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Divorce
Divorce law will address how property is divided and who will pay spousal support when a married couple separates, while child custody law will help determine what is in the best interest of a child when parents separate. Family-related legal issues can also apply to non-married couples, same-sex couples, and other domestic partnerships in which a legal relationship is established.
Child Support
Family Law governs domestic issues. We provide legal services and advice regarding marriage, divorce, child support, child custody, domestic violence, and adoption. The specifics of the law will vary depending on the situation, but we work tirelessly to protect each individual’s rights within the context of family.
Child Custody and Visitation
Adoption
Guardianship
Spousal Support
Legal Separation

Criminal Defense
We successfully defend lawyers, as well as the firms in which they practice, ranging from sole practitioners to large law firms. The underlying legal problems involved in these cases include personal injury, commercial litigation, divorce and family law, patent litigation, real estate, tax, probate, bankruptcy, products liability, criminal law, and malicious prosecution.
Wrongful Death
Currently, Civil Code section 3333.2 limits the amount recoverable for noneconomic losses to $250,000. This includes compensation for pain, suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, disfigurement, and other nonpecuniary damage. Additionally, in a wrongful death case, the total amount that any heirs can recover is $250,000.
Fraud
Our Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation practice advises and counsels insurers for all aspects of claims handling, coverage disputes, subrogation, and contribution. Additionally, our Insurance Fraud and SIU practice assists insurers with investigation, analysis, and litigation of suspicious claims.
White Collar Crimes
McCormick Barstow’s attorneys have experience in governmental services, loan origination and due diligence, commercial development, white-collar crime analysis, and triage transactions. We represent clients in their business and title insurance efforts through foreclosures, quiet title actions, defalcation/real estate fraud, declaratory judgment actions, coverage opinions and disputes, eminent domain, lien enforcement and priority, ownership retention, and asset recovery, including—
Theft
Assault
Arson
Restraining Order
When matters cannot be solved outside of court, our Family Law attorneys will vigorously represent you in the litigation process.
Money Laundering
Representing companies in matters such as state and federal consumer finance laws, money-laundering, and payment card laws relating to credit, debit, gift, and virtual cards.

Business and Corporate Law

Corporate Law
The Business Formation, Mergers, and Acquisitions practice can assist in determining the business entity structure that meets your profit, liability, and tax expectations. We’ll help you implement that structure by drafting and customizing your bylaws, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, or partnership agreements.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Our lawyers often act as “outsourced general counsel” for technology and brand-oriented companies, frequently engaging in long-term planning and development of technology-oriented business models. McCormick Barstow counsels clients in transactions involving technology and intellectual property, including research & development projects, collaboration arrangements, licensing, and manufacturing, distribution, and strategic sourcing agreements. Our lawyers also have active counseling practices with respect to intellectual property portfolio strategies, intellectual property registration, licensing, and related areas. We assist clients in conducting diligence investigations and negotiating terms regarding IP ownership and licenses in connection with complex commercial agreements, mergers and acquisitions, financing, and other strategic transactions.
Business Formation
We have unparalleled experience in contract drafting and negotiation, both domestic and international, business formation, acquisition and governance, regulatory compliance, tax consolation, and providing assistance in all of the myriad of other areas related to running a complex agribusiness.
Business Disputes
The environment in which public entities function is always changing and litigation raises issues beyond a particular lawsuit. We appreciate the public trust bestowed on us and we have handled thousands of matters involving public entity liability. Everything from dangerous condition claims, to contract disputes, to employment matters, to constitutional actions. Because of that, our public agency clients, and the communities they represent, get superior representation and advice.
Business Transactions
By working closely with other practices within our firm, we can also assist professionals in all their personal and professional legal needs, such as estate planning, employment matters, financial matters, business transactions, and real estate transactions, to name a few.
Limited Liability Companies
Offering guidance on corporate governance and SEC requirements. Advising corporations, boards of directors, board committees, corporate officers, shareholders, limited liability companies, and others regarding best practices, composition, and procedures.
Construction Contracts
Attorneys who represent construction companies help clients manage construction contracts and to implement planning steps to avoid disputes.
Trade Secrets
Advice and counsel on day-to-day management issues, including hiring, discipline and termination decisions, reductions in force, restrictive covenants, trade secret protection, and compliance issues arising under Title VII, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the California Labor Code and Industrial Welfare Commission wage orders, and the federal and California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.
Intellectual Property
Unfair Competition

