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Fainsbert Mase & Snyder, LLP Profile |
|  | | Law Firm in Los Angeles, California | |
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| | Location | | Suite 1100, 11835 West Olympic Boulevard | | Los Angeles, California 90064 | | (Los Angeles Co.) | |  | Accepts Credit Cards |
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(Main Office)
| Fainsbert Mase & Snyder, LLP practices in the following areas of law:
Real Estate, Business Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Insurance, Partnership Law, Wills, Trusts and Estates, Taxation, Bankruptcy, Litigation, General Civil and Trial Practice in State and Federal Courts. | | Year Established: 1987 | | Firm Size: 12 | Office Hours:
Monday: 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM
Tuesday: 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM
Wednesday: 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM
Thursday: 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM
Friday: 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM
| Rate Information:
Fixed Hourly Rates
Fixed Fees Available
Accepts Major Credit Cards
 Visa
MasterCard | | MEMBERS OF FIRM | | Stephen B. Fainsbert (Member) admitted to bar, 1966, California. Education: Wharton School; University of Pennsylvania (B.S., Economics); Michigan State University (M.A., Economics); University of California at Los Angeles (J.D.). Phi Alpha Delta. Author: "Secondary Financing by Seller and the Need for Subordination Agreements," California Escrow Association News, March, 1983; "Title Insurance," December 1997; "Financial Legalities", August 1998; "Secured Loans," February 1999; "Deeds of Trust," April 1999; "The Owner's Duty to Provide Security," March 2000; "Skimming and Trespass," April 2000; "The Pitfalls of Refinancing," February 2002; "Reattachment of Second Deed of Trust after Foreclosure," August 2002; "The Right of the Lender to Insurance Proceeds in the Event of Damage to the Insured Property," October 2002; "Closing the Escrow When the Property is in Imminent Danger of Foreclosure," April 2003; "Landlord's Responsibility for Tenant's Costs of Improvement," July 2003; "The Contract Written on a Paper Napkin," March 2004; "Permanent Exclusive Easements are Disallowed," June 2004; "Preventing Prescriptive Easements on Your Property," July 2006; "Identity Theft Used to Buy Property," September 2006; "Escrow May not Represent You (Not That They Do Not Want To)," January 2007; "Having a Bad Day at the Office (Litigation Can Sometimes Lead to Bizarre Results)," March 2007; "Right of First Refusals: A Dangerous Game," November 2007, Apartment Management Magazine. Co-author: "Creative Real Estate: Performance Deeds of Trust," California Real Estate Magazine, December, 1981. "Real Property Exchanges," California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1988, 1990 and 1991 Supplements to the 1st Edition; Co-Author: 2nd Edition, 1994. Lecturer: Tax Deferred Real Property Exchanges, 1979; Real Property Practice, 1980-1986 (24 hour course over four week period of time); How to Handle An Escrow, 1985, Financing Real Estate Transactions, 1986 and How to Prevent or Handle Disputes in Real Property Escrows, 1987, California Continuing Education of the Bar; Escrow Closings, California Continuing Education of the Bar Annual Real Estate Institute, 1989, Tenancy in Common Agreements, All-Inclusive Deeds of Trust and Land Contracts, California Continuing Education of the Bar Annual Real Estate Institute, 1990; Tax Deferred Real Property Exchanges, California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1994; Title Insurance and Entity Formation in Real Estate Transactions, California Continuing Education of the Bar Real Estate Institute, January and February, 1996; Fundamentals of Real Property Practice, California Continuing Education of the Bar in April, 1997, June, 1998, April 1999 and April 2000; Real Estate Law and Real Estate Taxation and Exchanges, El Camino College, 1969-1980; Consultant to the California Continuing Education of the Bar publication "Real Property Exchanges," 1982, "California Real Property Financing," 1988 and "Mortgage and Deed of Trust Practice," 1990. Listed, One of the southern California Real Estate Law Super Lawyers, Los Angeles Magazine. Member: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County (Member, Real Property Section) and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California (Member, Real Property Section). Practice Areas: Real Estate; Real Estate-Commercial Law; Real Estate Finance; Tax Deferred Exchanges; Title Insurance Law. Email: Stephen B. Fainsbert | | John A. Mase (Member) born Trumbull, Connecticut, August 11, 1958; admitted to bar, 1983, California; 1984, U.S. District Court, Central District of California and U.S. Tax Court. Education: University of Rhode Island (B.S., summa cum laude, 1980); Boston University (J.D., 1983). Beta Alpha Psi; Phi Kappa Phi; Beta Gamma Sigma. Executive Editor, Boston University Law School Commentaries Journal, 1982-1983. Co-Author: "Real Property Exchanges," California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1988, 1990 and 1991 Supplements, 2nd Edition, 1994. Consultant to the California Continuing Education of the Bar publication, "California Mortgage and