We are a family-owned, General Civil and Trial Practice located in Concord, California. Over our law firm's forty years, three generations of the Hooy family have helped good people solve problems they cannot solve themselves. Now, father and son help our clients-individuals and small businesses-with personal, business and litigated matters.
The primary areas in which we practice include Trusts and Estates (preparation and litigation), Corporate Law, Real Estate Law, Business Law, Employment Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Retaliation, Wrongful Termination, and Personal Injury (including products liability and medical malpractice).While the bulk of our engagements have been handled in the greater Bay Area, we will travel as far as reasonable and necessary to serve our clients.
We are credentialed to handle matters in all state and federal courts (except the Southern District) in California. If you have a legal question or concern, contact us. If you would like to speak to an attorney now, please call us at (925) 798-0426.
The primary areas in which we practice include Trusts and Estates (preparation and litigation), Corporate Law, Real Estate Law, Business Law, Employment Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Retaliation, Wrongful Termination, and Personal Injury (including products liability and medical malpractice).While the bulk of our engagements have been handled in the greater Bay Area, we will travel as far as reasonable and necessary to serve our clients.
We are credentialed to handle matters in all state and federal courts (except the Southern District) in California. If you have a legal question or concern, contact us. If you would like to speak to an attorney now, please call us at (925) 798-0426.
Services
We handle a wide array of real estate issues for our business and individual clients.
In connection with real estate purchases or sales, we review their draft agreements and create custom instruments when necessary to meet the needs of each transaction.
We recognize that the purchase of a house is likely the largest purchase most people make in their lifetimes, so we strive to assure while also pointing out the risks of the transaction.
Though the stakes involved in a business purchase or sale of real property is often just as high for our business clients, the pertinent legal issues can be very different (like due diligence, environmental contamination, and zoning), and so is the advice we give to our business clients.
In connection with real estate purchases or sales, we review their draft agreements and create custom instruments when necessary to meet the needs of each transaction.
We recognize that the purchase of a house is likely the largest purchase most people make in their lifetimes, so we strive to assure while also pointing out the risks of the transaction.
Though the stakes involved in a business purchase or sale of real property is often just as high for our business clients, the pertinent legal issues can be very different (like due diligence, environmental contamination, and zoning), and so is the advice we give to our business clients.
If an individual can pass more than five million dollars ($5,000,000) without paying any federal estate taxes, why do I need an estate plan?
We have heard this question over and over.
Write your desires, or the law will do it for you.
If you do not properly prepare a testamentary instrument like a will or trust, the law has already dictated who will receive your assets and property.
Sometimes the law matches what you want, but many times it does not.
Under California's default estate plan, your estranged uncle stands in line before your close nephew, your rich son shares the same as your disabled daughter, and your grandchildren will receive their inheritances without any strings attached upon their 18th birthday.
We have heard this question over and over.
Write your desires, or the law will do it for you.
If you do not properly prepare a testamentary instrument like a will or trust, the law has already dictated who will receive your assets and property.
Sometimes the law matches what you want, but many times it does not.
Under California's default estate plan, your estranged uncle stands in line before your close nephew, your rich son shares the same as your disabled daughter, and your grandchildren will receive their inheritances without any strings attached upon their 18th birthday.
We offer a great variety of services to our business clients.
We form, maintain and terminate corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships.
We happily review the work of others, and fill in any legal gaps.
We are a great source for help with updating employee policy manuals, and employee relations.
The law has changed a great deal in the past year.
As a business owner, can you confidently say that the materials you give to your employees are legally correct and sufficient in addressing sick leave, overtime pay, and social media?
We form, maintain and terminate corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships.
We happily review the work of others, and fill in any legal gaps.
We are a great source for help with updating employee policy manuals, and employee relations.
The law has changed a great deal in the past year.
As a business owner, can you confidently say that the materials you give to your employees are legally correct and sufficient in addressing sick leave, overtime pay, and social media?
Contracts are merely promises made.
They can be verbal or written.
Some contracts must be in writing to be enforceable.
We help our clients evaluate agreements they bring to us for review.
We also prepare agreements when necessary.
For example, in connection with the purchase or sale of a business, we have prepared purchase and sale agreements (the contract that states the promises each side gives the other in the transaction), promissory notes (the promise to pay), deeds of trust (to create a lien on real property to secure timely payment), and guaranties (that may be a promise by another to perform if the buyer does not).
They can be verbal or written.
Some contracts must be in writing to be enforceable.
We help our clients evaluate agreements they bring to us for review.
We also prepare agreements when necessary.
For example, in connection with the purchase or sale of a business, we have prepared purchase and sale agreements (the contract that states the promises each side gives the other in the transaction), promissory notes (the promise to pay), deeds of trust (to create a lien on real property to secure timely payment), and guaranties (that may be a promise by another to perform if the buyer does not).
We fight insurance companies for full and fair compensation for our clients who were injured by the fault of another.
Most claims we handle arise from motorcycle and car collisions.
Increasingly, our job is to sue the driver of the vehicle that injured our client and then pursue an underinsured-motorist claim against our client's own insurer for the balance.
In a recent case, we secured for our client the policy limits available under the auto policy of the driver who injured him.
Then, we litigated an underinsured motorist claim against our client's own insurer, and produced a very favorable result for our client.
Most claims we handle arise from motorcycle and car collisions.
Increasingly, our job is to sue the driver of the vehicle that injured our client and then pursue an underinsured-motorist claim against our client's own insurer for the balance.
In a recent case, we secured for our client the policy limits available under the auto policy of the driver who injured him.
Then, we litigated an underinsured motorist claim against our client's own insurer, and produced a very favorable result for our client.
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