Now retired - formerly a Real Estate and business attorney with several companies owning real estate assets or having franchisees or customers with legal real estate needs, including CKE Restaurants, Inc. Johnson Controls, Inc, and other independent clients. Practical experience in the ownership and development of shopping centers, office buildings and residential subdivisions. I have also performed arbitration proceedings concerning construction disputes filed with the CA State Contractors License Board. .My specialties were: Transactional Real Estate Law, e.g., negotiation, review and preparation of various real estate acquisition/disposition documents, ranging from office, industrial, retail and ground leases, exchanges and purchase & sale agreements to broker contracts, construction documents, subordination agreements, estoppel certificates, CC&Rs, loan documents and other real estate related matters. With over 30 years of experience there are very few, if any, types of R.E. transactions that I didn't have the pleasure to worked on.