Counts Law Firm PC

Focus and practice areas

The firm handles three fields of California civil law: business, family, and real estate. Each field carries a defined list of services on the firm's website, and the detail runs fairly deep for a practice of this size. The three together cover much of the everyday civil work a person or a small company runs into.

A firm that keeps business, family, and real estate under one roof can serve a client whose life touches more than one of them. A small-business owner going through a divorce, for example, may deal with both a property division and a question about the value of the company. Counts Law Firm works in all three of those fields, so that client can keep one firm across the set.

The three fields up close

On the business side, the firm handles business contracts, breach of contract and fraud claims, partnership disputes, and debt collection and negotiation. These are the matters that surface when a deal or a partnership goes wrong. In my opinion, pairing contract drafting with contract litigation is sensible, because the lawyer who writes an agreement understands where it can break.

The family practice covers divorce, child custody and visitation, child support, spousal support, and property division. It also includes restraining orders, prenuptial agreements, and living trusts. Those last items add a planning and protection element to work that otherwise runs through the courtroom.

The real estate practice covers construction disputes, co-ownership disputes, and purchase and sale disputes. The firm also handles purchase and sale transactions, so the same practice covers both the deal itself and the conflict that can follow it. A client who buys a property and later argues over it can stay with one firm across both stages.

How the team is led

Emahn Counts is the Managing Attorney. The website names him as the lawyer who directs each business, family, and real estate case in person. He handles the stages a matter passes through: the initial consultation, negotiations, court filings, settlement, and where it comes to that, trial.

A single named attorney directing the work tells a client who will answer for the case. As a reviewer, I read that as a structure where one person carries accountability for the outcome. The website presents the practice around this one lawyer, and it gives his role a clear title and a hand in every matter the firm takes.

Where the firm practices

The firm is based in Los Angeles and represents clients across Los Angeles County. Its stated service area includes Los Angeles, Studio City and Sherman Oaks, Pasadena, Burbank, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Long Beach. That spread covers a good part of the county's population.

Counts Law Firm appears in Los Angeles County Superior Courts. It keeps a main office and lists further locations around the greater Los Angeles area, several of them virtual. Virtual offices give clients in different parts of the county a nearer point of contact, and they suit a civil practice that spends much of its time on filings and negotiation.

How these matters generally proceed

Business disputes over contracts and partnerships usually begin with a demand and a review of the underlying agreement, and many resolve through negotiation before a judge hears them. Partnership disputes often turn on the partnership agreement and the books, and they can reach dissolution when the partners cannot agree on a way forward. Debt collection work follows a path of demand, negotiation, and, if it goes that far, a filed claim. These stages describe how such matters generally move in California courts.

Family cases move through the Superior Court on their own timeline. Custody and support questions go before a judge who applies California guidelines, and property division follows the state's community property rules. Restraining orders can move faster, since a judge can grant a temporary order and then set a hearing for a longer one. Prenuptial agreements and living trusts are documents a client signs outside any dispute, which is why a firm that offers both litigation and planning can help at more than one point in a family's life.

Real estate disputes over construction or co-ownership often turn on documents: the contract, the title, and the record of what each party paid or built. Co-ownership disputes can end in a partition action, where a court orders a shared property sold and the proceeds divided. Purchase and sale transactions are the planning side of the same field, where the aim is a clean agreement that heads off a later dispute. Counts Law Firm lists all of these on its practice-areas page.

What the stated record shows

The firm states that its attorneys have handled over 1,000 cases across more than 20 years. I report that as the firm's own figure, since its website is the source. A count of that size across two decades points to steady civil work over many years.

The website does not state an explicit founding year. In my opinion the clearer signal is the volume of matters and the length of the run, and both come from the firm's own account of its work.

The attorney's education and time in the field

Emahn Counts earned his law degree at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and finished there in 2003. He studied law in the same city where he now practices, so his schooling and his current work sit in the same region. His degree also puts the start of his career a little more than two decades back, and that fits the length of practice the firm reports on its site. For a client weighing a lawyer, the year of a law degree is a plain marker of how long the person has been at the work.

His stated focus matches the three fields the firm builds its practice around. That overlap matters for an office of this size, because the lawyer who leads the firm works across the same range the firm presents to clients. A person who meets him is meeting the attorney whose training sits behind the full set of services. For a small practice, that link between the named lawyer and the advertised work is worth knowing before a first meeting.

The main office and how to reach it

The firm's main office is at 15260 Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles. A fixed street address gives clients a set place to meet the attorney in person when a matter calls for it, and it marks the base from which the practice takes on work across the county. A named office also gives a small practice a fixed center that a client can picture and visit, which carries some weight when the rest of the intake happens by phone or online.

Clients can reach the office by phone at 626.463.7300, and the firm keeps its practice details online at countslawfirm.com. For a directory reader, a street address paired with a direct line answers two practical questions at once: where the work happens and how to open a conversation. A first call is usually the point where the initial consultation the firm describes gets under way.