Wade Litigation

Focus and practice areas

This is a California firm built around court disputes, and it represents both individuals and businesses. Its work splits into two broad tracks, one civil and one centered on families and estates. The site names eight practice areas, and they map onto those two tracks. The firm represents parties in trial courts and can follow a matter into an appeal.

Civil, business, and real estate disputes

Civil litigation is the firm's broad base. Business litigation covers disputes between companies, between partners, or between a company and a customer. Real estate litigation handles property disputes such as boundary and title questions and deals that fall apart. The firm also takes appeals, which review a trial record and the law applied to it, argued in written briefs before a panel of judges. In my opinion, keeping appeals in house is worth noting, because it lets a client stay with the same firm after a first ruling.

Family law and probate

Family law is a significant area on the roster, and it takes in divorce and child custody. Those cases move through the family court, where a judge can set temporary orders early and revisit them as the facts change. Probate litigation handles disputes over wills, trusts, and estates, which often puts relatives on opposite sides after a death. The firm's materials also name elder abuse and domestic violence, two areas that touch both family and civil work.

How the team is built

Amiel Wade founded the firm and is named as its founder in the site's structured data. The team page identifies twelve attorneys by name and title, and it sorts the wider staff into attorneys, paralegals, administration, and intake. That grouping tells a client who argues the case and who keeps the file moving behind it.

Victor A. Bullock holds the title of senior trial attorney. David Chon manages the probate group, and Xochitl Quezada manages the family group. Steve L. Derby and Yuri Voronin handle civil litigation.

Family law draws a large share of the named lawyers. Robert Gigliotti, Ryan D. Romero, and Maureen Carnahan work in that area, and Katerina Vita pairs family law with probate. Sosan Akbar and Anthony Daher each split their time between family law and civil litigation. The titles give a reader a quick map of who handles which kind of case.

Where the firm reaches across California

The firm keeps two main offices, one in Los Gatos in the South Bay and one in Redondo Beach near Los Angeles. That north and south split lets the firm cover cases at both ends of the state. Two staffed anchors at opposite ends suit a firm that files in courts across California.

The site also lists satellite offices in a long run of cities. In the north these include Sacramento, Walnut Creek, San Ramon, Alameda, San Francisco, Modesto, Merced, and Santa Cruz. In the south they include Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Newport Beach, and San Diego. The firm states that it serves clients throughout California. As a reviewer, I read that footprint as a claim of statewide reach anchored by the two main offices.

How a case is handled

The firm offers free case evaluations, which gives a prospective client a way to have a matter looked at before any commitment. The firm assigns each client a client liaison, a single point of contact who answers questions while the case moves along. That role can matter in litigation, where months pass between hearings and clients want to know where things stand.

A free evaluation fits the way many litigation clients start. They want to know whether a claim is worth filing before they spend on it, and a first review can sort a strong claim from a weaker one. The set process the firm describes gives that first meeting a place in a larger sequence.

The firm describes a set process that moves through consultation, strategy, and the handling of the case. Its intake form lists more than one way to bill a matter, including hourly work, contingency, and pro bono. Which arrangement applies follows the type of matter, since a business claim and a custody case run on different terms.

What the record shows

The published record is concrete on structure and lighter on individual detail. The team page names each attorney with a practice title, so a reader learns who sits in each seat and the kind of work they do. It does not publish bios, law schools, or admission years, and the site lists no founding year.

For someone weighing the firm, the documented picture is a general civil and family litigation caseload, led by founder Amiel Wade, staffed by a named team, and run from offices at both ends of California. Free case evaluations and an assigned liaison give a clear first step and a clear point of contact. Those are the facts the firm puts on the table.