Experienced business, probate, and trust litigators…we deliver cost-effective results.
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Experienced business, probate, and trust litigators…
delivering cost-effective results.
About Hoffman Legal Corporation
For years, Hoffman Legal Corporation has been providing reliable business, probate, and trust litigation services to clients in Southern California and nationwide. We are recognized for delivering cost-effective results for individuals, businesses, and corporations in a wide range of industry sectors. Our clients turn to our experienced team because they trust the proactive and tenacious way we represent them in mediation, arbitration, or in the courtroom.
Areas of practice
Services
We aggressively advocate on behalf of our clients to save unnecessary legal costs and we analyze cases thoroughly upfront. We then develop a unique strategy that often results in early settlement or case-dispositive court rulings for our clients’ benefit. Our clients achieve exceptional success involving various disputes at arbitration, mediation, jury trials, bench trials, and appeals.
Our expansive litigation services also include:
- Trust Accountings
- Business interference actions
- Commercial collection lawsuits
- Conversion
- Corporate director/officer liability
- Defamation and libel
- Elder abuse
- Fraudulent transfer
- Landlord/tenant and unlawful detainer
- Partnership/shareholder disputes
- Real estate/title/easement disputes
- Trademark and copyright infringement
- Trade secrets
- Unfair competition
- Wrongful termination of key employees
what our clients say
“Hoffman Legal Corporation recently helped resolve my case quickly and efficiently. If I had worked with the firm initially, I am convinced the case time would have been saved and overall legal costs would have been greatly reduced. From our first meeting, the frank advice we were given by the attorneys at Hoffman Legal Corporation, was key to confirming the reality I had been feeling all along.”
“When working with Sandra Becker at Hoffman Legal Corporation, her intelligence and focus was evident throughout our work together. Sandra’s ability to look beyond just facts was critical and she quickly assessed emotional factors that were driving multiple parties with disparate objectives. Coupled with Paul Hoffman’s experience and his ability to project costs and the benefits of mediation and trial, I received the “reality check” I was looking for. In short, I received professional service and advice.”
“It was no small feat for us to get the great settlement in our legal case that we achieved recently. The key was being fully prepared to go to trial, but willing to settle for a reasonable amount if the opportunity presented itself. Our 13 hours in mediation together produced results that saved months of time, tens of thousands of dollars, and freed us from a burden that could have lasted years.”
achievements
$4 million
Our clients were cheated out of their benefits under an employment agreement. We sued the company and its principals for breach of contract, fraud, concealment, conspiracy, and severe emotional distress. After a 6-week trial, the jury awarded our clients almost $4 million, including $2.7 million in punitive damages.
$4.1 million
We obtained a $4.1 million dollar verdict for our clients after a 4-week jury trial, which found the defendant had converted our client’s investment of $600,000 in a real estate partnership.
Dismissed
We obtained the dismissal of securities fraud claims potentially worth millions of dollars against seven limited partnership clients. The Court granted our motion on the grounds of the statute of limitations and the Court of Appeal affirmed in a published opinion.
Undue Influence
A client’s mother with dementia was unduly influenced by the client’s sister to sign a will and trust, disinheriting the client 10 days before her mother died. We sued to invalidate the trust and to surcharge the sibling for her fraud in attempting to enforce the invalid trust. After a deposition which destroyed her defenses, the greedy sibling agreed to a settlement restoring the full amount of our client’s inheritance.
Dishonest Trustee
A dishonest trustee tried to cover up the fraudulent expenses he incurred for the trust, in an attempt to secure more than his share of a testamentary trust. We obtained an order for an accounting and settled the case for a large sum of cash, after exposing the dishonest trustee in deposition, proving that his claims for reimbursement were fraudulent.
Anti-SLAPP Dismissal
A client was sued for using an allegedly false psychiatric evaluation in a court proceeding and for violating the plaintiff’s privacy by obtaining proof of the plaintiff’s affairs. We filed an anti-SLAPP motion to strike these allegations from the complaint. The case was dismissed on very favorable terms after the filing the motion.
Harassment Order
Our client was physically assaulted and harassed at a political rally by a member of a rival group who was continuing to threaten the client. We obtained a court order requiring the defendant to stay away from our client and to not contact him either directly or indirectly, in person, or on social media.
Defamation Retraction
A major university student newspaper defamed our client and damaged his reputation by claiming he was a terrorist. We intervened and obtained a public retraction of the false claim and the removal of the slanderous accusation.
five-Figure Settlement
We achieved a large five figure settlement on behalf of an investment advisor and asset manager who performed valuable services for a trust, but who was accused of having a disqualifying conflict of interest with one of the trust beneficiaries.
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