The firm's litigation lawyers are highly regarded in state and federal courts, on both trial and appellate levels. In all litigation matters, Pahl & McCay’s attorneys maintain a close working relationship with each client in order to ensure that specific legal strategies are consistent with each client's particular business and personal objectives. Pahl & McCay’s attorneys are particularly sensitive to the financial impact litigation can have on clients and make every effort to formulate litigation strategies that are suitable to each client’s unique financial condition.
Pahl & McCay’s litigators handle a variety of matters at all court levels and administrative agencies. The firm provides its clients substantial litigation experience in a wide variety of commercial disputes involving contract enforcement, real estate transactions and development, partnership and corporate governance, landlord-tenant relations and banking. The firm is also well-versed in the developing trends of liability arising out of wage and hour law, discrimination in employment, corporate officer liability, secured transactions, rent control, and business-related torts such as unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, and invasion of privacy.
Pahl & McCay handles large and complex litigation, including defense claims involving dozens of plaintiffs in a single forum. In addition, several of its litigators are engaged as appellate counsel in federal and state court matters. In its appellate practice, Pahl & McCay frequently is called upon to represent a client after a trial matter has been handled by separate counsel in addition to having been retained to write amicus briefs to the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.
The firm’s attorneys’ litigation experience extends into the administrative law arena. There are few businesses that are not impacted in some way by the enforcement of state and federal regulations. Commonly, these regulations are enforced by state or federal administrative agencies. The administrative enforcement arena is fraught with complex and often confusing law and procedures, not the least of which are administrative hearings in which the government agency that convenes the hearing employs both the prosecutor and the judge.
Pahl & McCay has provided counsel to its clients in responding to a wide variety of administrative actions. Such administrative actions include: wage claims before the California Labor Commissioner and the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of Labor; employment and housing discrimination claims before the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission; and rent control claims before any of a number of rent-controlled municipalities in California. In addition, Pahl & McCay offers experienced counsel in dealing with the administrative agencies charged with monitoring labor-management relations, unemployment insurance, occupational licensing, workers' compensation, and federal contracting. Pahl & McCay’s attorneys are well-equipped to counsel clients in understanding the applicable regulations, negotiating with administrative agencies, participating in administrative hearings and appealing administrative decisions to the appropriate court.