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Alpert & Barr

Areas of Practice

Alpert, Barr & Grant provides legal services in the following areas:

Alpert, Barr & Grant serves clients locally, statewide, nationally and internationally. Our client base ranges from individuals to small businesses to national and international conglomerates. We represent banks and financing companies, cable television providers, automotive dealerships, real estate developers, real estate brokers, property management businesses, government agencies, manufacturers, trust companies and numerous businesses and individuals throughout California and the world. Our approach to all clients is simple: provide each with competent, effective, cost-appropriate legal representation with individualized service.

Administrative & Government Relations

Alpert, Barr & Grant serves as an advocate for clients before local, county and state government entities. We represent individuals and businesses at administrative hearings. We regularly resolve issues involving public works, zoning, conditional use permits, contracts, earthquake safety disputes and other similar matters. Our attorneys have served on state, county and city government boards and commissions. The knowledge obtained through this service enhances our ability to work with officials on behalf of our clients.

Arbitration & Mediation

Alpert, Barr & Grant is a strong proponent of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as a viable means to resolve conflict. We are often asked to arbitrate and mediate cases involving construction, business, real estate and complex family law disputes. Principal Lee Kanon Alpert was the first West Coast mediator for the American Arbitration Association and helped establish its West Coast Mediation Center. We bring an impartial perspective to every arbitration and mediation hearing so both sides receive a fair airing of their concerns. During meditations, our goal is to find common ground between the parties and to work out a mutually acceptable solution.

Bankruptcy/Creditors' Rights

Our attorneys understand the urgent nature of creditors' rights during bankruptcy. We are experienced in all aspects of bankruptcy law and appear regularly on behalf of our creditor clients in Bankruptcy Court. We make judicious use of the members of our paralegal staff who effectively complete many bankruptcy procedures, which in turn, reduces costs to clients.

Business/Corporate/Real Estate Transactions

Our attorneys represent clients in all facets of business/corporate/real estate law including incorporations, leases, contracts, limited partnerships and sophisticated real estate transactions. We properly and thoroughly complete these transactions in a timely manner. An accurately prepared transaction can frequently prevent litigation if a dispute later arises.

Cable Franchising, Negotiations, Consulting & Strategic Planning

Lee Kanon Alpert has more than 25 years experience assisting cable operators with franchise and compliance issues and with refranchising negotiations. He has served as offsite general legal counsel, strategist, consultant and lead refranchising negotiator for Time Warner Cable and its predecessors and has renegotiated the Los Angeles refranchising of Time Warner’s existing franchise since the inception of cable in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

Civil, Business & Real Property Transactions and Litigation

Our trial attorneys are experienced and well-respected litigators, representing plaintiffs and defendants in jury and non-jury trials. Our firm has successfully serviced clients in disputes involving banking, general business, real estate, breach of contract, foreclosures, broker's commission, bankruptcy, commercial and residential evictions, construction, collection, injunctive relief and in business tort matters.

We aggressively pursue litigation when it is in the best interest of our client, fully employing all legal means including (when appropriate) obtaining attachments, receiverships and injunctions. We support arbitration and mediation as alternative forms of dispute resolution and will suggest their use whenever we believe they would be beneficial to clients.

Landlord-Tenant Law

Our attorneys are experienced in all phases of landlord-tenant law and take part in lease negotiations and lease preparation. We represent landlords, receivers and financial institutions in unlawful detainers, and as creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.

Manufactured Housing/Mobile Home Law

Our attorneys are uniquely expert in manufactured housing and mobile home law including foreclosures, bankruptcy protection, evictions, mobile home park disputes, governmental compliance issues and loan documentation. We assist in streamlining foreclosure procedures to minimize client legal fees when possible. When needed, we complete foreclosures, pursue unlawful detainer judgments and obtain relief from automatic bankruptcy stay provisions. Our paralegal staff completes many of the necessary procedures when appropriate to contain costs for clients.

Offsite General Counsel

Not all businesses need an in-house legal department, but from time to time, all businesses require the legal expertise and guidance that skilled corporate and business counsel affords.

Many businesses often wait until an issue develops into a legal problem before they contact an attorney for guidance. With an offsite general counsel in place, potential problems can be spotted and addressed before they have a chance to develop into a costly legal issue. Since offsite general counsel is familiar with how a client's business operates everything from preparing contracts to protecting trade secrets can benefit from this legal expertise.

Alpert, Barr & Grant attorneys offer offsite general counsel services to businesses of all sizes. These services include:

  • Strategic business counseling utilizing top legal and business experts,
  • Contracts and other business document preparation,
  • Identifying and addressing areas where the company could encounter legal problems, risk and liability,
  • Recognizing immediate legal issues and providing appropriate legal remedies,
  • Trademark and copyright protection
  • Overseeing vendors and suppliers
  • Trade secrets protection
  • Insurance coverage evaluation
  • Pre-litigation strategies,
  • Board member search implementation,
  • Human resources consultation,
  • Labor relations

Real Estate Foreclosure Law & Related Matters

Our attorneys specialize in real and personal property foreclosure issues in California. We advise lenders and others on foreclosure related matters and often work with foreclosure trustees. We represent parties, including lenders, in foreclosure litigation and foreclosure-related issues in bankruptcy court. Our attorneys have made presentations on foreclosure topics to numerous organizations and have written extensively on the subject.