Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Administrative Hearings & Adjudication
• Administrative Investigations
• Administrative Law
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Arbitration
• Auto Dealer Fraud
• Banking & Finance Law
• Bankruptcy Law
• Bankruptcy Litigation
• Business & Commercial Law
• Business Organizations
• Business Successions
• Closely Held Businesses
• Collections
• Commercial Bankruptcy
• Commercial Leasing
• Commercial Real Estate
• Complex Litigation
• Condominiums & Cooperatives
• Construction Contracts
• Construction Law
• Construction Liens
• Consumer Bankruptcy
• Contracts
• Conveyancing
• Creditors' Rights
• Debt Discharge
• Debtor/Creditor
• Directors' & Officers' Liability
• Dissolution
• Eminent Domain
• Estate Administration
• Ethics
• Ethics & Professional Responsibility
• Federal Trial Practice
• Foreclosures
• Formation & Business Planning
• Franchising
• Garnishment
• Government Construction Contracts
• Housing & Construction Defects
• Joint Ventures
• Landlord/Tenant
• Lemon Law
• Lending & Secured Transactions
• Licensing
• Limited Liability Companies
• Litigation & Appeals
• Loan Workouts
• Mediation
• Mini-trials
• Mortgages & Foreclosures
• Partnerships
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Professional Responsibility
• Real Estate Law
• Reorganizations & Restructuring
• Residential Real Estate
• Secured Transactions
• State Trial Practice
• Title Insurance
• Toxic Mold
• Toxic Torts
• Transactions
• Trusts
• Wills
• Workouts

West Practice Categories

Administrative Law, Administrative Hearings & Adjudication, Administrative Investigations, Licensing, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Mediation, Mini-trials, Auto Dealer Fraud, Banking & Finance Law, Lending & Secured Transactions, Loan Workouts, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Bankruptcy, Consumer Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Debt Discharge, Foreclosures, Garnishment, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Workouts, Business & Commercial Law, Commercial Leasing, Contracts, Debtor/Creditor, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Lemon Law, Secured Transactions, Transactions, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, Collections, Eminent Domain, Construction Law, Construction Contracts, Construction Liens, Government Construction Contracts, Housing & Construction Defects, Trusts, Wills, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Ethics, Professional Responsibility, Title Insurance, Litigation & Appeals, Bankruptcy Litigation, Complex Litigation, Federal Trial Practice, State Trial Practice, Probate & Estate Administration, Estate Administration, Real Estate Law, Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Conveyancing, Landlord/Tenant, Residential Real Estate, Toxic Torts, Toxic Mold

Bar Admissions

• California, 1980
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1980
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1986
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1990
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1991
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1992
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1988

Certification/Specialties

• Bankruptcy Law, State Bar of California, 1994
• Mediator
• California Real Estate Broker

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Contra Costa County Bar Association (Member)
• Bankruptcy, Contra Costa Bar Association (Member)
• Contra Costa County, Mount Diablo Municipal Court, 1986 (Small Claims Judge Pro Tem)
• Alamed Superior Court, Contra Costa County Municipal Court (Arbitrator)
• Alameda County (Mediator, Private Mediator)
• Continuing Education of the Bar, 1979 - 1981 (Legal Research Assistant)

Honors and Awards

• Super Lawyers, 2005 - Present
• Bankruptcy Law Advisory Commission, Commissioner, 2003

Classes and Seminars

• Panelist, Alamada County ADR Program
• Panelist, Contra Costa County ADR Program
• Panelist, United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern Division Dispute Resolution Program
• Panelist, Consumer Bankruptcy: Chapter 7: Step-By-Step Procedures, National Business Institute
• Panelist, Consumer Bankruptcy: Tips from the Pros, National Business Institute

Education

• Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, California, 1980
  J.D.
• Sangamon State University, 1994
  T.A. Education
  Major: Computer Programing and Education
• Antioch College, Ohio, 1974
  B.A.
  Major: Economics

Published Works

• "Civil Litigation in the Shadow of Bankruptcy", Contra Costa Lawyer, June, 1993
• "The Real Estate Market and Bankruptcy," Discussion of the Real Estate Crisis and Bankruptcy, Bar Journal, November, 2007
• "Inside the Minds: Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Strategies", Aspatore Books, 2008

Address

540 Lennon Lane
Walnut Creek, CA 94598

Phones

(925) 946-1400

Faxes

(925) 932-6986

Emails

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Websites

http://www.davidsternberg-law.com