Legal Services & Lawyers

Serving all of California, including the following cities:


Alameda, CA
Anaheim, CA
Azusa, CA
Bakersfield, CA
Big Bear, CA
Calabasas, CA
Cardiff by the Sea, CA
Carlsbad, CA
Chico, CA
Chula Vista, CA
Coronado, CA
Del Mar, CA
Downey, CA
El Cajon, CA
El Monte, CA
Encinitas, CA
Escondido,
Imperial Beach, CA
Indian Wells, CA
La Jolla, CA
La Mesa, CA
La Verne, CA
Lake Elsinore, CA
Lemon Grove, CA
Los Angeles, CA
National City, CA
Oceanside, CA
Orange County, CA
Palm Springs, CA
Poway, CA
Ramona, CA
Rancho Bernardo, CA
Sacramento, CA
San Francisco, CA
San Marcos, CA
Santee, CA
Solana Beach, CA


SERIOUS PERSONAL INJURY AND ACCIDENTS

Practice Areas

* Asbestos Exposure
* Auto Accident
* Truck Semi Accident
* Big Rig Accident
* Motorcycle Accident
* Car Accident
* Catastrophic Injury
* Child Molestation
* Bicycle Accident
* Pedestrian Accidents
* Dog Bite and other Animal Bites
* Back Injury
* Neck Injury
* Brain Injury
* Birth Injury
* Head Injury
* Boating Accident
* Construction Worker Injuries
* Dangerous Product Liability
* Recalled Products
* Hospital Negligence
* Doctor Negligence
* Physician Negligence
* Prescription Drug Medicine
* Lead Paint Exposure
* Medical Malpractice
* Nursing Home Neglect
* Nursing Home Abuse
* Slip and Fall
* Toxic Mold
* Sexual Abuse
* Sexual Molestation
* Wrongful Death

Since forming Wisner Dispute Resolution Services in 2003, Alec Wisner has been using his unique and diverse background to assist hundreds of clients successfully resolve their disputes. Thoroughly trained in all aspects of mediation, especially in the areas of divorce and family mediation as well as commercial mediation, Alec provides both an understanding of the underlying issues and an ability to facilitate positive communication.

Alec brings a rich and diverse background to his mediation practice. While attending U.C.L.A., he won numerous national debate awards, graduating in 1971. Alec matriculated at the University of Southern California Law Center, earning his J.D. in 1974.

From 1975 through 1978, Mr. Wisner developed his legal skills in the areas of family and commercial law. In 1978, seeking new challenges, he entered the world of corporate business. During the ensuing eighteen years, Alec served in top management in the printing/publishing industry. In this capacity, he managed the growth or several medium-size corporations and was personally responsible for the spinoff of several new, successful enterprises. Mr. Wisner is still actively involved as a director of such corporations as Golden Triangle Financial Services, located in Las Vegas, NV.

Returning to the full-time practice of law, Mr. Wisner became a principal in Stanbury Fishelman & Wisner, Inc., in Los Angeles, California. As an attorney, Mr. Wisner's practice encompassed complex civil litigation, class actions, as well as family law.

PERSONAL INJURY

*Amusement Park Accidents
*Assault and Battery
*Auto Accidents
*Bicycle Accidents
*Boating Accidents
*Brain Injuries
*Construction Accidents
*Injuries from Burns
*Dangerous Condition Accidents
*Dog Bites
*Excessive Force By Police Officers/Police Brutality
*Helicopter Accidents
*Hit and Run Accidents
*Longshore and Maritime Accidents
*Motorcycle Accidents
*Negligent Supervision
*Pedestrian Accidents
*Premises Liability / Slip and Fall Accidents
*Product Recalls
*School Bus Accidents
*Sexual Abuse
*Truck Accidents
*Train and Railroad Accidents
*Trip and Fall Accidents
*Workplace Accidents

REAL ESTATE LITIGATION

*Mold LItigation
*Landlord Tenant
*Residential Real Estate
*Homeowners Association Law
*Fraud
*Foreclosures

