- Child Custody and Visitation
- Adoption
- Paternity
- Legal Separation
- Criminal DefenseThe HFM Criminal Law Group focuses on white collar and business crimes, with the advantage of having the legal expertise needed for any criminal matter by working with a full-service firm.
- FraudSuccessfully defended law firm in consolidated class action professional liability and securities fraud cases in state and federal court over issuance of tax-exempt municipal bonds. Class members sought damages in excess of $75 million.
- Theft
- MisdemeanorsHFM’s criminal law practice also extends to federal and state felony charges and is death penalty certified. This includes criminal defense representation of clients charged with state misdemeanors and federal and state administrative proceedings that seek punishment for alleged criminal conduct. In addition, the members of our criminal law group have extensive experience in Military Courts-Martial, family law and juvenile criminal matters.
- Embezzlement
- Restraining OrderOur family law attorneys are firmly committed to our community, and we are proud to represent a significant number of military families. Through our vast experience, we have become intimately familiar with military pay and benefits, including retirement. We understand the financial and logistical pressures placed on military families, offering reduced hourly rates to active duty military members and their spouses.
- Money Laundering
- Corporate LawSAN DIEGO (Oct. 20, 2022): Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP (HFM) is proud to welcome its newest partner, Michael P. Burns, who will be a part of HFM’s Corporate & Securities and…
- Mergers and AcquisitionsWe work with corporations and their officers, directors, and shareholders to ensure compliance with state and federal rules and regulations applicable to their business activities and industry, mergers and acquisitions, negotiation and drafting of credit facilities and financing transactions, procurement, licensing, management and auditing of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights and related matters, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights and related matters.
- Business Formation
- Business Disputes
- Business TransactionsIn addition to protecting intellectual property, HFM’s attorneys focus on enforcement. Proper management and control are essential to maintaining ownership of valuable intellectual property assets and realizing maximum profits. Our team prides itself on our dedication to counseling clients on business transactions and implementing effective strategies for licensing their intellectual property.
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual PropertyThe HFM Intellectual Property practice brings over 80 years of legal experience to modern day matters, successfully working with clients on strategies to assess, protect, manage, enforce and defend their patent, trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property law rights.
- Unfair CompetitionWe bring very diverse technical experience and training to our intellectual property engagements, with a results-oriented focus on protecting our clients’ rights for their latest technological advances, artistic works, and names and logos which identify their brand. Our work in intellectual property law also includes advising clients in a wide variety of industries on unfair competition, trade secret, and e-commerce issues.
- Wrongful TerminationOur attorneys also have extensive experience in all types of insurance law matters, with a long history of successfully representing insurers and policy holders on matters of coverage opinions and in providing in-depth insurance policy analysis for policy holders to assist in securing policy benefits.
- Employment LitigationWith an over 80-year history of representing local and national companies, the breadth of HFM’s experience covers the full gamut of employment issues. Some of the matters we handle include providing counsel and guidance on the following...
- Severance Agreement
- Real Estate LitigationHFM represents clients in every segment of real estate law and has earned a reputation for the highest level of professionalism among the escrow and title companies serving Southern California.
- Construction LitigationThe Construction Law Practice group at HFM has decades of proven legal expertise, providing high-level counsel to a wide range of clients in the construction industry including...
- Real Estate TransactionsOur environmental law experience includes handling complex environmental litigation involving damages, remediation and insurance and enforcement. We have also worked with clients on business and real estate transactions that involve substantial environmental liabilities. Our experience and expertise also includes judicial and administrative proceedings involving government regulatory agencies arising under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA, or the Superfund Act), California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and other California and Federal statutes and regulations.
- Eminent DomainThe Firm’s eminent domain practice involves representation of property owners, businesses, and public agencies in all matters involving the acquisition of private property for public use. This includes eminent domain court proceedings, relocation assistance, and administrative hearings. We provide a full range of eminent domain services tailored to each client’s individual situation from the initial public agency contact, acquisition offers, trials, and appeals on issues affecting just compensation for property, loss of goodwill, severance damages to remaining property, as well as inverse condemnation to compensate for a public agency’s actions which constitute a taking of property through physical or regulatory actions.
- Easement
- Land Use and Zoning
- Citizenship and NaturalizationWe have extensive experience in all areas of immigration and nationality law and are qualified to provide a full range of services, including employment-based immigration, I-9 compliance, audit representation, family-based immigration, deportation and removal hearings, naturalization & citizenship cases, asylum cases, cases under DACA and VAWA, and consular processing of visas and green cards. We also provide counsel to employers on developing immigration policies that best reflect corporate priorities and requirements under U.S. immigration laws.
- Family Immigration
- Employment Immigration
- Green Cards
- Personal InjuryIn addition to traditional transportation cases, several Higgs Fletcher & Mack attorneys have extensive experience in the vertical transportation industry. Vertical transportation involves claims related to the use of elevators, escalators and conveyors. Our vertical transportation attorneys regularly defend catastrophic personal injury cases against allegations of product defect, improper installation and maintenance. The vertical transportation team also litigates complex cases involving commercial contract and construction delay claims.
- Medical Malpractice
- Estate PlanningHFM’s 80 year-history makes the firm a pillar in the San Diego community, and we are honored that our reputation has allowed our Trusts & Estates Practice Group attorneys to work with some of San Diego’s largest and most historically significant families.
- WillsOur estate planning attorneys handle estate matters ranging from simple wills to complex trusts. HFM litigates cases involving wills, estates, and trust matters, including will contests, contested conservatorships, and fiduciary surcharge actions. We are fortunate to have been involved in some of the largest and most complex probate litigation in the history of San Diego County.
- TrustsOur reputation has allowed our Trusts & Estates Practice Group attorneys to work with some of San Diego’s largest and most historically significant families.
- Probate
- BankruptcyOften referred to as “straight bankruptcy,” Chapter 7 is the simplest kind of bankruptcy, and involves liquidation of individual or business assets. Individuals are able to “discharge” most of their debts and begin with a fresh start. Businesses do not discharge their debts as do individuals but simply liquidate in Chapter 7.
- ForeclosureHFM attorney frequently represent clients in disputes regarding purchase and sale contracts, escrow agreements, lender issues, title and boundary disputes, title insurance, quiet title, adverse possession, easements, construction defects, homeowner association disputes, foreclosures, receivers, bankruptcies, tax appeals, land use, shopping center, and environmental litigation. The Firm also represents clients in disputes between property owners and with brokers, contractors, developers, and other professionals.
- Tax LawHFM’s breadth of tax experience and expertise includes all aspects of Federal, State and local taxation, including income, estate, gift, sales, use, excise, and property tax matters.