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| | Address | | 7540 Shoreline Drive, P.O. Box 692050 | | Stockton, California 95269-2050 | | (San Joaquin Co.) | |  | Accepts Credit Cards |
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| | Contact Information | | Phone: 209-478-2000 | | Fax: 209-478-0354 | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.kroloff.com | | | Send Us Email |  |
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| Kroloff, Belcher, Smart, Perry & Christopherson practices in the following areas of law:
General Civil Practice and Litigation in State and Federal Courts. Administrative, Agricultural, Appellate, Banking/Financial Institutions, Bankruptcy-Creditor's Rights, Business, Commercial Transactions, Construction, Corporate, Environmental, Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate, Health Care, Labor and Employment, Land Use, Products Liability, Real Estate Law, Fertility/Surrogacy Law, and Wine Law. | | Year Established: 1946 | Firm Profile:
Kroloff, Belcher, Smart, Perry & Christopherson, founded in 1946 by Yale Kroloff, is one of the oldest and largest firms in San Joaquin County and has a strong tradition of community and civic service. Kroloff, Belcher, Smart, Perry & Christopherson provides legal services to businesses, individuals and public agencies. The firm provides expertise in business and commercial transactions and litigation, real estate litigation and transactions, estate planning, trust and probate law, employment litigation and counseling, health care law, defense of hospitals and doctors in malpractice actions, products liability and fertility/surrogacy law. Kroloff, Belcher, Smart, Perry & Christopherson is dedicated to providing quality, timely and cost-effective legal services. | | Firm Size: 14 | Clients:
COUNSEL FOR: Abell Corporation; A. Sambado & Sons, Inc. (agribusiness); AKF Development, LLC.; Alpine Packing; Anderson Homes; Antonini Trucking Enterprises; Argus Contracting, Inc.; Associations of Realtors: Amador County; Calaveras County; Central Valley (Manteca, Modesto, Oakdale, Ripon, Stockton, Tracy & Turlock); Merced County; Tuolumne County; Atherton Homes; Bank of America; Boboli International; Boyce Holdings, Inc.; Boyce Resource Development; Brocchini Management; Caresco Homes; Clark Pest Control; Coffees of Hawaii; Copperford, LLC; Delta Rubber Company; Dillard's; Executive Living; Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp.; Filios Properties; Financial Title Company; First American Title; First National Acceptance Company of North America; Foster Dairy Farms; Foster Farms; Frontier Community Builders; Galli Properties, Inc.; Gateway, Inc.; The Grupe Company; Guntert & Zimmerman; Hayden & Thompson Peak, LLC; JBT Properties, Inc.; Mercury Companies, Inc.; Mervyn's; Michael David Winery; Murphy Companies (agricultural); Navistar International Corporation; Pacific Storage; Phillips Farms; Poly Processing, Inc.; The Quaker Oats Company; R & J Dondero, Inc. (agriculture); Rabo Agrifinance, Inc. (agricultural lender); Raymus Homes, Inc.; Roland Construction, Inc.; San Joaquin Electric, Inc.; Souza Realty & Development, Ed Thoming & Sons, Inc. (agriculture); Teichert Construction; Unocal; USF Bestway, Inc.; Wagner Land Company; Vaquero Farms, Inc.; Zamora Automotive. |
HEALTH CARE CLIENTS: Barton Healthcare System; BETA Healthcare Group; Catholic HealthCare West; Crestwood Hospitals, Inc.; Dameron Hospital Association; Emanuel Medical Center; Emergency Physicians Medical Group; Foundation Health; Lodi Memorial Hospital; Mark Twain St. Joseph's Hospital; Meadowood Health & Rehabilitation Center; Memorial Hospitals Association; Mercy Medical Center Merced; Oak Valley Hospital District; St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center; St. Joseph's Medical Center of Stockton; Sutter Health; Sutter Tracy Community Hospital; Tahoe Emergency Physicians Medical Corp.; Tuolumne General Hospital. |
PUBLIC ENTITIES: City of Ripon; County of Merced; County of San Joaquin; County of Stanislaus; County of Tuolumne. |
INSURANCE CLIENTS: AIG Technical Services; California Casualty Indemnity Exchange; Chubb Group of Insurance Companies; ESIS; Kemper Environmental; Optima Health Care Insurance Services; Risk Management Services; Sedgwick Caronia. |
CORPORATE TRUSTEE CLIENTS: Bank of Stockton; Bank of the West; Mechanics Bank; Union Bank of California. | Office Hours:
Monday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Tuesday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Wednesday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Thursday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Friday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
| Rate Information:
Fixed Hourly Rates
Fixed Fees Available
Accepts Major Credit Cards
 Visa
