Santa Margarita Lawyers

After more than 25 years litigating on the central coast, I became passionately focused on mediation and began making the transition to full-time mediator. After completing intensive training at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law (ranked the number one dispute resolution program by the 2016 U.S. News and World Report for the 11th consecutive year, ahead of Harvard University, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Ohio State), I began settling cases at a high rate privately and through the Court(s). You may be wondering what is different about me. I am told...

University of Notre Dame - Certified Grant Proposal Writer
Executive Producer - TRADE film by FFAM, Inc.
Executive Producer - "Tall Like the Tree" by Delaney Gibson
Professor, Oxnard College

MARK KOVINSKY is an experienced, AV rated transactional attorney in the entertainment and sports industries. He focuses most of his professional time on the representation of talent in the music business, including featured artists, record producers, songwriters, and executives. But the skill set that he has acquired during his career extends to a broad range of entertainment, employment, and intellectual property contracts in the entertainment and sports industries. Prior to establishing his own law firm in 2010, Mark practiced law with the Los Angeles entertainment law firm of Kleinberg Lopez Lange Cuddy & Klein, LLP and with the Los Angeles...

Chantal Trujillo, senior partner at Rodriguez & Associates, is a dedicated member of the firm’s trial team, recognized for her unwavering determination to pursue justice for every client she represents. Constantly striving to excel on behalf of the firm and her clients, Chantal possesses the natural ability to connect with others, understanding that in her line of work, trust and empathy are just as essential traits as tenacity and drive. With over a decade of experience in personal injury law, Chantal Trujillo represents individuals and families in some of Bakersfield’s most challenging and complex trial cases ranging from wrongful death to...

Bakersfield Criminal Defense Lawyer

Practicing since December 1980 (40 years). Founding member of California DUI Lawyers Association (CDLA) and Specialist Member of CDLA. founding member of DUI Defense Lawyers Association (DUIDLA). The only California lawyer to secure a unanimous decision (7 in favor, 0 opposed) in a DUI case in the California Supreme Court (People v. McNeal, (2009) 46 Cal.4th 1183, changing the law on breath testing.
I have successfully jury tried over 1,100 DUI trials, including Felonies and Misdemeanors. My success rate is better than 93%. Nobody can perform better for you than I can perform.
If you are serious about getting the best...

Former Deputy District Attorney in both Merced and Santa Barbara County. With close to 10 years of experience as a dedicated DA, I have now branched my experience into my own practice assisting people in defending their constitutional rights, and providing legal services in all other areas of the law.

Eric Smith received his bachelor’s degree from UCSD in 1995 and his law degree from Pepperdine University in 1997. Eric holds the Certified Financial Planner(TM) designation. He has been a securities dispute arbitrator for FINRA and taught retirement planning classes for Cal Lutheran’s MBA program. He is a member of the California Bar, the Ventura County Bar Association, and the Financial Planner’s Association of Ventura County. He is co-owner of Lifetime Planning, Inc., a financial planning firm in Camarillo. He resides in Ventura with his spouse, Jamie King, and their children, Kell and Leif.

Retired. Inactive status with State Bar of California effective 07/01/2021.

My career started as a trial lawyer for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel and I have spent more than 25 years in private practice resolving problems with the IRS and state tax agencies.

I graduated from Law School in 1974 and was admitted to practice before the California Supreme Court and the Federal District Court the same year. In 1980 I was admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. I have handled hundreds of Workers Compensation cases and Social Security Disability cases. At present I am limiting my practice to Social Security Disability appeals.