Buchalter

Legal Services | California, USA
tel: 707 967 9656 | fax: 707 963 0771
1230 Pine Street | St. Helena | California | 94574 | USA

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Adam J. Bass

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Katharine Falace

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Overview

Buchalter is a full-service business law firm that has been teaming with clients for eight decades, providing legal counsel at all stages of their growth and evolution, and helping them meet the many legal challenges and decisions they face. Our clients are engaged in a diverse global economy governed by complex laws and regulations, and they trust us as advisers and business partners because we are involved in their world. They rely on our forward-thinking to help them resolve problems before they arise.

At Buchalter, we practice in that spirit.

Our founding principle-providing our clients with the best business solutions-continues to lead us. We value each client relationship, recognizing that their success is our success. Our overarching goal-getting the best results for the client in a timely manner with sensitivity to cost-has engendered client loyalty, and the firm has grown from that loyalty.

Our lawyers are accessible, resourceful, skillful and adept at responding to change. Our technological capabilities keep case law and rule changes at our fingertips and client communications current, enabling us to create efficient, superior outcomes.

We strongly believe that technology is a tool that furthers the practice of law and have used that belief to develop a cutting edge platform for our firm. We use a meshed (NVPN) network to facilitate work among offices, Cisco VoIP telephony and Video-over-IP conferencing. Sharing documents is seamless through FileSite, which is also utilized to create our Client Extranets. To support our litigation matters, we use Concordance and Opticon, as well as LiveNote and Sanction. Unlike many firms, we have the capacity to process e-Discovery in-house, reducing client costs.

Buchalter lawyers are also active members of the communities in which they live and work. Leadership is a value the founding partners practiced and passed on to the current generation of attorneys. Our lawyers sit on the boards of prominent organizations, teach and lecture frequently. We actively participate in many associations and groups including the Public Law Center, San Francisco Legal Aid Society, Practicing Law Institute, California State Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the LACBA Domestic Violence Project, the Sojourner Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Phoenix and many others.

Buchalter is consistently ranked among the leading law firms by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, The Daily Journal and the Los Angeles Business Journal. It is also ranked among the leading firms nationally by American Legal Media and the National Law Journal.

Buchalter's commitment to reflecting and enhancing the rich diversity of the clients and communities in which we practice is more than eight decades strong. The firm's diversity of attorneys and staff provides clients with a greater array of creative talent and alternative thinking, benefiting all.

Lawyers Worldwide: 476

Areas of Practice

Professionals

Partners

Katharine  Falace

Katharine Falace

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James  Rose

James Rose

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James B.  Wright

James B. Wright

Partner Emeritus

Of Counsel

Articles

What is the Fair Chance Ordinance?

September 11, 2024 By: Amber Healy, Craig Nickerson, and Spencer Adler On September 3rd, 2024, Los Angeles County’s Fair Chance Ordinance (“FCO”) went into effect, establishing new criminal background check requirements for employers in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. The FCO expands the limitations placed on employers by California’s Fair Chance Act (“FCA”). Does this Impact You? The FCO applies to employers: (1) located or doing business in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, and (2) employ five or more individuals (including independent contractors)...

A Brave New World(?) – A Closer Look at the Jaden Rashada NIL Litigation

By: Stephen Best, Clayton Barnett, and Brian Adkins August 27, 2024 Introduction As many sports lawyers are aware, there have already been several examples of name, image, and likeliness (“NIL”) litigation throughout the country.  In fact, we previously reviewed several groundbreaking cases which stood to fundamentally alter the landscape of college athletics.  However, while these prior cases have largely sought to establish or revise policies concerning how scholar-athletes may receive compensation, recently, new ground has been broken once again...

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Press

Daniel C. Silva, Quoted in Gaming America

"Buchalter Attorney and former federal prosecutor Daniel Silva, who led the investigation while at the US Attorney's Office, told Gaming America: The criminal penalty paid by Wynn is the largest criminal penalty in the history of the Department of Justice for a casino. The criminal conduct involved third-party businesses, agents and related entities in the United States, Latin America and Asia. These third parties acted as separate, unlicensed financial institutions – known as 'money transmitting businesses.' Through the use of these money-transmitting businesses, gamblers at Wynn (and Wynn itself) were able to evade foreign and US laws governing monetary transfer and reporting...

Philip Nulud Appointed Co-Chair of the Bench Bar Coalition

Phlilip Nulud was recently appointed Co-Chair of the Bench Bar Coalition. He was sworn in by the Chief Justice at the Annual Meeting of the California Judges Association. The Bench-Bar Coalition (BBC) was formed in 1993 under the leadership of the California Association of Local Bars (CALB), the State Bar of California, and the Judicial Council to enhance communication and coordinate activities with the state, local, and specialty bar associations on issues of common interest to the judicial branch-particularly in the legislative arena. Securing adequate, dependable, and stable funding for the trial courts has been a primary focus for the BBC...

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