About
Steven I. Hochfelsen is a litigation lawyer. A member of the American and the Orange County Bar Associations seeing that 1986, Mr. Hochfelsen has dealt with business litigation of each description through trial. In current years, Mr. Hochfelsen has represented principal business landlords, developers, national producers and distributors of client items, coverage companies and defense contractors in various kingdom and federal courtroom instances. His recent cases involve real property rent disputes, production litigation, financial disaster, fashionable business contracts, unfair competition and trade secrets and techniques, coverage and bad faith problems and commercial fraud claims.
Mr. Hochfelsen has huge revel in in Federal and state court illustration of clients in reference to breach of agreement and fraud claims, landlord-tenant disputes and product disorder claims. He has successfully defended building materials producers, importers and vendors towards claims introduced with the aid of contractors alleging that the materials had been fallacious for their meant motive and seeking to establish legal responsibility for extra than $650,000 in claims for challenge reconstruction. Judgment turned into entered in desire of the defendant manufacturers, importers and vendors and towards the plaintiff contractors. He effectively prosecuted a case on behalf of a industrial building proprietor regarding extra than $2 million in damages as the end result of defective glass used within the creation of an all-glass constructing.
Mr. Hochfelsen turned into a member of the trial group that defended a $900 million class motion lawsuit introduced towards a major lifestyles insurance organization and its parent corporation with recognize to alleged funding/coverage contracts bought through the coverage organization. The majority of the magnificence claims were brushed off at trial, in the long run ensuing in a good agreement. In addition, Mr. Hochfelsen effectively defended a main Orange County real estate conserving employer towards settlement claims and mechanic s liens filed because of construction disputes in reference to a shopping center maintenance. He is also certainly one of a very few attorneys in California who've been able to reap a precis judgment in opposition to an insurer on the ground that the insurer acted in terrible faith when it refused to defend its customer in litigation.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Construction Law
- Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation
- International Law
- Human Rights, Imports & Exports
Costs
Certificates
Languages
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner - Complex Litigation
Hochfelsen & Kani, LLP
2009 - Litigation Lawyer
Law Offices of Steven I Hochfelsen
1995 - Partner
Giles & Burkhalter
1992 - Lawyer
Bryan Cave
1989 - Lawyer
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
1986
Educations
Graduation year: 1983
Graduation year: 1976
