Practice Areas

Huerta & Associates 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 twenty five years of experience in business and real estate 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 & Associates Mediation has assisted clients with the following kinds of disputes:

Real Estate

Mr. Huerta has twenty five years of Real Estate Litigation experience, and recently obtained his 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.
• Licensed California Real Estate Broker

Securities

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

Employment

Huerta & Associates Mediation has assisted both businesses and employees in resolving over 300 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
• Sexual harassment
• Trade secret
• Wrongful termination

Business Litigation

• 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 eight years 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 & Associates Mediation to discuss the specifics of your case and your client’s needs. Huerta & Associates 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 & Associates Mediation also provide mediation services throughout California and around the nation.