Deed of Trust Practice," 1989. Lecturer: Tax Deferred Real Property Exchanges, 1991-1996; Real Property Taxation, 1989-1999; Low-Income Housing Partnerships, 1992-1998; Real Estate Taxation, University of Southern California, 1993-2003. Member: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County (Member, Tax Section) and American (Member, Section of Taxation) Bar Associations; State Bar of California (Member, Taxation Section). (Certified Specialist, Taxation Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Taxation Law; Real Estate; Business Transactions; Corporate Law. Email: John A. Mase | | Lawrence A. Snyder (Member) born Los Angeles, California, May 23, 1953; admitted to bar, 1981, California; 1982, U.S. District Court, Central District of California and U.S. Tax Court. Education: University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., 1975); Loyola Law School-Los Angeles (J.D., cum laude, 1981). Certified Public Accountant, California, 1977. Co-author: "Real Property Exchanges," California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1988, 1990 and 1991 Supplements, 2nd Edition, 1994. Member: Beverly Hills and Los Angeles County Bar Associations; State Bar of California; American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; California Society of Certified Public Accountants. (Certified Specialist, Taxation Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Real Estate; Business Transactions; Taxation Law; Corporate Law; Estate Planning. Email: Lawrence A. Snyder | | Jerry A. Brown, Jr. (Member) born Canton, Ohio, November 30, 1959; admitted to bar, 1986, Illinois; 1987, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1988, U.S. Tax Court; 1997, California and U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Education: Northern Illinois University (B.S., 1982); Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1986). Member: Beverly Hills and Los Angeles County Bar Associations; State Bar of California. Practice Areas: Real Estate Law; Business Law; Entertainment Law. Email: Jerry A. Brown, Jr. | | Michael H. Weiss (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1951; admitted to bar, 1982, California, U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California. Education: New York University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1975); University of San Francisco (J.D., cum laude, 1982). Member, McAuliffe Honor Society. Law Clerk to the Hon. Barry Russell, Bankruptcy Judge, Central District of California, 1982-1983. Author: "Copyright Licensees and Bankruptcy," Los Angeles Lawyer, April, 1993. Member: Los Angeles County (Member, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section) and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California. Practice Areas: Bankruptcy Law; Commercial Law; Financial Law. Email: Michael H. Weiss | | Sherry D. Spees (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; admitted to bar, 1981, Pennsylvania; 1985, U.S. Tax Court; 1986, New York; 1987, California and U.S. District Court, Central and Southern Districts of California. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., magna cum laude, 1977); Temple University (J.D., 1981); New York University (LL.M., Tax, 1983). Author: "Treatment of Federal Tax Claims In Bankruptcy," Tax Ideas, 1991. Member: Beverly Hills Bar Association; State Bar of California; New York State Bar. Languages: French. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Tax Law; Estate Planning; Bankruptcy Law. Email: Sherry D. Spees | | David S. White (Member) born Brookline, Massachusetts, January 16, 1950; admitted to bar, 1977, California and U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Education: Clark University (B.A., 1971; Early Childhood Education and Psychology Masters Program, 1972-1973); University of California at Davis (J.D., 1977). Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. First Place and Best Appellate Brief Award, U.C. Davis Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, 1975-1976. Captain, UC Davis National Moot Court Competition Team, Western Regional Finalist, 1975-1976; UC Davis Moot Court Honors Board, 1976-1977. Recipient, California State Bar Pro Bono Commendation, 1982, 1983 and 1984. Profiled in Los Angeles Daily Journal, "Verdicts and Settlements," Supplement, December 26, 1997. Author: "Business Tort Remedies," "Consumer Protection Remedies," Association of Business Trial Lawyers (Seventh Annual Seminar), "Remedies in Business Litigation," 1980; "Demeanor in the Courtroom," Association of Business Trial Lawyers (Eighth Annual Seminar); "Techniques of Persuasion," 1981. Bi-monthly columnist, real estate topics in Apartment Management Magazine. Frequent Lecturer, for California Continuing Education of the Bar on Litigation and Trial Practice topics. Member, Panel of Arbitrators, Commercial Panel, American Arbitration Association. Member: Screen Actors Guild, 1985—; National Association of Music Merchants. Licensed Real Estate Broker since 1986. Member: Beverly Hills Bar Association (Arbitrator, Mandatory Fee Arbitration Program, 1982—); Los Angeles County Bar Association (Arbitrator, Mandatory Fee Arbitration Program, 1982—; Ethics Committee, 1984-1985; Superior Courts Committee, 1984-1985); American Arbitration Association (Arbitrator, Commercial