Alton G. Burkhalter
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 38 years of experience
Business Law, Real Estate
2020 Main Street Suite 600, Irvine, CA 92614
About Alton G. Burkhalter
Practice Areas
- Business Law
- Real Estate
Education
- Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, CaliforniaJ.D.
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Honors: Ranked Fifth in his Law School Class
- Northwestern State University, Natchitoche, LouisianaB.S.
- Major: Accounting
- Honors: cum laude
Languages
- English
Representative Cases
- Foxcroft Productions, Inc., et al. v. Universal Studios, LLC, et al., ($70 million jury verdict- Hollywood accounting)
- Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency v. Tower Music City ll, LLC, ($30.4 million jury verdict - eminent domain)
- Flowers, et al. v. Hillyer, et al., ($12.8 million verdict - breach of fiduciary duty)
- Las Palmas Associates v. Las Palmas Center Associates, ($11.2 million verdict - fraud)
- Tower Action Holdings, LLC v. Los Angeles County Waterworks, ($10.1 million verdict - breach of contract)
- Huntington Beach Chrysler Jeep, Inc. v. AM General, ($5.4 million verdict - breach of dealer agreement)
- HWB Automotive Group, inc. v. Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A., ($3.1 million verdict - fraud)
- Rancho Vista Development Company v. Richards, Watson & Gershon, ($2.5 million verdict - breach of fiduciary duty)
- EFC v McAllister: Defense of $3 million claim for alleged breach of development contract for proposed reality television show
- Fairchild Industries v Taylor: Defense of multi-million dollar malicious prosecutor claim for law school classmate
- Thrifty Playless, Inc. v. Mariners Mile Gateway, LLC, 185 Cal.App4th 1050 (2010)
- Kumar v. Yu, 201 Cal.App.4th 1463 (2011)
- NCAA v. Tarkanian, 10 F.3d 633 (9th Cir 1993) and 795 F. Supp 1476 (D. Nev. 1992)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- California, 1985
- Arizona, 1995
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
- U.S. District Court District of Arizona
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Tax Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
Other Affiliations
- Member of ABOTA (the American Board of Trial Advocates)
Fees
- Accepts Credit Cards
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Business Law, Estate Planning, Employment, Real Estate
Nearby Lawyers
- Business Law
- Real Estate
- 0.2 mile away
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