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Dion U. Davi is the principal and founding attorney of Davi Law Group, LLC, a private practice dedicated to helping those in need. Knowledgeable in many areas of law, Attorney Davi concentrates his practice on family law, divorce, estate planning, personal injury, and criminal defense. Committed to providing legal representation to many different clients, Attorney Davi has offices located in Naperville, Wheaton, Joliet, Chicago, and Plainfield, Illinois. Additionally, Attorney Davi handles motorsport business legal matters, including motorsport business company formation, contracts for motorsport businesses, operations management, and more. To schedule a free consultation with Attorney Davi, visit his website, or call 630-657-5052.

Adair Buckner was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. She attended both undergraduate and law school at Texas Tech, and her blood runs red and black. Her husband’s grandmother was the very first graduate of Texas Tech. Her children were the 56th & 57th members of her husband’s family to attend Tech. Adair majored in business management as an undergraduate, finishing with honors. She immediately began law school and graduated with highest honors. While in law school, Adair was the Comments Editor of the Texas Tech Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif (the top 10% of the class). When she finished law school in 1976, Adair moved back to Amarillo to begin her law practice. She has been in law firms, large and small, during her practice and is now a sole practitioner. Adair has been actively involved in the Amarillo Area Bar Association and Amarillo Area Bar Foundation, having served on the boards and as president of both groups. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas Real Estate, and Estate Planning, and Probate, and the Labor and Employment Law sections. She has been board certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1996. She practices management-side only in employment law.

Mr. Bendel received his B.S. in Finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Connecticut in 1997. He then went on to receive his J.D., magna cum laude, in 2000 from Pepperdine University, where he was a member of the Pepperdine Law Review. Upon graduating from law school, Mr. Bendel joined the Los Angeles office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, where he practiced for over twelve years. While at Stroock, Mr. Bendel handled complex business litigation, including securities disputes, small business dissolutions, insurance coverage and bad faith matters, and other business and commercial disputes. The primary focus of Mr. Bendel’s practice is insurance coverage and insurance bad faith litigation. He has provided coverage advice and/or been involved in bad faith litigation with respect to claims made under all types of insurance policies including Commercial General Liability, Directors & Officers, Errors & Omissions, Property, Homeowners, and Automobile insurance policies. Mr. Bendel is admitted to practice before all federal and state courts in California, including the California Court of Appeal and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has tried cases in federal and state courts in Northern and Southern California. In total, Mr. Bendel has over fifteen weeks of trial experience. Mr. Bendel also has experience at the appellate level; he has drafted a number of successful appellate briefs.

Joel Glaser is the principal of Joel Glaser APC in the Los Angeles, Newport Beach and San Diego offices. His practice includes Employment and Business Litigation. Mr. Glaser has extensive experience in Employment Practices Liability, including defending whistleblower, wrongful termination, harassment, race, age, disability, and gender discrimination and retaliation cases. He has also defended wage and hour class actions and single plaintiff cases. Additionally, he has counseled employees and employers on employment-related matters such as applications and hiring, sexual harassment policies and training, employment handbooks, internal investigations, compliance issues, employee discipline issues, severance agreements and termination issues. He has represented clients in both state and federal court, and before the California Labor Board, Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Unemployment Appeals Board. In the area of Business Litigation, Mr. Glaser has handled issues related to business litigation, real estate, collections and compliance issues. He has brought and defended numerous general business litigation actions, including actions for breach of contract, fraud, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, specific performance, quiet title, landlord-tenant discrimination, insurance bad faith, professional liability, products liability, and collections claims. Mr. Glaser has tried to verdict several employment and personal injury claims, tried to a defense verdict a homeowners’ association dispute, obtained summary judgment for a government contractor on an age and disability discrimination action, and has obtained positive feedback from clients on the excellent results he has obtained in defending allegations of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, breach of contract and product defects. Prior to forming Joel Glaser APC, Mr. Glaser successfully tried and arbitrated several cases to verdicts favorable to his clients at AmLaw 100 firms. Mr. Glaser represents companies in several industries throughout the United States, including government contractors, hotels, restaurants, appliance stores, hardware stores, electronics stores, industrial manufacturers, banks, private lenders, product manufacturers, distributors and retailers, real estate management companies, and other companies in various industries.