Panel, 1986-1994); Association of Business Trial Lawyers (Member, Board of Governors, 1982-1984; Chairperson, Ninth Annual Seminar, "Business Torts," 1982); Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Practice Areas: Real Estate Litigation; Business and Entertainment Litigation; Employer Rights; Alternate Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Arbitration. Email: David S. White | | Richard E. Wirick (Member) born Mansfield, Ohio, January 17, 1954; admitted to bar, 1984, California and U.S. District Court, Central and Northern Districts of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Education: University of California at Berkeley (A.B., cum laude, 1977); University of California at Davis (J.D., 1984). Associate Editor, University of California at Davis Law Review, 1983-1984. Recipient, Patrick Hopkins Prize, Best Article, 1983-1984. Author: "Dark Year on Death Row: Guiding Sentencer Discretion After Zant, Barclay and Harris," University of California at Davis Law Review, 17:2, 1984. Co-Author with Jacques E. Soiret: "The Trial of a Product Liability Case," Southern Methodist University Product Liability Institute, 1985; "The Three Worlds of Advertising Injury Coverage," Journal of Insurance Coverage, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2002. Editor of Business Coverage. Member, Editorial Board National Forum for Environmental/Toxic Tort Issues and American Business Trial Lawyers. Member: Los Angeles County and American (Member, Section on Insurance and Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law) Bar Associations; State Bar of California. Reported Cases: Privitera v. C.B.M.Q.A., 926 F.2d 890 (9th Cir. 1991); Wausau v. Jones-Booth, Cal. App. 4th (1997). Languages: Russian. Practice Areas: Insurance Coverage; Insurance Bad Faith; Reinsurance; Bankruptcy Litigation; Entertainment Law; Intellectual Property; Reinsurance counsel to ceding companies and reinsurers vis-a-vis retrocessionaires; Insurance broker litigation (wholesale and retail brokers and intermediaries). Email: Richard E. Wirick | | SENIOR COUNSEL | | Laura J. Meltzer (Senior Counsel) born New York, N.Y., 1956; admitted to bar, 1981, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1989, New York; 1991, California; 1994, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Education: University of New Hampshire (B.A., magna cum laude, 1978); Temple University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1981). Phi Beta Kappa. Law Clerk for the Hon. Abraham J. Gafni, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, 1981. Staff Attorney: Fainsbert Mase & Snyder, LLP, 2003; Berkowitz Black & Zolke, 2002-2003; Weiss & Spees, 2002; RightsLine, Inc., 2001; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 1999-2000; Legal Affairs, PolyGram Television, 1998-1999; Weiss Scolney Spees, LLP, 1994-1998; Goldfein & Joseph, 1985-1994; Cozen & O'Connor, 1982-1985. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Bankruptcy Litigation; Entertainment Law; Intellectual Property. Email: Laura J. Meltzer | | OF COUNSEL | | Jonathan C. Balfus (Of Counsel) born Lake Success, New York, August 13, 1963; admitted to bar, 1988, New York; 1991, California; 1993, U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California; 1997, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Education: New York University (B.A., cum laude, 1985; J.D., 1988). Reported Cases: Rosen v. Franklin Mint Co., 2004 WL 728718 (Cal. App. 2004); Citicasters Licenses v. Cumulus Media, 189 F. Supp. 2d 1372 (SD GA. 2002), aff'd 45 Fed. Appx. 879 (11th Cir. 2002); PLCM Group v. Drexler, 22 Cal. 4th 1084 (2000); Wilkes v. Rhino Records, Inc., 133 F.3d 931 (1997). Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Intellectual Property; Entertainment and the Arts; Real Estate. Email: Jonathan C. Balfus | | ASSOCIATES | | Dean E. Sussman (Associate) born Burbank, California, January 22, 1969; admitted to bar, 1996, California. Education: Stanford University (A.B., with distinction, 1990); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1996). Phi Beta Kappa. Member, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, 1994-1996). Member: State Bar of California. Languages: Italian. Practice Areas: Real Estate; Corporate Law; Business Transactions; Mergers and Acquisitions. Email: Dean E. Sussman | | Anne H. Krummenacher (Associate) born St. Louis, Missouri, November 22, 1951; admitted to bar, 1981, California. Education: Occidental College (A.B., magna cum laude, 1973); Loyola Marymount University (J.D., cum laude, 1981). Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Remedies. Member: Los Angeles County Bar Association; State Bar of California (Member, Sections on: Business Law; Real Property). Practice Areas: Real Estate; Corporate Law; Securities. Email: Anne H. Krummenacher | | Eva Jane Lee (Associate) admitted to bar, 2007, California. Education: University of California at Santa Barbara (B.A., cum laude, 2003); University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., 2007). Member: State Bar of California; Beverly Hills and Los Angeles County Bar Associations. Languages: Mandarin. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Real Estate Litigation; Business Litigation. Email: Eva Jane Lee |
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