Ventura County Lawyers

Mr. Taketa has over 22 years experience successfully representing clients in business litigation, with a specialty in labor and employment matters in both federal and state courts. Mr. Taketa's current clients include Verizon and Delta Dental. Prior to founding Sullivan Taketa LLP, Mr. Taketa served as corporate litigation counsel in the GTE Legal Department, handling general corporate matters with an emphasis on defending management in employment and class action litigation as well as conducting internal legal compliance investigations and prosecuting theft-recovery actions. At GTE and Verizon, Mr. Taketa attained an impressive record in the successful defense of varied and novel...

Joseph Nakos has been an attorney in the State of California since 2012, focusing exclusively in Family Law. Mr. Nakos has represented Family Law clients in the State of California and has appeared at hearings and trials at courthouses located in Ventura, Los Angeles, and Kern counties. Many of his cases have been high dollar cases involving such issues as business evaluations, forensic accounting analysis, custody evaluations, complex financial tracing, complex property divisions, and psychological evaluations. And, Mr. Nakos also appreciates the needs of clients with less complicated cases.

Mr. Nakos’ approach to all of his cases starts with an in...

Mr. Van Etten has more than 20 years of experience representing and counseling employers in an array of industries, including financial services, automotive manufacturing, oil and gas, healthcare, and food and drug industries. He serves as counsel for employers in labor and employment investigations and in litigation and arbitration matters before state and federal courts and agencies. His practice areas include wage and hour class actions and single-plaintiff claims involving alleged wrongful termination, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, discrimination charges coming before the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), unfair labor practice claims coming before the National Labor Relations Board,...

Kathryn (Katie) Clunen is a partner at Clunen and Oakman Law, LLP in Thousand Oaks, CA. She is a family law attorney and mediator. Katie also has training in collaborative divorce. She helps clients with paternity actions, child support, child custody and visitation, spousal support, property division and post-judgment issues. In 2020, Katie was the president of the Ventura County Bar Association and remains active within the Association.

Management Concepts, Inc.  Consultant Instructor/Subject Matter Expert 2023-Present  Lectures on government contract law and policy, ethics and fiscal law for federal civilian agencies, DoD, and private sector audiences using student-centered methodologies  Navy General Counsel, Department of the Navy  Various Assignments 1985-2000, 2007-2023  Legal services in support of the Navy’s Global mission, primarily in the areas of procurement, grants, personnel law, government ethics, administrative law and fiscal law.   Defense Acquisition University Counsel, Professor of Contract Law 2000-2007  Provided instructional services on government contract law, fiscal law and ethics.  Delivered approximately 15 one and two-week classes per fiscal year.  Served as Counsel to University. Office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of...

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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...

Kent W. Keating is an attorney specializing in comprehensive estate planning and business transactional matters. He provides estate planning services including living trusts, irrevocable trusts, health care directives, power of attorneys and related documents. He also provides business services such as drafting contracts and agreements of all kinds as well as business succession services to protect family owned businesses for future generations. He takes great pride in providing quality services for his clients and working diligent with his clients to ensure they are protected from future liability or future family disputes with regard to their businesses or estate plans.

Janet Greathouse has dedicated her legal career to assisting individuals and businesses of all sizes in meeting their immigration needs. Whether representing a client in overcoming a visa application denial or a business in petitioning on behalf of a foreign worker, Ms. Greathouse strives to meet the highest professional standards. Ms. Greathouse has extensive experience in a wide range of visa matters, such as successfully assisting investors in obtaining E-2 and immigrant investor (EB-5) visas. In representing corporate clients, Ms. Greathouse assisted companies in obtaining nonimmigrant work related visas (H-1B, L-1 and TN), and employment based lawful...

Franchise Legal Support is a law firm dedicated to assisting residents in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas of Southern California with their franchise law and mediation matters. For 26 years, Attorney David Levaton has been a dedicated representative of the franchise community. Unlike most franchise lawyers, Mr. Levaton is a former owner and operator of a multi-unit franchise operation. Due to this experience from both the legal and business side of the operation, Mr. Levaton is committed to acting as a neutral to all aspects of franchising. He believes it is important to treat each case individually, in order...

David A. Esquibias is a lawyer who also has a post graduate Master of Laws in Taxation degree. Mr. Esquibias is one of few attorneys certified by the State Bar of California as a specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law. Mr. Esquibias has nearly 30 years of experience as a successful trust and estate trial litigator. Mr. Esquibias specializes in attacking or defending complex trust and estate administrations and accountings. Mr. Esquibias represents high net worth families, their trustees and executors.

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.