We aggressively represent the best interests of our clients, and fight for results they deserve. Upon being licensed to practice law in 2000, Ross Jurewitz dedicated his career to representing injury victims. He is the founder and managing attorney of Jurewitz Law Group | Injury & Accident Lawyers, which has been recognized in publications throughout the United States, including Time and Newsweek®. Mr. Jurewitz is a frequent guest legal expert on local and national television news programs. Mr. Jurewitz received his J.D. at Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C., in 2000. Prior to his law degree, Mr. Jurewitz completed a bachelor’s degree in Political Science (with a minor in Law & Society) at the University of California, San Diego. Mr. Jurewitz is licensed to practice law before all courts in the State of California. In 2002, he joined the prestigious San Diego personal injury firm of Hoey and Morgan, representing injury victims in litigation and as trial counsel. In 2004, Mr. Jurewitz formed the partnership of Wick Jurewitz, where he took the lessons learned in the large firm he had just left and combined them with the personal touch found in smaller firms. Continuing the same philosophy and expanding his practice to represent workers' compensation and employment law clients, Mr. Jurewitz formed Jurewitz Law Group | Injury & Accident Lawyers in 2007. Mr. Jurewitz currently lives in a coastal North County home. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife, their daughter, and their two dogs, Ace (an American Bulldog) and Blackjack (a German shepherd mix). He also enjoys playing golf, traveling, and spending the fall rooting for the University of Texas Longhorns football team.

For more than 24 years, R. Joseph Kerendian has delivered legal representation to businesses and individuals throughout Los Angeles and Southern California. His practice focuses primarily on real estate matters, including all types of residential and commercial business transactions, from preparing and negotiating agreements of sale to follow-through and successful deal closure. In addition to real estate, Mr. Kerendian has broad experience providing strategic, in-depth counsel in the areas of business law, personal injury and civil litigation. In all his cases, Mr. Kerendian is committed to providing his clients with expert legal advice and effective solutions. In addition to practicing law, Mr. Kerendian is also a Real Estate Broker assisting individuals and investors in real estate development and management. He represents a wide range of clientele from first time buyers and sellers to executives and has extensive experience in real estate transactions, sales, and lease agreements in residential and commercial real estate projects for start-ups, emerging enterprises, and established companies. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Kerendian has been involved with and in charge of hundreds of real estate development projects, including acquisition, development, management of commercial and residential properties throughout Southern California. He has been an integral part of contract negotiations and has extensive experience in handling residential and commercial transactions and is highly experienced in delivering successful outcomes for his client.

K&L Law Group, P.C. is a law practice based in La Verne, California, focusing on business law, labor and employment and commercial real estate matters. Grace M. Kim has been practicing since 2004 and is a member of the California and Nevada state bars. She is also a member of the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, Clark County Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Whether you are trying to close a commercial real estate deal, have a question about an employment or labor matter or need help with other business law issues, K&L Law Group is ready to help you. We are committed to providing excellence in client services, a high level of expertise in business and real estate law and the best results possible in every matter we handle.

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

Alex Mehdipour attended the University of California San Diego where he received his degree in political science. After graduating from UCSD, Mr. Mehdipour attended Southwestern University School of Law where he received his JD. Upon passing the bar, Mr. Mehdipour gained invaluable experience both in a law firm and business setting. Mr. Mehdipour uses his prior business and legal experiences to negotiate the most advantageous results for his clients.

Michael Rogers primarily represents national and regional automotive dealership clients in a wide variety of legal matters including consumer actions and complex litigation, federal and state regulatory matters, unfair competition claims, commercial and consumer litigation, labor and employment issues and franchise disputes. He has significant experience in effectively resolving high-stakes litigation and providing counsel for litigation avoidance and regulatory compliance. In addition to automotive dealerships, his clients include automotive affiliated businesses such as finance companies, flooring lenders, automobile service centers, and surety bonding companies. In addition to his extensive understanding of the complexities of the automotive industry, Michael’s particular experience includes successfully representing individuals and business entities in complex, catastrophic personal injury matters including products and premises liability litigation; representing employers on a wide range of employment issues including discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, and wage and hour violations; and representing clients involved in breach of contract, unfair business practices, trade secret violations, and UCC litigation. Known for his straightforward, sensible and strategic approach, Michael also works hand-in-hand with clients in business transactions including corporate, partnership and limited liability company formations as well as business stock and asset sales, real property acquisitions, and commercial leases. While in college, Michael spent his summers working for the U.S. Forest Service as a wildland firefighter, including as a Hotshot and Smokejumper, parachuting into remote wilderness fires. Now he fights battles in the legal arena instead of the forests. His clients and courtroom adversaries find that the “in the trenches” work ethic Michael acquired as a firefighter makes him an exceptional advocate. Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of San Diego and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law. He is active in the automotive industry and in San Diego’s legal community and is a member of the California Independent Auto Dealers Association, the Defense Research Institute, the National Association of Dealership Counsel, the National Independent Auto Dealers Association, the San Diego County Bar Association and the San Diego New Car Dealers Association.