Civil Litigation

The skill and reputation of Sideman & Bancroft LLP’s civil litigators is best evidenced by the significant portion of litigation matters referred to us by other lawyers in San Francisco, throughout California and elsewhere in the United States. Litigation clients benefit from the direct attention of experienced litigation partners, assisted where appropriate by competent and efficient associates and paralegals. This results in lower client costs with no decrease in the quality of legal services.

Expertise includes:

• Bankruptcy
• Business torts and unfair competition
• Construction defects
• Contracts
• Defamation
• Fraud
• Intellectual property
• Invasion of privacy
• Landlord /tenant
• Real estate
• Product liability
• Professional and fiduciary liability
• Securities
• Trusts and estates

Our litigators practice in federal and state courts throughout California, at both the trial and appellate levels, and in arbitration tribunals. The Firm represents both plaintiffs and defendants, ranging from individuals and families to partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations.

Pretrial and Trial

Sideman & Bancroft LLP has a cadre of experienced trial attorneys with recognized advocacy skills who can and will take a case to trial with skill and energy. Likewise, the Firm’s civil litigation attorneys manage pretrial work aggressively and efficiently, with a view toward positioning the case for a favorable settlement or successful result at trial or arbitration.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

The Firm’s civil litigators are highly experienced in all forms of alternative dispute resolution. We actively practice before all the leading dispute resolution providers, including JAMS and the American Arbitration Association. Additionally, our attorneys serve as neutral mediators, arbitrators, early neutral evaluators and private judges, through private retention or appointments by courts and other alternative dispute resolution service providers.

Appellate Practice

Sideman & Bancroft LLP is also experienced with appellate and writ practice in the California state courts and in the federal courts. Our attorneys have prosecuted and defended appeals following full trials, summary judgment proceedings and other appealable court orders, as well as engaging in writ practice to obtain appellate relief during lower court proceedings and following administrative proceedings when appropriate.