Real Estate Law Corporation

Focus and practice areas

Real estate work sits at the center of this Sacramento firm, and the name Real Estate Law Corporation matches what it does. The firm handles purchase and sale transactions, commercial and residential leasing, and landlord-tenant matters. It also takes on evictions, real estate financing, and development and construction work.

The real estate practice reaches into disputes as well as deals. The firm handles easements, title review, foreclosure, quiet title actions, and partition actions. Real estate litigation rounds out this side of the practice.

Leasing and landlord-tenant work covers both the drafting stage and what follows. A commercial lease sets rent, term, and each side's duties, and disputes over those terms can lead to eviction proceedings in California courts. The firm's listing of leasing, landlord-tenant law, and evictions together shows a practice that follows a tenancy through its stages.

Business and estate planning work

Beyond property, the firm builds a business law practice. It forms corporations, LLCs, and partnerships, and it drafts contracts for clients who need them. The team also handles mergers and acquisitions, breach of contract disputes, partnership disputes, and business litigation.

Estate planning fills a third area. Here the firm prepares revocable living trusts, pour over wills, and powers of attorney, along with the transfer documents that go with them. A general counsel service gives businesses ongoing legal support from outside the company.

A revocable living trust holds assets during a person's life and directs where they go afterward, and a pour over will moves anything left outside the trust into it. Powers of attorney name someone to act on financial or health decisions if the client cannot. These documents work together, and preparing them as a set is common practice.

How the team is built

The firm lists four attorneys, and their backgrounds cluster around real estate and business. Shawn Dhillon is the Managing Partner. He works on real estate and business law matters, including real estate litigation and transactions, and he has represented clients in commercial real estate transactions in California.

Kiran Dhillon is a Partner and holds an MBA. She advises commercial landlords, property management companies, and business owners on real estate, landlord-tenant, and corporate questions. Her earlier work included in-house counsel roles for a California healthcare system and a mutual fund trust administrator. That background gives her a close view of how legal problems land inside an operating business.

The two of counsel attorneys

Anthony Smernes, Jr. brings decades of legal experience across civil litigation, criminal law, real estate law, real estate development, and business law. He has represented businesses, developers, commercial property owners, and investors in California.

Frantz Farreau is a real estate attorney and a licensed California real estate broker with nearly a decade of experience. He advises on commercial real estate transactions, landlord-tenant matters, purchases and sales, and title issues. He also teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Law and has held leadership positions with the California Lawyers Association Real Property Law Section. In my opinion, a broker's license next to a law degree is a useful pairing for clients who want the legal and the market side of a deal read together.

Offices and where clients come from

The firm runs from a main office in Sacramento, with additional offices in Roseville and Citrus Heights. All three sit in the greater Sacramento region, which keeps the core team close together.

Its service area stretches well past those cities. The firm lists work across California, including Stockton, Modesto, Fresno, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. Much of this work involves documents, filings, and negotiation, which lets a firm serve clients at a distance.

What the record shows

Firm materials point to more than 50 combined years of experience among the four attorneys. The site does not list a founding year, so the firm's age stays open. The experience figure gives a sense of the collective bench behind the four names.

As a reviewer, I read a practice this concentrated as a signal of the work the firm sees most. Real estate matters in California often move through county recorder filings, title companies, and, when they turn contested, the state's superior courts. Partition actions ask a court to divide or sell property that co-owners cannot agree on, and quiet title actions settle who holds a valid claim to a parcel. A firm that names these procedures is describing work it expects to handle.

Business and transactional side

Entity formation sets the legal structure a company operates under, and the choice among a corporation, an LLC, and a partnership shapes taxes, liability, and control. Mergers and acquisitions work involves due diligence, purchase agreements, and the closing steps that transfer ownership. The firm names all of these, which fits attorneys who move between transactions and the disputes that sometimes follow them.

Business litigation and partnership disputes often start where a contract or an ownership agreement breaks down. A breach of contract claim asks a court to enforce a promise or award damages, and a partnership dispute can turn on the terms partners agreed to at formation. Attorneys who both draft and litigate these agreements see the same documents from two sides.

How the practice fits together

The common thread across the firm's three main areas is property and the people and companies that hold it. Real estate deals, the entities that own real estate, and the estate plans that pass it to heirs all connect. Kiran Dhillon advises landlords and businesses, Shawn Dhillon runs transactions and litigation, and Frantz Farreau brings a broker's read to real estate counsel.

The facts a prospective client can rely on are straightforward. The firm has four attorneys and three offices in the Sacramento region. Its work centers on real estate, with business law and estate planning alongside it, and its attorneys report more than 50 combined years of experience. Those are the details the firm puts forward.