legal representation, we strive to resolve litigation without the need to proceed with costly discovery/trials. However, disputes inevitably arise which simply are not able to be resolved through settlement or summary adjudication. In those cases, we are ready and willing to aggressively advocate on the client’s behalf, all the way through the trial and appeal process (if necessary). James D. Claytor has been involved in approximately one hundred (100) trials during the course of his approximately thirty five (35) year litigation career.