About Us

I founded my law firm over 15 years ago and I have been on a mission to put a dent in the universe ever since. As an entrepreneur myself, I engineered my law firm to thrive by providing outstanding service to, and achieving outstanding results for, my clients. I relish the opportunity to ignite success. As a businessman and technology enthusiast, I actively seek out opportunities to build, safeguard, manage and monetize ideas and innovations.

I am honored to have been selected as a Super Lawyer the past 2 years for exhibiting notable excellence in my field.

As such, I have become an irreplaceable asset to the entrepreneurs, businesses and large corporations I represent. I have extensive experience in complex business, trust, probate and estate plannings well as in foreign and domestic business and intellectual property law matters. My practice includes the representation, organization and maintenance of foreign and domestic businesses as well as the representation of clients in both large and small corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions. My corporate experience not only includes the organization and maintenance of corporate entities as well as franchises, but also the preparation of a wide variety of complex business contracts. I enjoy working on merger and acquisitions; corporate restructuring; shareholder and buy-sell agreements;real estate and business investment transactions, contracts and negotiations; distribution agreements; stock-option agreements, employment and independent contractor agreements; trademark and copyright matters; as well as complex intellectual property agreements.

I am a member of the Orange County Bar Association, the California State Bar Association’s Business and Corporate Law Section as well as the Business and Corporate Law, Community Services, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, Real Property Law and Law Practice Management and Marketing Sections of the Bar Association. I am a dad, an Attorney, a Wealth Counsel estate & business planning member, a formerly licensed California Real Estate Broker for 10+ years, a published author, and an entrepreneur myself – starting my first business at the age of eight. I was a columnist for the San Diego Lawyer Magazine’s Technology column and has authored articles including “Stepping up to Tech,” “Small Firms, Big Impact” and “In Defense of Technology.” In 2011, I was a finalist in San Diego Daily Transcript’s Young Attorney awards for best young attorneys.

I grew up in Huntington Beach, California before attending and receiving my bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As a NCAA intercollegiate base ball athlete, I was honored with 11 awards for academic achievement as a student athlete. The day after graduating UCLA, I moved down to San Diego and started law School at California Western School of Law, where I earned my Juries Doctor degree. After completing law school in 2 years (rather than the normal 3-year time frame), I began studying for my master’s degree in Tax Law (LLM) at the University of San Diego School of Law. Upon passing the California Bar Exam halfway through my LLM degree, I founded my own law firm the day after being sworn in 2004.

I started my first business at the age of eight, “Dan’s Bird Farm” where I bred and supplied exotic birds to the four local pet stores in Huntington Beach. After living in San Diego for almost 20 years, I now reside in Huntington Beach , California with my son and my miniature Australian Sheppard, Gizmo. I enjoy spending time with my son and family, as well as anything tech or cutting edge, snorkeling, golfing, snowboarding, starting businesses, giving back to the community, feeding the homeless, traveling, watching sports, Formula 1 and eating sushi.