Baydaline & Jacobsen's business formation, operations and transactions
practice emphasizes the responsive, cost effective provision of
counsel and services keyed to our clients' rapidly changing circumstances
and opportunities. We assist our business clients with the formation
of new entities and the legal aspects of their subsequent operation.
In addition to assisting our clients with entity creation and
ongoing operations, we provide guidance with respect to their
day-to-day affairs, such as the review and preparation of contracts.
In doing so, we often draw on Baydaline & Jacobsen's other practice
areas in order to ensure that our clients receive the broadest
possible assistance in meeting their needs. We pride ourselves
on our responsiveness and prompt availability to provide ready
counsel to our clients when and as challenges and opportunities
arise.
The attorneys at Baydaline & Jacobsen have broad experience in
the representation of community associations. The firm is one
of Northern California and Nevada's leading law firms in this
unique and highly-specialized field of law. We provide a wide
range of services to our community association clients, including
the revision and enforcement of the declarations of covenants,
conditions and restrictions applicable to their communities.
We provide sound legal guidance to the volunteer boards of directors
charged with managing the associations.
We have broad experience in the interpretation of community
association governing documents and provide not just legal guidance,
but also practical advice with respect to the interpretation
and implementation of these documents. Where necessary, we prepare
understandable, workable amendments to governing documents.
Our attorneys have prepared complete restatements of governing
documents where the age of the documents or the changing conditions
of the communities they govern make them obsolete. Our services
also include the review, revision and preparation of contracts
and the analysis and resolution of real estate issues as they
affect our community association clients.
We emphasize the practical, cost effective approach to meeting
the legal challenges faced by community associations in recognition
of the fact that most associations operate on very limited,
tight budgets. We encourage positive, non-confrontational interactions
between our community association clients and their members
in order to resolve disputes in the most efficient, least disruptive
manner. However, we serve as strong advocates for our clients
and have substantial experience in the enforcement of community
association governing documents through alternative dispute
resolution or litigation where other means fail.
Baydaline & Jacobsen's estate planning and probate
practice focuses on preserving our clients' estates by minimizing,
to the extent possible, any federal estate tax and administration
costs of estate distribution. We offer a board range of estate
planning techniques from sophisticated trust planning to survivorship
and beneficiary designation, depending upon the unique needs
of our individual clients.
Our estate planning section also handles the probate administration
of decedents' estates, and the controversies which may aries
during the court process, court administration of family trust
issues, and the creation and administration of special needs
trusts. In addition, we represent clients in conservatorship
and guardianship issues.
When family disputes do arise requiring litigation of complex
probate issues or trust administration and accounting issues,
we provide representation to both fiduciaries and beneficiaries.
With the goals in mind to obtain the best result possible
for our clients, we also provide mediation services when appropriate.
Baydaline & Jacobsen has a real estate law and development
practice group positioned to meet a broad range of real
estate needs. We have substantial experience in assisting
developers in the creation of residential and commercial
developments, including condominiums, planned developments,
master planned communities and resort developments. Our
representation is comprehensive, from the preliminary planning
stages of a potential development through the process of
creating appropriate governing documents which comply with
the local jurisdiction's conditions of approval. In addition,
Baydaline & Jacobsen's attorneys have extensive experience
in preparing the legal documents necessary to obtain public
reports from the California Department of Real Estate. Our
extensive representation of community associations provides
us with the unique ability to assist our developer clients
with a smooth, friendly transition from developer to resident
control as the developer winds down activities within a
development.
We also assist both individuals and businesses with their
general real estate needs. Our real estate law and development
practice group provides counsel with respect to real estate
transactions, mechanic's liens, the creation and interpretation
of easements and the analysis and enforcement of covenants.
In keeping with Baydaline & Jacobsen's basic philosophy, the
real estate practice group is particularly sensitive to
the need to provide our clients with practical, cost effective
counsel and solutions to their real estate issues.
In close conjunction with and in support of our other
practice groups, Baydaline & Jacobsen's litigation practice
group provides efficient, practical representation of
our clients when the need to either defend or pursue litigation
arises. We emphasize providing our clients with realistic
counsel regarding the nature of their disputes, including
full and complete evaluations of the strengths and weaknesses
of their positions. We provide aggressive representation
and serve as forceful advocates for our clients. We also
understand and acknowledge that each client has different
needs and expectations with respect to the resolution
of their conflicts. Our approach towards litigation emphasizes
the specific needs and approaches of each individual client.
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