Cima Real Estate Lawyers

Mr. Khalfin is managing attorney of Vaksman Khalfin, PC and oversees its Business Law, Trusts and Estates, Real Estate and Civil Litigation matters. He has significant experience in developing legal strategy, counseling clients in practical solutions, and building and managing legal teams. Mr. Khalfin has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2013 and is a member of the San Mateo County Bar Association’s Estate Planning and Probate Panel. He received his Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law, holds a Bachelor of Arts form the University of California, Los Angeles, and attended the Cornell Law School...

Chris DeWys focuses on civil litigation dealing with commercial and residential real estate, business disputes, neighbor issues, land use, and landlord-tenant matters. Chris also handles Danfoura Law P.C.'s probate administration practice and litigation. Chris has been in civil litigation since 2008 and joined Danfoura Law P.C. in 2015 after four years of solo practice and two years at a boutique civil litigation firm in San Francisco. Chris is committed to active client engagement throughout the litigation process and ensuring that client goals are achieved both efficiently and with value. Chris moved to San Francisco in 2003 after growing up in...

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...

Ryan W. Young is a co-founder of the OC Trial Group and acts as one of the primary Trial attorneys. Mr. Young represents individual and corporate clients throughout the state of California. Mr. Young’s litigation career is rooted in his national law firm experience where he litigated on behalf of the 15th largest law firm in the country. He brings this “big law” experience to OC Trial Group to efficiently resolve matters for our clients. Areas of Practice Mr. Young focuses his practice on the representation of clients in trust administration, pre-litigation trust disputes, trust litigation, real estate, and...

Since 1976 our firm has handled Condominium Collection for both commercial owners' associations and homeowners' associations, represented insurance companies in collections of costs awarded in favor of their successfully representation at trial, defended American with Disability Act (ADA) cases, handled numerous Relief from the Automatic Stay matters in all of the Bankruptcy Courts throughout California as well as other Adversary or Creditor matters in Bankruptcy Court, handled numerous civil appeals in both State and Federal Court, represented a firm in a collection matter as a member of the Southern District of Indiana, tried numerous bench and jury trials in both...