BANKRUPTCY

PROBATE

CONSUMER LAW AND ADVOCACY

*Advertising Law
*Promotion Law
*Unsafe Products
*Product Labeling
*Financial Fraud
*Abusive Debt Collection Practices
*Consumer Scams
*Drugs
*Medical Devices
*Asbestos Exposure
*Supplements
*Real Estate
*Automotive
*Internet & Technology

NURSING HOME/ELDER ABUSE

*Elder Abuse
*Skilled Nursing Facilities
*Residential Care Facilities
*Financial Abuse
*Unfair Business Practices

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jeffrey R. Marquart attended the Illinois Institute of Technology where he was on the Dean's List and graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Thereafter, he attended the University of Notre Dame Law School where he was the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Commercial Transactions and received his Juris Doctorate in 1987. Following his admission to the Illinois and Federal Bars in 1987, he practiced with a prominent Intellectual Property firm in Chicago, with an emphasis on Patent, Trademark and related litigation. In 1989, he was admitted to the California Bar and joined another prominent Los Angeles firm where he specialized in Patent Litigation.

In 1991, he left the intellectual property arena to join a civil litigation firm specializing in products liability and personal injury. In 1997, he founded of the Tustin based firm of Smith and Marquart. In 2006, he formed the Marquart Law Group to establish a highly technical and innovative boutique firm specializing in the representation of those who have been injured by the wrongful conduct of individuals and business entities. Mr. Marquart’s experience includes the prosecution of highly complex products liability cases involving industrial machinery, automobile steering systems, stability and crashworthiness, tire design, residential appliances, playground equipment and children’s toys, furniture and restraint systems. He has prosecuted a multitude of cases involving significant automobile, cycling and trucking accidents.

He resides in Coto de Caza California with his wife Lisa, and their three daughters, Katherine, Caroline and Courtney. He actively participates in golf, mountain biking and ice hockey. He is an automobile enthusiast and collector. Above all, he is a staunch supported of his alma mater, the University of Notre Dame.

My practice focuses on working with individuals and small businesses to create estate and business plans that address the client's concerns and needs.

Attorney Joel Weissler is a California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization Certified Tax Law Specialist. After earning his three year law degree in only two years and being admitted to the California Bar, Attorney Weissler earned an LLM in Taxation, Cum Laude from the University of San Diego. In addition to being admitted to practice in all California Courts, he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California and the Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorney Weissler is a member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). In addition, he is a member of Wealth Counsel, and a charter member of Elder Counsel. Joel's goal in founding the Weissler Law Group was, and remains, to touch client's lives by providing the highest level of legal representation in areas which make a difference for clients and their families.

Law Firm Overview =============================
Weissler Law Group is devoted to delivering the highest level of technical competence and care, combining our extensive experience with our practical knowledge of estate planning, asset protection techniques, tax law and business documents. The skilled attorneys at our firm counsel clients in a broad range of estate planning, asset protection, wealth transfer, probate, taxation and business transactional matters, including those related to the following practice areas:

* Estate planning and probate
* Asset protection
* MediCal - Nursing Home Planning
* Tax
* Business law services focused on helping businesses start, grow, and succeed

We are devoted to creating customized legal solutions to protect our clients' assets. Our skilled attorneys and staff bring a solution-based approach to our practice, always working closely with our clients and their other advisors to examine their complete financial picture. We look forward to forming long-term relationships with our clients and do our best to provide them with an honest look at their situations. We make extra efforts to keep our clients informed of all their asset protection options.

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At Weissler Law Group, our focus is on preserving the hard earned assets of our clients. We believe that our Clients should be able to use their assets in a way that has the most benefit for them and for their families (or those others that they choose to benefit).

Our goal is to supply the means for our clients to provide the maximum benefit and least harm to the next generation of their families.