MasterCard | | FOUNDING PARTNERS | | Yale S. Kroloff (1907-1987). | | Richard Belcher (1913-1997). | | MEMBERS OF FIRM | | Thomas O. Perry (Member) born Glendale, California, November 22, 1945; admitted to bar, 1971, California. Education: University of Southern California (B.A., 1967); Loyola University of Los Angeles (J.D., 1971). Co-Author: "Jury Selection," Chapter in California Continuing Education of the Bar's Trial Practice; Civil Procedure During Trial, Volume I, 1995. Past Member, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association (Chair, Business Litigation Section, 2000-2002); The State Bar of California; American Board of Trial Advocates (President, Sacramento Valley Chapter, 2001). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Employment Law; Construction Law; Professional Liability; Products Liability. Email: Thomas O. Perry | | Gary Christopherson (Member) born Stockton, California, January 14, 1945; admitted to bar, 1970, California; 1973, U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Education: Stanford University (B.A., Economics, 1966); University of California at Los Angeles (J.D., 1969). Member, Moot Court Honors Program, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967-1968. Co-Author: "Jury Selection," Chapter in California Continuing Education of the Bar's Trial Practice; Civil Procedure During Trial, Volume I, 1995; California Litigation Review, Evidence Section, Annual Publication, 2001-2007, Litigation Section of the State Bar of California. Commissioner, 1999— and Chairman, 2002, Stockton Port District. Director, Union Safe Deposit Bank, 1998-2004. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1978-1980); State Bar of California (Member, Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar, 1976-1978; Member, Agribusiness Committee, 1992-1995); American Arbitration Association (Member, Commercial Arbitration Panel, 1977—). Practice Areas: Business and Real Estate Litigation; Real Property Law; Business Law; Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law. | | Christopher H. Engh (Member) born Twin Falls, Idaho, October 11, 1954; admitted to bar, 1980, California. Education: California State University at Sacramento (B.A., 1976; M.A., 1981); McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (J.D., with distinction, 1980; LL.M. in Taxation, 1983). Phi Kappa Phi. Order of the Coif. Recipient, Northern California Super Lawyer Award in Estate Planning, 2005 and 2006. Associate Legislation Editor, Pacific Law Journal, 1979-1980. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards in Civil Procedure, Corporations and Agency. Author: "Implications of Minimum Competency Legislation: A Legal Duty of Care," 10 Pacific Law Journal 947, 1979. Former Adjunct Professor of Law, Wills and Trusts, Humphreys College, Laurence Drivon School of Law. Named Super Lawyer, Northern California, Area of Estate Planning by San Francisco Magazine, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association; State Bar of California. (Certified Specialist, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law; Real Property Law; Business Law; Civil Litigation. Email: Christopher H. Engh | | Velma K. Lim (Member) born Stockton, California, September 12, 1953; admitted to bar, 1983, California and U.S. District Court, Central, Northern and Eastern Districts of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 1975); Stanford University (M.A., 1976); University of California at Los Angeles (J.D., 1981). Order of the Barristers. Moot Court Board, U.C.L.A. Member, U.C.L.A.-Alaska Law Review, 1980-1981. Author: "State v. Sundberg," 10 U.C.L.A.-Alaska Law Review 85, Fall 1980. Lecturer, "CEB Current Issues in Wrongful Termination and Discrimination Cases," 1991-2001, 2004. Presenter, "CEB Interplay of ADA, FMLA and Worker's Compensation", 1997-1998. Panelist, "CEB Fundamentals of Employment Law", 1999. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1999-2001); The State Bar of California (Member, Labor and Employment Section); California Society of Healthcare Attorneys. Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Law; Employment Counseling and Litigation; Civil Litigation; Business Litigation; Discovery Referee; Mediation and Arbitration. Email: Velma K. Lim | | Kim A. Smith (Member) born Stockton, California, April 24, 1952; admitted to bar, 1981, California. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., with distinction, 1974); McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (J.D., with great distinction, 1981). Order of the Coif. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1990-1992); The State Bar of California; California Association of Realtors (Member, Lawyer Referral Panel). Practice Areas: Real Property Law; Business Law. Email: Kim A. Smith | | Kathleen M. Abdallah (Member) born Detroit, Michigan, May 16, 1952; admitted to bar, 1988, California and U.S. District Court, Northern and Eastern District of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Dominican College (B.A., cum laude, 1974); McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (J.D., 1988). Member, Moot Court Honors Board. Assistant Comment Editor, Pacific Law Journal, 1987-1988. Author: Comment: "Guarantors and the Anti deficiency Legislation," 20 Pacific Law Journal, October, 1988. Co-Author: Review of 2001-2007, Legislation and Developments, California Litigation Review, Litigation Section of the State Bar of California. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association (Chair, Business and Litigation Sections, 2002 and 2003); American Bar Association; State Bar of California; Central California Bankruptcy Association; Judge Consuelo M. Callahan Inn of Court, 2006-2008 (Executive Committee, 2006-2008). Practice Areas: Business and Real Estate Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Business Law; Banking Law; Creditors Rights; Health Care Law; Appellate Law. Email: Kathleen M. Abdallah | | Allison Cherry Lafferty (Member) born Sacramento, California, October 8, 1974; admitted to bar, 1999, California. Education: University of California at Davis (B.A., 1996); McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (J.D., with distinction, 1999). Traynor Honor Society. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award, White Collar Crime. