FAMILY LAW

H. Nathan James (Nate) has been practicing law for 38 years and is certified as a specialist in family law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Nate has extensive experience in family law matters including:

• Pre- and post-marital agreements;
• High conflict custody cases;
• Visitation and move away matters;
• Complicated valuation, characterization and division of businesses and personal assets and high net worth cases;
• Post dissolution judgment issues;
• Same sex and domestic partnership divorces;
• Domestic violence, and most other aspects of family practice.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Some of Nate’s family law highlights include:

• Numerous successful custody and visitation outcomes for parents who wanted joint physical and legal custody or more time with a child;
• Numerous successful results in child support disputes;
• Hundreds of negotiated Marital Settlement Agreements;
• Successful outcomes in complex spousal support issues, including the earnings ability of a non-working spouse and the determination of marital standard of living. Both of these issues require the use of experts and are relevant to the issue of spousal support.
• Successful outcomes and resolutions for parties who were initially unable even to talk to each other.

PERSONAL INJURY LAW

GET COMPASSIONATE LEGAL REPRESENTATION AFTER A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

• Compassionate and Attentive Legal Counsel.

• Free initial case valuation.

• An experienced team to help you.

• 38 Years of experience.

• Accomplishments In Personal Injury

  • $2,200,000 jury verdict on behalf of motorist who had $40,000 in medical expenses and $50,000 in lost wages

  • Car accident: $2,000,000 settlement for brain injured client where client did not lose

    consciousness as a result of the impact.

  • $700,000 settlement, during trial, for passenger in cab hit by another vehicle.

  • Pedestrian accident: $1,250,000 settlement for woman struck by a vehicle.

  • Dog bite: $800,000 default judgment taken against owner of dog that bit face of minor child.

  • Premises Liability: $728,000 jury verdict against a landlord where client/tenant slipped and fell on mail left on the common entry stairs at the apartment building.

  • Motorcycle versus vehicle: $500,000 settlement on behalf of motorcyclist who was forced out of her lane into oncoming traffic. All injuries were soft tissue, i.e. no fractured bones or torn ligaments.

  • Millions of dollars obtained as compensation on behalf of many clients sustaining “soft tissue injuries” or invisible injuries, those that do not show up on an x-ray, CAT scan, or MRI scan and little damage to the vehicles and where the responsible party’s expert claim that the forces in the accident were similar to someone sneezing or plopping down in a chair.