Workers Compensation
McCormick Barstow’s Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation Practice Group is widely recognized as among the most successful practices of its type in California, Nevada and Ohio. The practice provides a range of litigation and non-litigation services to insurers, risk financing entities, and other interested clients on local, state, national, and international matters. The Practice Group handles matters involving all types of insurance including casualty insurance (both first party and third party), errors and omissions insurance, professional liability insurance, EPLI insurance, Workers Compensation and Employer’s Liability insurance, D & O insurance, reinsurance, excess insurance, life, health and disability insurance (including ERISA claims), title insurance, cyber insurance, crop insurance, product recall insurance and many other types. The Practice Group also specializes in drafting of insurance agreements, memorandums of coverage and endorsement forms. Members of the Practice Group provide advice and opinions and in litigating declaratory relief, extra-contractual and inter-insurer actions. In doing so, members of the Practice Group regularly appear in state and federal trial and appellate courts on behalf of parties and amicus curiae. Many have handled a variety of complex coverage cases, including claims involving hundreds of millions of dollars, some of which involved thousands of parties.
Wrongful Termination
Defense of employers and management against individual and class claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, defamation, and wage and hour violations before state and federal courts.
Employment Discrimination
Employment Contract
Just about every job duty of an HR professional requires consideration of and navigation through complicated areas of law including those related to: hiring, firing, and discipline; employee benefits and payroll; negotiating executive employment agreements; drafting and maintaining company policies; leaves of absence; identifying and providing reasonable accommodations for an employee’s disability or medical condition; workplace safety; workplace privacy including computer use; BYOD issues and drug testing; protecting a company’s confidential information and trade secrets; and investigating and handling complaints or discrimination, harassment or retaliation. With their specialized knowledge and practical experience, the Labor and Employment practice attorneys lead HR professionals through challenging decisions that arise daily in managing a workforce. Our attorneys provide support and serve as an invaluable resource to HR professionals when it is necessary to take adverse action against an employee that carries the possibility of litigation.
Employment Litigation
Whether based in contract, land dispute, labor or employment issues, tort claims, misappropriation or other commercial litigation issues, our attorneys have significant expertise in bringing litigation matters to a favorable resolution.

Real Estate Litigation
Real estate law governs ownership and use of interests in real property, as well as the standards for conveying such interests and the financing and developing the property. Real estate can be developed or planned for residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational and conservation uses (among others). Many transactions involve leasing a wide range of right and interests in the real property.
Premises Liability
Our attorneys regularly handle a wide range of public entity matters ranging from premises liability to pension matters, and our attorneys are well-versed in providing representation in the context of both open- and closed-session board meetings.
Construction Litigation
Construction law involves any legal issue related to the construction of a building or other structure. Issues related to construction activities can arise under federal, state, or local laws. Federal statutes, such as workplace safety regulations and employment laws, can impose requirements on worksites and hiring practices. States may impose additional regulations on top of federal ones, which can range from safety and employment to environmental rules. City and county ordinances may impose additional restrictions on zoning and construction noise.
Real Estate Transactions
Since many different parties are often involved in a real estate transaction, title insurance can lead to some types of legal disputes. These can vary in nature depending on the transaction, but they often involve certain legal issues that are related to the title.
Eminent Domain
Litigation in the real estate area involves the representations of real estate owners, buyers, sellers, lessors, brokers, lenders, and developers in, among other things, contract disputes, mechanics lien and construction disputes, eminent domain proceedings, title disputes, loan service and foreclosure issues, and bankruptcy.
Easement
Land Use and Zoning
Our Land Use team’s veteran litigators know their way around a courtroom, working with our clients to achieve timely, cost-effective solutions to complex regulatory issues. Practiced in defending and prosecuting claims brought under the California Environmental Quality Act, the Subdivision Map Act, California Planning and Zoning Law, Local Planning and Zoning law, the Clean Air Act, and regional transportation laws, our attorneys are also proficient in environmental mitigation and remediation matters.
Property Damage
The attorneys at McCormick Barstow work closely with administrators, officials, and attorneys employed by local governments to resolve complex legal challenges. Whether the issue involves compliance with multifaceted state and federal regulation, public employee claims, or claims for injury or property damage from government operations, we can assist you. With decades of experience in this area of law, we have the knowledge to develop a strategic approach designed to help counties, municipalities, school districts, specialty districts, their employees, or elected officials resolve their concerns.

