Ladera Ranch Lawyers

Former Electrical Engineer with over 5 years of circuit design experience of semiconductor integrated circuits. In-house counsel experience at software companies licensing CAD tools for the design of semiconductor integrated circuits. Now having over 10 years of patent application preparation and prosecution at the US Patent and Trademark Office. Now having over 10 years of trademark application preparation and prosecution at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Family Law, Divorce and Divorce Mediation Attorney representing clients in Irvine, Costa Mesa and surrounding areas.

Jon Mason is one of the brightest stars in the field of Orange County Family Law. Jon has dedicated his life to education and learning, obtaining an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and a Master’s Degree from the University of Florida’s lauded College of Journalism and Communications, focusing his studies on the complex discipline of media law. After finishing his Master’s Degree, Jon took his considerable writing and communication skills to a San Diego advertising and marketing firm and continued his study of law at Chapman University Fowler School of Law in Orange County, California. During...

Shari Elizabeth Nokes is a founding partner of Nokes & Nokes, a Southern California Law Firm, and has 25 years of experience representing plaintiffs in personal injury cases including product liability, mass tort litigation involving breast implants, auto accidents, premises liability suits, and assault actions. She has also represented financial institutions in suits involving major loans and real property. Ms. Nokes graduated with honors from the University of California at Davis in 1982 and received her J.D. from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific in 1985. She is a former member of the Board...

Brian P. Ballo has been a real estate attorney for 28 years in Orange and San Diego counties. Currently, his practice is focused on representing homeowners in lawsuits against lenders seeking to foreclose, and negotiating loan modifications, forbearance agreements, short sale transaction approvals, and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure. Brian is skilled in articulating cause of actions against lenders who have violated laws at the time of loan origination and closing, as well as during the foreclosure, loan modification and short sale processes. He has successfully obtained Temporary Restraining...

My private practice focuses exclusively on criminal defense. I believe in providing my clients with excellent service, protecting their freedom and their rights. Before opening Bethune Law Corporation, I worked as a public defender both in Orange County and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to that I worked as a prosecutor both in Orange County and Cambridge Massachusetts. My practice of law has only ever been in the criminal law arena and I enjoy it tremendously.