Real Property/Construction Defect/Business/Commercial

REAL PROPERTY

Since the beginning of his career, Mr. Bases has been involved in serious real property matters. He has successfully represented owners, investors, builders, developers, contractors, businesses, brokers, buyers, sellers, synagogues, churches, commercial tenants, parties to escrows, and landlords in trials, arbitrations and mediations for over twenty five years.  Typical cases that he has handled over the years, both prosecuting and defending, include breach of contract, breach of lease, fraud, non-disclosure of material fact, specific performance, contractor negligence, construction defect litigation and architect/engineer design defect litigation, boundary line disputes, destruction of property including trees-timber, quiet title, broker fraud and negligence, investor, joint venture and partnership disputes, etc. He is a real estate investor, real estate litigator, construction defect litigator, experienced lease negotiator, and drafter of real property instruments including leases, grant deeds, promissory notes, deeds of trust, purchase agreements and construction contracts. He commonly provides legal advice to developers, construction firms, construction management firms, businesses, and individual investors on real property issues. He has successfully rehabilitated distressed real estate. His own real estate projects stretch from West Los Angeles to the beaches in central California to residential income properties in the San Joaquin Valley. Please contact Mr. Bases for a private consultation.

BUSINESS / COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

From small family businesses to established commercial businesses with annual sales in the tens of millions of dollars, Mr. Bases is called on regularly to provide legal advice in respect to contract disputes, insurance disputes, labor disputes, and corporate disputes. He has represented numerous businesses in litigation and pre-litigation matters. He endeavors to keep his clients out of court wherever practical, but has successfully prosecuted actions on behalf of clients through trial and appeal when necessary, practical, and in the best interests of the client. Please contact Mr. Bases for a private consultation.

End of life planning can provide peace of mind and financial stability for loved ones. We offer a variety of instruments to assist including trusts , wills, durable powers of attorney, and advanced health care directives. Please contact us for free consultations.

We evaluate each case on the basis of its merits. Where our clients have had their lives adversely affected by an accident or other circumstance resulting in serious personal injury or wrongful death, through the negligence or wrongful acts of others, we endeavor to make a positive difference in their lives. Your rights under our laws entitle you to make legal claims for financial compensation when such injury or wrongful death occurs.  Once we take your case, we strategically proceed as your advocate, to make legal claims for you, to fight for you, and to endeavor to obtain just financial compensation, which we hope will-- in turn-- bring to you a sense of balance.   

We have obtained significant financial recoveries in the following areas of personal injury and wrongful death law: elder abuse involving lack of supervision in an assisted-living facility resulting in debilitating injuries, vehicle negligence resulting in car-to-car accidents and car-to-pedestrian accidents involving grave personal injuries, and, in some cases, wrongful death, truck accident litigation resulting in extremely serious debilitating injuries and wrongful death, battery and intentional torts resulting in serious personal injuries.  We have recovered substantial sums for clients that suffered debilitating injuries including paralysis, brain injury, back injuries, and have recovered for family members in wrongful death actions, in high-stakes, extremely difficult liability proof-cases. We are experienced in working with excellent experts and have prosecuted cases successfully resulting in recoveries substantially beyond client expectations.

 Mr. Bases has been a professional mediator for over fifteen years and has conducted over 100 mediations. He participated on the Los Angeles Superior Court Alternative Dispute Resolution panel of mediators for more than 10 years. 

Mr. Bases has mediated complex real property, construction defect, and business litigation matters  involving some of the largest and most prestigious law firms, financial institutions, and insurance companies as well as some of the most prominent legal out-reach and pro-bono legal services institutions. 

He has received numerous awards and recognition from the Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court and the Chair of the Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee in appreciation for his years of service and contribution as a Los Angeles Superior Court neutral.

His article on mediation confidentiality, “The Grease that Oils the Machine of Mediation” (published: Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal on October 28, 2011) was cited by the California Law Review Commission and attached in its Staff Memorandum, Study K-402, April 7, 2014, Memorandum 2014-14, titled, “Relationship Between Mediation Confidentiality and Attorney Malpractice and Other Misconduct: Law in Other Jurisdictions”.

Mr. Bases has a competitive mediation fee schedule. Please contact our office to check availability, inquire about terms and to schedule a mediation.

Arielle Bases has over 15 years experience as an appellant lawyer with an emphasis on criminal appeals.  She has handled over 150 appeals throughout Southern California and has been published in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and the California Court of Appeal.