Buchalter

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

Main Contacts

Adam J. Bass

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James Rose

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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

Shareholder
James  Rose

James Rose

Shareholder
James B.  Wright

James B. Wright

Partner Emeritus

Of Counsel

Articles

The U.S. Supreme Court Rejects “Significant Harm” Standard for Claims of Workplace Discrimination; Adopts More Employee-Friendly “Some Harm” Standard

April 18, 2024 By: Leah Lively and Alexandra Shulman The Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, that will make it easier for employees to pursue discrimination claims against their employers based on job transfers or other non-pecuniary personnel decisions. In Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Muldrow, a female police officer, alleged that she was transferred to a less desirable unit because a new supervisor preferred a male officer for the role. The City of St. Louis countered that such transfers were routine and that Muldrow's supervisor had reassigned over 20 officers...

Corruption and Competition: The Wrong Goal in Football

2024 By: Melody Mohammadi Since their inception, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (“FIFA”) in 1904 and the Union of European Football Associations (“UEFA”) in 1955, football’s most important governing bodies, have aimed to promote fairness and act as representative democracies over arguably the most international sport to date. However, rampant corruption, open favoritism, and frequent infringements of competition laws have undermined their purpose and aim.1 Throughout modern history, each governing body has shown that it is willing to bend its rules for money, power, and political gain...

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Press

Buchalter’s San Diego Office Growth Featured in The Recorder

There’s Something in the Water: San Diego Is Once Again a Hot Market for National Law Firms April 22, 2024 By: Ronald E. Wood and Dale Durham San Diego has the popular image of an idyllic seaside university and beach town, protected by the U.S. Navy and nearby Marines. Yet, its siren song continues to lure some of the nation’s largest corporate law firms even as others have pulled up stakes and departed...

Monica Mazzei Featured in Marquis Who’s Who

Marquis Who's Who Honors Monica Mazzei, JD, for Expertise in Family Law April 12, 2024 Monica Mazzei, JD, LLM, has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process. Ms. Mazzei has established herself as a distinguished figure in family law, currently serving as a shareholder and family law chair at Buchalter in California, a full-service law firm...

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