Personal Injury
Mr. Wainwright joined the Civil Litigation Practice Group of McCormick Barstow in 2003. His practice centers around the defense of claims of all types of negligence (i.e., professional and/or general negligence) resulting in claims of personal injury, with an emphasis of defending healthcare providers (e.g., physicians, hospitals, mid-levels, etc.), defending private and public entities and defending automobile drivers. Mr. Wainwright has taken and defended hundreds of depositions of every type of witness, from plaintiffs and defendants to retained medical expert and treating physicians, economists, life care planners, engineers and accident reconstructionists.
Medical Malpractice
On May 23, 2022, Governor Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill No. 35 (“AB-35”) which recasts several provisions of the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (“MICRA”) and represents important changes to the law as it concerns recovery in cases of medical professional negligence. Most notably, AB-35 brings with it changes to laws concerning attorney compensation and the amounts plaintiffs may receive under claims for medical malpractice suits. These changes and their effect on healthcare providers are discussed below.
Dog Bites
McCormick Barstow defends insurance carriers and its insureds, self-insured entities, liability group pools, public entities, school districts and businesses against all forms of negligence claims. McCormick Barstow was created as an insurance defense firm and the insurance defense practice remains an integral part of the firm’s practice today. Our attorneys have years of experience defending all types of personal injury and property damage actions arising from automobile accidents, trucking accidents, product liability claims, premises liability, dog bites, slip/trip and falls, agricultural and crop losses, habitability cases, assault and battery claims, drug/pharmaceutical injury claims, construction site accidents, construction defect claims, civil rights violations, police defense and police brutality, food safety cases, airplane accidents, environmental torts and toxic torts, EPLI and employment defense, insured wrongful termination cases and Directors and Officers policy claims, to name a few. We defend claims for personal injury and property damage, including catastrophic injury, brain damage, paralysis, loss of limb, death, loss of profit, loss of income and punitive damages.

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
Real estate is often the highest value asset owned by many businesses and families. Professional advice is therefore important to assure that the value of those assets are protected and enhanced. In addition, real estate is one of the most important assets in the estate plans of many individuals. It justifies careful and knowledgeable treatment in the estate planning process.
Wills
Trusts
The endeavor to protect wealth and pass it from generation to generation is increasingly a complex and multidimensional practice. The successful implementation of estate, trust, and business plans requires attorneys who have mastered a range of disciplines. McCormick Barstow’s Estate Planning and Administration of Trusts and Estates practice provides clients with the knowledge to succeed and the depth of experience necessary to implement all aspects of a client’s transaction.
Power of Attorney
Probate

Bankruptcy
Our Bankruptcy Litigation practice represents clients in all aspects of litigation in bankruptcy court. Our attorneys are experienced in prosecuting and defending the wide array of claims that can arise in the course of a case under the bankruptcy code. We have counseled clients in bankruptcy litigation for a variety of industries, including financial and professional services, real estate, healthcare, industrial, manufacturing, retail, technology, transportation and agriculture, among others.
Foreclosure
Tax Law
Our attorneys also advise clients regarding the insurance assets being transferred in corporate transactions, with tax planning in connection with insurance payments or recoveries, and with alternative underwriting programs, such as captive insurance entities.

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