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association (Member, Board of Governors, 2002-2007; Chair, Across the Bar, 2001-2007; Barristers' Section, 2000-2006); The State Bar of California. Reported Cases: Pacific State Bank v. Greene (2003) 110 Cal.App. 4th 375; 1 Cal. Rptr. 3d 739; Van Hulle v. Pacific Telesis Corp. (N.D. Cal 2000), 124 F.Supp.2d 642. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Business Law; Construction Law; Employment Law; Healthcare Law; Products Liability. Email: Allison Cherry Lafferty | | Laurie Bell Schrum (Member) born Ontario, California, November 28, 1962; admitted to bar, 1993, California. Education: University of Colorado at Boulder (B.S., cum laude, 1989); Hastings College of the Law, University of California (J.D., 1992). Member, Moot Court Board. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award in Landlord/Tenant Law; David E. Snodgrass Moot Court Competition Award. Assistant Instructor: Legal Research and Writing, 1990-1991, Appellate Advocacy, 1991-1992. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association; State Bar of California; California Association of REALTORS (R). Practice Areas: Business Law; Real Property Law; Surrogacy Law; Estate Planning; Employment Law. Email: Laurie Bell Schrum | | ASSOCIATES | | Joshua J. Stevens (Associate) born Santa Maria, California, 1979; admitted to bar, 2005, California. Education: California Polytechnic State University (B.S., Psychology, 2002); McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (J.D., 2005). Recipient, Barrister's Scholarship, 2002-2003. Author: "Proposition 71: The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act of 2004," McGeorge California Initiative Review, Spring 2004 Issue. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association (Across the Bar, 2006—; Barrister's, 2006—); State Bar of California. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Business Law; Construction Law; Health Care Law. Email: Joshua J. Stevens | | Kerry L. Krueger (Associate) born Fairfax, Virginia, January 16, 1964; admitted to bar, 2006, California. Education: Western Washington University (B.A., 1985); McGeorge School of Law, University of Pacific (J.D., 2006). Traynor Honor Society. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Contract Disputes; Estate Disputes. Email: Kerry L. Krueger | | Majique Ladnier (Associate) born Visalia, California, 1979; admitted to bar, 2007, California. Education: University of California, San Diego (B.A., Political Science, 2001; B.A., Economics, 2001); University of California, Davis (J.D., 2007). Member: State Bar of California San Joaquin County Bar Association. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation. | | Matthew S. Reynolds (Associate) born Sacramento, California, March 4, 1977; admitted to bar, 2004, California, U.S. District Court, Eastern, Northern, Southern and Central Districts of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Education: University of California, Berkeley (B.A., highest distinction, 1999); University of California at Los Angeles (J.D., 2004). Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient, Highest Distinction in General Scholarship; Rotary Club of Santa Rosa Transfer Scholarship, College of Letters and Science Dean's Office Scholarship. Member: University of California at Los Angeles Law Review, May 2002-May 2004; Pacific Basin Law Journal, August 2001-May 2002. Participant, Semester Abroad, Delhi University of India. Research Assistant, University of California at Los Angeles Law School, May 2002-May 2004. Operations Manager, February 2000-May 2000 and Business Process Coordinator, August 2000-April 2001, i-Beacon.com. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association (Chair, Section on: Information Technology; Member, Section on: Business & Litigation); American Bar Association; State Bar of California. Practice Areas: Contract Litigation; Creditors Rights in Bankruptcy; Business Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Breach of Contract; Bankruptcy Litigation; Civil Appeals; Business Law. Email: Matthew S. Reynolds | | OF COUNSEL | | Claude H. Smart, Jr. (Of Counsel) born Tacoma, Washington, March 25, 1927; admitted to bar, 1954, California. Education: San Jose State College; University of California at Berkeley (A.B., 1950); Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (LL.B., 1953). Named, Lawyer of the Year, San Joaquin County Bar Association, 2004. Board Member, Boalt Hall Alumni Association. Member: San Joaquin County and American Bar Associations; The State Bar of California (Member: State Bar Judicial Council; Joint Commission on Discovery, 1984-1986); Northern California Association of Defense Counsel (Past President, 1979); American Board of Trial Advocates (Member, National Executive Committee, 2002-2005; President, Sacramento Chapter, 1984); International Association of Defense Counsel; Defense Research Institute (President-Elect, 1992-1993; President, 1993-1994; Chairman of the Board, 1994); Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel. (Retired). | | J. Douglas Van Sant (Of Counsel) born Las Vegas, Nevada, May 14, 1942; admitted to bar, 1967, California. Education: Harvard College (B.A., cum laude, 1964); Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (J.D., 1967). Author: "Failure to Warn and the Learned Intermediary," Chapter in Defense Research Institute Coursebook, February 1990. Member: San Joaquin County Bar Association; The State Bar of California; National Health Care Lawyers Association. [Capt., U.S. Air Force, 1968-1973]. Languages: German. Practice Areas: Insurance Defense Litigation; Health Care Law; Medical Malpractice Litigation. Email: J. Douglas Van Sant |
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