Practice Areas

Huerta Mediation  provides alternative dispute resolution services to resolve a wide variety of business, employment, insurance, intellectual property and real estate law disputes.  Attorney Lawrence A. Huerta’s thirty-five years of experience in employment business, real estate, and securities litigation provides a sound legal foundation for understanding the nature of your clients’ legal disputes, and prepares him to work in partnership with you to help your client achieve superior results. Huerta Mediation has assisted clients with the following kinds of disputes:

Employment

Lawyer Lawrence Huerta was appointed mediator in the notable national class action lawsuit, Martens v. Smith Barney , administered through Duke University. He has mediated more than 25 cases in this class action across the country, involving sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in the workplace.

Huerta Mediation has assisted both businesses and employees in resolving over 500 workplace disputes through mediation or arbitration. Mediation can be a particularly effective solution when the problem is communication and trust needs to be built or restored in order for a working relationship
to continue.

• Discrimination (EEOC cases) for age, race, gender
• Private Attorney General Act (PAGA)
• Sexual harassment
• Trade secret
• Wage and Hour
• Wrongful termination

Real Estate

Mr. Huerta has over thirty years of Real Estate Litigation experience, and obtained a California Real Estate Broker's License in further development of his Real Estate Mediation Practice.

• Resolution of boundary disputes
• Resolution of title disputes
• Resolution of responsibilities or warranty
  issues associated with home sales or
  home construction
• Specific performance
• Breach of contract regarding condition of
  property resulting in repairs or monetary compensation
• Resolution of adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims
• Previously Licensed California Real Estate Broker

Securities

Huerta Mediation recently assisted a family in resolving a title dispute over a property family members had jointly inherited. Through mediation, the family was able to resolve the title dispute, execute a quitclaim deed, and salvage the equity in their home (which would otherwise have been used to litigate). This mediation was done in English and Spanish. Another recent mediation involved a boundary dispute, adverse possession, prescriptive easement and quiet title claims where the parties agreed to new boundaries, and to execute a statement of non-opposition to the proposed subdivision of one lot into four lots. Why Mediation?

Mediation can help clients who have sustained losses arising out of a breach of professional responsibility. They are seeking to recoup some of their losses attributed to a breach of duty and are seeking justice and closure so they can move on with their life after a substantial loss. Claimants include individuals, corporations, and charitable trusts, among others.

• Suitability
• Churning
• Undue concentration
• Trading outside risk profile
• Negligent misrepresentation
• Securities fraud

• Partnership disputes
• Business practice disputes including non-compete agreements and trade secret disputes
• Intellectual Property
• Unfair Competition
• Unfair Trade Practices

Tort and Personal Injury

• Civil Rights
• Defamation and Slander
• Major Personal Injury
• Wrongful Death

Insurance 

• California Department of Insurance Mediation Panel
• Property casualty insurance claims, including earthquake, fire and flood insurance claims
• Premises liability claims
• Title insurance claims
   

Mediation and arbitration services can be provided in English, or Spanish by prior arrangement. R. Marina Durazo, our contract Spanish translator, is a native Spanish speaker who has over twelve years of experience working as a civil and real estate litigation secretary, and additional experience as a Mediation Coordinator. Ms. Durazo has served as a translator in several business, contract, tort, and real estate mediations which resulted in settlement.

Contact a business and real estate law mediator at Huerta Mediation to discuss the specifics of your case and your client’s needs. Huerta Mediation helps clients find interest-based resolutions to legal disputes throughout San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, and Imperial counties, including the cities of San Diego, El Cajon, Chula Vista, Irvine, Oceanside, Carlsbad, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Vista, Fullerton, and Riverside. HUERTA MEDIATION also provides mediation services throughout California, through video conferencing and around the nation.

Huerta Mediation
600 West Broadway, Suite 900
San Diego, CA 92101
Telephone: 619-236-7944 | Fax: 619-236-7986
Email: Contact Us