Nikki B. Allen brings a wealth of experience to her legal practice. She is licensed in both California and Colorado and has practiced law for over twenty years. Ms. Allen began her career in 2000 as an attorney in Denver, Colorado with Kutak Rock, LLP, a national law firm with more than 450 attorneys in 16 offices. She specialized in finance law, where she represented numerous municipal clients and real estate developers. She was involved in the closing of numerous multi-million dollar transactions. When Ms. Allen moved to Palm Desert, California in 2005, she broadened her practice to include all types of business law, including the purchases and sales of real estate and businesses, entity formation and contract drafting. Specifically, she focuses on estate planning, which include wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advanced health care directives and special needs trusts. Ms. Allen also represents clients in probate and trust litigation, as well as the administration of trusts and probate of estates. She handles all real estate issues and civil litigation, including homeowner association disputes, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, and construction disputes. Ms. Allen loves helping her clients resolve their legal issues. She also strives to help her clients avoid costly litigation. Ms. Allen attended the University of Massachusetts where she played Division I soccer with a fabulous team, including US Women’s National Team Player Brianna Scurry. She had the neat opportunity of playing in the Final Four against Mia Hamm. Ms. Allen graduated cum laude from the University of Denver College of Law in 2000 and is a member of the California and Colorado Bar Associations. She was on the University of Denver Law Review and had an article published while still in law school. Palm Springs Life Magazine named her as a “Top Lawyer” for the past ten years in a row, consecutively. In addition to practicing law, she enjoys living in Palm Desert with her husband, her eleven year old son, Jack, and coaching his soccer team.

Brett C. Drouet, Esq., is a sixth generation Southern Californian, who has served Southern, Central and Northern California clients for over two decades as a member of the California State Bar. Mr. Drouet is recognized as a litigator’s litigator, who is uniquely experienced in catastrophic personal injury and death actions for trauma victims in auto accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, bus accidents, bicycle accidents, worksite accidents, DUI victim/plaintiff, construction defect, product liability and medical malpractice. Having represented Fortune 500 companies and major insurance companies’ insureds in thousands of catastrophic personal injury and death actions for over a decade, Mr. Drouet is a seasoned litigation veteran representing trauma victims, who have suffered life-changing injuries for over a decade. Traumatic, catastrophic personal injuries require an attorney with extensive, broad-based knowledge of evidence based medicine, treatment, and medical causation to best serve trauma victims, which is why Mr. Drouet is called upon to co-counsel and consult with other attorneys and law firms representing California trauma victims. Mr. Drouet has significant experience and expertise in product liability in catastrophic personal injury and death actions involving consumer products, chemical products, toxic substances, industrial products, industrial machinery, construction equipment, vehicles, tires, wheels, housing components, construction materials, and finished products. Mr. Drouet has substantial experience and practice in brain injury, loss of brain function, burn injury and Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome injuries.

Mr. Macias is a native Californian and has been a Business, Real Estate and Personal Injury Litigator for over 35+ years. His passion is directed towards helping his clients resolve their issues, in most cases, without the need for costly litigation. When it comes to litigation, Mr. Macias says, "It is time to “Stop the Madness". Every effort is made to attempt to resolve the legal issues and achieve a resolution of a matter which is acceptable to his clients. Mr. Macias states, "But if all else fails and the case is one of those cases that needs to be tried, so be it!" Accident and Injury Cases: With reference to handling Personal Injury cases, Mr. Macias having also been injured in a head on collision and sustaining injuries, he prides himself on understanding the injuries and the pain and suffering that goes along with the traumatic event and can relate to the ordeal the clients are going through. Thus, his primary objective is to get the clients to receive the proper medical treatment and completely heal to the extent that the injury allows for it. Thereafter, the goal is to work to obtain adequate compensation for the clients' pain and suffering so that they can once again get their life together and move forward and live as much of a normal life as possible. Mediation is always an option he recommends to clients. It gives all parties concerned an opportunity to work on resolving disputes before engaging in prolonged litigation. Real Estate, Landlord and Construction Matters: As a California licensed Real Estate Broker and home builder, Mr. Macias has had the opportunity to represent Contractors, Construction workers, Material Vendors, Landlords, (Commercial and Residential), Lenders, Banks and Realtors, in resolving day to day legal issues they encounter in their businesses. Mr. Macias states, “it is my job to try to resolve their legal problems so they can get back to the business of being in business and to thrive.” Drafting and negotiating commercial leases or any other Real Estate agreement is an art and requires detail awareness and skills to avoid future conflicts and/or disagreements. Mr. Macias enjoys this aspect of the Real Estate Business and is ready to negotiate your lease (commercial or residential) or to handle any type of Real Estate problem when the need arises. Legal Services are provided throughout the State of California. California State Bar no. 117267. He can be reached, for a free consultation, at (408) 420-5723 or email at emacias@maciaslaw.com https://www.lawyer.com/ernest-macias.html