In addition to planning, we provide skilled legal counsel in probate matters. The passing of a loved one is one of the most emotionally trying times you anyone ever encounters. The last thing needed during such difficult times is a glut of legal problems. We navigate the probate process efficiently for our clients, from admitting the will through to distribution.

Estate Planning and Effective Wealth Transmission ==================================

Our estate planning practice is built upon providing clients with an efficient way to use and transfer their wealth. Effective wealth transmission requires lifetime action, not merely a death-time escape chute. We do not simply draft documents and have you sign them. We work with you to make sure you understand the vehicles we use to hold and move your estate.

We work diligently to understand the structure of your family. Understanding family relationships and character helps us provide you with an effective and family protective plan. If you have a blended family, we will help you craft a clear plan for how children from a prior relationship will factor into the transmission of your estate.

We provided our clients with a wide range of estate planning services and tools including:

* Wills
* Revocable trusts
* Health care powers of attorney
* Financial powers of attorney
* Childcare powers of attorney
* Family limited partnerships
* Domestic asset protection trusts
* Lifetime spousal gift 6rusts
* Inheritor's trusts
* ICP & line protection trusts
* Charitable remainder trusts/Charitable lead trusts
* Retirement plan distribution control trusts
* Dynasty trusts
* Generation skipping trusts
* Special needs trusts
* Insurance trusts
* Special purpose trusts
* Offshore opportunity and protection trusts
* Controlled opportunity shifting
* Nursing home planning

California Probate ============================

In addition to planning, we provide skilled legal counsel in probate matters. The passing of a loved one is one of the most emotionally trying times anyone can encounter. Endeavoring to navigate the California probate system during this emotional time can lead to misunderstandings among family members. Our firm goes to great lengths to avoid this, handling all aspects of the administration process from the appointment of the executor through the disbursement of assets.

The last thing anyone needs during emotionally difficult times is a glut of legal problems. We respectfully and smoothly guide our clients and their families through the probate process. Our firm's approach actively seeks to avoid unnecessary conflict while also seeking to efficiently bring the administration through the probate process, from admitting the will through to final distribution.

We have extensive experience administering estates both large and small, and are experienced in dealing with non-U.S. wills including those from Mexico. We also have the litigation experience necessary to protect your interests in court, should that become necessary.

Tax Planning ==================================

Tax planning is an integral part of helping people build and preserve wealth. Facing a government hungry to collect extra tax dollars from families and businesses, tax planning has become an important part of keeping from become a victim. At Weissler Law Group in San Diego, California, we are very conscious of the enormous effect that taxes have on peopleâs lives.

Federal income taxes, State income and property taxes international and transnational taxes have a profound effect on all business and business owners, on investment decisions and on intergenerational wealth transfer planning. Proper tax planning can sometimes turn a marginal business venture or contract into a profitable one. Failure to properly plan for the transfer or sale of business or for the transfer of family assets between parents, children or grandchildren can be financially devastating.

Our experienced attorneys examine each Client's situation, explain to them available options and create the necessary structures and documents needed to minimize burdensome taxes. We offer tax-sensitive business transaction, business sale, and estate planning counsel that focuses on how to avoid booby traps and make a deal more profitable for you. We handle a broad variety of tax issues for our clients, including those related to:

* Income tax optimization / tax reduction planning for individuals and businesses
* Wealth transfer - estate and gift tax planning
* Planning for non-U.S. nationals with U.S. Income & Assets
* Tax defense - tax litigation (California & Federal Appeals and Tax Court Representation)

Tax Defense and Litigation

Our firm represents and defends individuals and businesses in administrative appeals of audit findings before the IRS, the California Franchise Tax Board, and the California State Board of Equalization . We are also prepared to protect our tax clients in the Federal District Court, the U.S, Tax Court and the California Superior Court.

Safeguarding Your Estate

At Weissler Law Group, we appreciate the fact that estate taxes may bear a significant impact on your ability to transfer your assets to your family, friends and charity. For successful individuals estate taxes are an obstacle to holding on to wealth and passing it between generations. enormous barrier blocking wealth transfer. Without planning foreign nationals with U.S. assets worth over one hundred thousand dollars can lose close to half of those assets to estate tax.

