Designer Divorces Focus on Client’s Best Interests

I thought that learning my spouse was leaving me was the worst day of my life. But I had no idea I was about to lose control over my life for the next year. I would be abandoning final decisions about children and financial issues to the courts. And at least $50,000 just for the lawyers’ fees? Life was about to get a whole lot worse.

In 2009, three of Los Angeles County’s most respected family attorneys left their positions at larger law firms to establish and offer a better alternative to the traditional divorce experience. Grace A. Jamra and Basel G. Jamra …Read More →

Passionately Serving the Automotive Industry

If there was ever a business built on passion, Michaels Law Group is it. Located in the beautiful Newport Beach harbor, and founded by avid car enthusiast Jonathan Michaels, Michaels Law Group exudes its founder’s love of all things automotive.

“I am incredibly fortunate,” says Michael. “If I could do anything in the world, I would spend my days surrounded by cars and car enthusiasts. It has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember.”

But good fortune  only came with relentless hard work, and clever thinking. It’s what Michael calls the opposite theory: “My philosophy has always been that if you want to be successful, you need to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing.”

Newport Beach, CA
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949.581.6900

Workers’ Compensation Defense
Helping Employers Survive in California

A national hotel chain had allowed hundreds of workers’ comp claims to spiral out of control. Faced with the prospect of devastating financial losses, the company turned to the Law Offices of Robert Wheatley for help. As a result, the client’s workers’ comp program was put back on track and the company saved an estimated $5 million.

For over 20 years, the Law Offices of Robert Wheatley has been one of the leading workers’ comp defense firms in California. With over 30 attorneys and hearing representatives, it is one of the …Read More →

Health Care Reimbursement Lawyers Provide Relief Where it Hurts: In the Insurance Denial

Joy Young Stephenson set out to be a doctor, like her brother. But along the way, she realized law had a stronger pull on her than medicine did, so she became an attorney instead. She opened a practice specializing in health care and began treating patients to a brand of healing no doctor provides: She works on behalf of clients when insurance companies or government payors deny claims or dispute contract provisions. Her operating room is a courtroom. …Read More →

Known for Success – and Meticulous Preparation – in Civil Cases

A man dead of cancer. Five defendants accused of seeking financial gain by withholding health care. There was something classical about the civil case. Richard J. Ryan saw it clearly. He made the jury see it, too.

When the eight-month trial ended with all defendants cleared, one of the jurors noted that the evidence had borne out what lead counsel Ryan said in his opening statement: Plaintiff was driven by a desire for vengeance against people who had nothing to do with the illness or death. …Read More →

Expert Solutions to Complex Estate Planning Challenges

The new estate tax law, hammered out during the fiscal cliff negotiations of late 2012, was a relief for many wealthy Americans.

“Congress made permanent, insofar as any tax law is permanent, a tax rate of 40 percent on estates and gifts of $5 million or more,” says Sussan H. Shore, shareholder/managing director of Weinstock Manion. “Some people had feared a return to much higher tax rates and lower exemptions.”

Still, Shore says, expert estate planning continues to be of paramount importance, both for the small number of Americans …Read More →