Law Firm Overview

The Law Office of Jesse W. Jack is a comprehensive business and real estate firm offering the highest quality of legal services. Mr. Jesse W. Jack has been in private practice since 1964. Over 90 percent of our clients come through referrals from satisfied clients and other attorneys. We offer a vast amount of experience in complicated transactions, establishing businesses, advising established businesses on complex and difficult issues as well as in most areas of real estate, including the following:

Business

• Establishing new business entities.
• Advising clients on operating business entities.
• Assist clients in dealing with internal conflicts.
• Negotiating and drafting business agreements including succession planning and compensation packages for key personnel.
• Sales, purchases and mergers of businesses.
• Litigation in the areas of breach of contract, corporate and partnership litigation.
• Business disputes and dissolutions.
• Asset protection planning.

Real Estate

• Negotiate and draft leases for industrial, commercial and retail shopping centers.
• Negotiate and draft contracts for the sale and purchase of real estate including undeveloped land sold for future development, apartment complexes, office buildings, commercial properties, retail shopping centers and hotels.
• Litigation between landlords and tenants including unlawful detainer actions, breach of contract regarding the purchase and sale of real estate, litigation between adjoining property owners over easements and boundary disputes and litigation between co-owners of real estate.
• Commercial lease disputes.
• Foreclosures.

Areas of Practice

• Real Estate Transaction 20%
• Formation of Business Entities 20%
• Advising Business 20%
• Drafting Business Agreement 15%
• Trust and Estate Administration 5%
• Real Estate Litigation 10%
• Trust and Estate Litigation 5%
• Business Litigation 5%

Pro Bono Activities

• Board of Directors, Founting Director - Parkinsons

Representative Clients

• Alameda Office Center, LLC
• Bottomley Distributing Co., Inc.
• South County Medical Center LLC
• Safety Storage, Inc.

Representative Cases

• Chang v. Redding Bank of Commerce, 35 Cal. Rptr.2d (29 Call App. 4th 673 1995)

Ancillary Businesses

• Director - Oplink

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Commercial Leasing, Contracts, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Limited Liability Companies, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Housing & Construction Defects, Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA) -- Employer, Wrongful Termination -- Employer, Living Wills, Powers of Attorney and Appointment, Trusts, Wills, Complex Litigation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Real Estate Law, Commercial Real Estate, Conveyancing, Eminent Domain, Landlord/Tenant, Foreclosure & Alternatives