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A Business And Real Estate Litigation Firm Serving California
Patrick R. Tira
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Practice Areas:
- Business and Real Property Disputes
- Business Counseling
- Consumer Finance Litigation
- Trusts and Estates Litigation
- Litigation & Appeals
Biography
Patrick Tira is a highly skilled attorney with a demonstrated history of resolving business and real property disputes. He also has extensive experience in creditor/debtor's rights, trade secret protection, shareholder disputes, and real estate finance.
Over the past ten years, Mr. Tira gained extensive experience first at a boutique law firm located in La Jolla, California and later as a partner with a national law firm largely based in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Tira is experienced in all stages of litigation, including motion practice, depositions and other discovery, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, trial, and appeal. Mr. Tira has recovered millions for his clients in judgments and arbitration awards, in addition to resolving most disputes with demurrers and motions to dismiss.
In addition to his success in the courtroom, Mr. Tira takes pride in assisting businesses and individuals to quickly resolve disputes and avoid litigation through effective sales contracts, purchase agreements, non-disclosure agreements, software license and development agreements, powers of attorney, shareholder agreements, promissory notes and security agreements, easement agreements, and employment contracts.
Mr. Tira is admitted to practice law in California, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and in the United States District Courts for the Southern, Central, Eastern, and Northern Districts of California.
Education
- University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California
- J.D. - 2007
- University of San Diego
- B.A., Political Science
- Honors: summa cum laude
- Honors: B.B.A., Real Estate Emphasis
- Honors: The Phi Beta Kappa Society
Bar Admissions
- California
- U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
Professional Associations
- Irish American Bar Association of San Diego, Board of Directors
- La Jolla Bar Association
- The Federalist Society
- Association Of Business Trial Lawyers
Honors
- SuperLawyers - 2022
- SuperLawyers - Rising Stars - 2022