The devastating effect of the estate and gift tax not only touches non-U.S. persons, but can also strike U.S. citizens. Without insight into the choices available, families can lose their business, be forced to sell memory laden assets to pay taxes and loose the rewards of a lifetime good fortune and hard work. We are experienced in dealing with the challenging tax issues that block individuals from preserving their wealth and achieving their goals.

Asset Protection =============================

You have worked hard to build your estate and accumulate assets. At Weissler Law Group we realize the importance of your efforts and provide clients with effective tools for asset protection. It seems that predators are more and more frequently using the legal system to extort money from blameless families and businesses.

Too often, people in dire financial straits look to victimize others to replenish their bank accounts. Personal injury claims always go up when times are hard. During tough times too many ordinary business disagreements escalate and become business threatening lawsuits. In these hard economic times, asset protection has added importance.

Protection against Catastrophes and Business Failures

Many people set up a business entity to insulate them from liability but fail to make sure it is managed properly, which leaves their non-business assets at risk. Professional practices often thoughtlessly leave receivables vulnerable to future claims within the practice. Substantial investment account owners often ignore how discoverable and tempting their assets are to financial predators and frauds.

We will closely examine your financial picture, identifying sources of liability and crafting a plan to safeguard your assets. We can also examine and modify your estate plan to protect your assets, after your passing, from your children's possible excesses or divorces. We focus on all three levels of asset protection which include:

* Asset & risk insulation
* Domestic asset protection
* Offshore asset protection

Protecting your assets may require putting certain assets into entities to give you the highest likelihood of maintaining control in the face of possible claims against you. You have worked hard to earn your assets and owe it to yourself to work with an experienced attorney to safeguard them. Contact us today to discuss your situation with an experienced attorney.

Protecting Your Assets With Effective Nursing Home Planning ================================

We utilize a number of tools to minimize the amount of assets you must expend when a family member requires nursing home or in-home medical care, while still ensuring your relative receives all needed care. These tools include:

* Guided permissible transfers
* Specialized trusts
* Care contracts
* Medi-Cal Medicaid Grants
* Intra-family qualified annuity agreements
* Intra-family promissory note sale transaction contracts
* Special needs and supplemental needs trusts

New rules make it critical that planning begin as soon as possible. The earlier planning begins the more assets can be preserved to raise an ill spouse's care to a higher level, to protect a well spouse and to preserve a parent's financial legacy. We focus on minimizing the financial hardships that a healthy spouse or family suffers when an ill spouse needs care. Nursing home planning can allow for assets to be preserved which would otherwise need to be used to pay nursing home costs.

Businesses Start-Up ==========================

Far too many business owners make the mistake of not coupling their hard work and often innovative business ideas with sound legal strategy. Failure to reinforce a business with a solid legal framework can make the difference between profitability and bankruptcy, between survival and collapse. At Weissler Law Group, we believe that skilled legal counsel not only helps businesses survive but also often make much more money them than it costs. We work closely with business owners, focusing on everything from business formation, entity maintenance, to sale or dissolution. We handle a broad range of issues for our business clients, focusing our practice primarily on the following:

* Buy-sell agreements
* Employment contracts
* Business incorporation
* Business succession planning
* Mergers
* Non-exploitation agreements
* Dissolution and windup

Selecting the right structure for your business is important for a number of reasons, including asset protection and taxation. Laying the proper groundwork between co-owners can mean the difference between the easy resolution of future disputes and business destroying arguments. We handle all aspects of start-up for our clients including:

* Drafting and filing of secretary of state documents, including articles of incorporation and annual registrations
* Obtaining federal employer identification numbers (EIN)
* Serving as your registered agent (RA)
* Drafting of internal documents such as shareholder and option agreements
* Buy-sell and business sale agreements
* Drafting and reviewing other business documents such as sales contracts and leases

Contract Law =============================

One of the most common pitfalls for a business owner is a failure to follow laws pertaining to contracts. You have worked too hard to build your business to allow contract problems to derail your progress. We have the experience necessary to make sure your contracts are legal and up to date, insulating your business from penalties and legal actions.

I've tried over the years to avoid the pitfalls of bad lawyers. I try to be humble, polite and hard working. I never lie to a client. I strive for excellent results for a fair price. I never steal from my clients. A good nightâs sleep is worth far more than ill-gotten gains.

The highest duty of every lawyer is loyalty to his client. A good lawyer returns calls from his clients and works on his cases to move them along as quickly as the court allows.

I show clients what they canât do for themselves. I have 40 years of experience winning cases and studying the law. A good reputation builds good referrals from my clients.

Most lawyers are incredibly greedy. There are many who lose their licenses to practice law every month because theyâve cheated and stolen from their clients. They have no moral values or pride in their work. Each client is a new victim of their insatiable drive to become wealthy. They are never trusted by the Court, other lawyers or even by their own clients.

A clientâs trust is achieved by telling the truth, being honest and building a reputation for hard work and successful results. My clients trust me because Iâve been treating clients properly and fairly for forty years. Even if it demands that I tell them the bad news on their case. I often do charity work for clients who cannot pay me a fee. I believe that a lawyerâs time and knowledge are his stock and trade. They have nothing else to sell. A humble, polite, hard working attorney is an attorney that you can trust. I never talk down to my clients. They can understand the law if it is clearly explained to them.

I make my clients my helpers in winning their cases. If they understand the problems and the options they can see the correct path to success.

I hire honest experts in accounting, business, medicine and law. Honest clients and honest experts build character in an honest attorney. Lawyers that deal with dishonest people soon become dishonest themselves.

California Attorney since 1977. Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and various Federal District Courts. Notary Public.

Certified legal specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization.

Partner in KIMBALL, TIREY & ST. JOHN, specializing in trust and probate matters and probate litigation. Additional experience in elder law and financial abuse issues, long term care planning, and Special Needs Trusts for persons receiving government assistance. Significant experience with nonprofit organizations and small businesses, including succession planning.

Susan Alexander Myers holds a J.D., M.P.A. and an advanced law degree in Taxation (LL.M). She has practiced law in Texas and California for 10 years. Susan is a passionate advocate for seniors and their families and dedicates her practice to issues that arise from the aging process, including plannning for long-term care, Medi-Cal planning, estate planning, nursing home issues, public benefits, and conservatorships. Susan is also an experienced estate and trust litigator. When you have a legal problem, choose an attorney who will represent you with Compassion, Care and Commitment.

Contact the Law Offices of Deborah Barron for a Free Initial Consultation. A full service Law firm providing prompt professional service to businesses and individuals at the lowest cost to the client.

For plaintiff personal injury cases, sexual harassment and nursing home abuse, there is no fee until we recover. Formerly with the San Francisco Law Offices of Melvin Belli, the "King of Torts."

Served with a summons and complaint? We may be able to obtain insurance coverage for you or file a cross-complaint for indemnity or contribution.

From business start-ups, mergers and acquisitions to complex litigation, our goal is to reduce the client's stress and to resolve disputes as quickly and economically as possible. We have provided quality service in a variety of legal areas throughout Northern and Central California from Eureka to Santa Barbara. Whether you face a jury trial, arbitration or administrative proceeding, our team of highly-skilled attorneys will be beside you every step of the way. We also provide full service Winery and Vineyard Law, Hospitality Industry, Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law.

San Francisco Office opens Feb. 1, 2009

For over ten years, I have practiced law exclusively in the field of estate planning, probate and trusts. I prepare and administer highly tailored and customized estate plans for individuals and couples with estates in excess of $2,000,000.

I am one of 817 Certified Specialists in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization, and that is out of over 221,000 lawyers in California.

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