Wood Litigation, APC

Focus and practice areas

This San Francisco firm handles civil disputes across four connected areas: real estate, employment, commercial litigation, and shareholder and investor matters. It represents both individuals and businesses, with clients in the Bay Area and across California. The APC in the name marks it as a professional corporation, a common structure for California law practices.

The firm resolves matters through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and trial. That range matters in practice. A client can push for an early settlement and still keep a credible path to a jury if the other side will not move. A practice that covers all four stages gives a client room to change tactics as a case develops.

Real estate and property matters

Property work makes up a large share of the practice. It covers neighbor disputes, easements, property line and boundary questions, contractor and construction claims, purchase and sale disputes, evictions, and landlord-tenant litigation. These cases surface when two owners read the same deed differently, or when a building project goes wrong.

Boundary and easement fights usually turn on old records: recorded deeds, surveys, and sometimes decades of documented use. Construction claims tend to involve contracts, change orders, inspection reports, and payment records. In California, eviction cases (called unlawful detainer) follow a compressed statutory timeline, so these matters can move faster than most civil suits. Landlord-tenant disputes in the state carry their own rules on notice and habitability, separate from ordinary contract law. Purchase and sale disputes often come down to what a seller disclosed and when.

Employment claims for workers and companies

The employment practice represents both employees and employers. Its matters include wage and hour claims, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. It also handles trade secret misappropriation and embezzlement, where an employee faces a claim of taking property or data on the way out.

Representing both sides has a practical logic. A lawyer who defends harassment claims learns what a strong claimant case looks like, and the same holds in reverse. Discrimination and retaliation claims usually rest on protected categories set by state and federal law, and on the timing between a complaint and an adverse action. Wage and hour disputes often hinge on time records and how a job is classified. Trade secret cases usually start fast, sometimes with a request for a court order to stop use of the information while the suit proceeds. That work overlaps with the firm's commercial side, since employee theft and financial wrongdoing often land in the same file.

Commercial and ownership disputes

On the commercial side, the firm takes on breach of contract, fraud, and accountant malpractice defense. These are business-to-business fights. Fraud claims generally require proof of a false statement, reliance on it, and a resulting loss. The accountant defense work points to matters where a professional's judgment is questioned after the fact, and where the standard is what a reasonable accountant would have done at the time.

The shareholder and investor practice covers founder freeze-out claims, investor fraud, minority shareholder disputes, and mismanagement. The firm represents both the people bringing these claims and the companies defending them. Freeze-out and minority shareholder cases tend to involve founders or early investors who feel pushed out of a company they helped build. These matters often turn on fiduciary duty and on the value of a stake that one side wants to buy out. In my opinion, pairing this work with commercial litigation is a sensible fit, since the same contracts and financial records often decide both.

How the team is built

Four attorneys are named on the site. Greg Wood is the principal and has over twenty years of litigation experience, with work across the Bay Area and California. The site reports that he has been named a Super Lawyer during his career. His own focus leans toward business disputes, real estate, and employee theft cases such as trade secret and embezzlement matters.

Madeline Weissman and Aimee Lane are listed as of counsel, and Celine Nguyen as an associate. Of counsel usually describes an experienced lawyer with an ongoing but flexible tie to a firm, and an associate is typically a full-time lawyer earlier in a career. As a reviewer, I read a lineup like this as a small, senior-weighted team, with one principal setting direction and additional counsel on hand for specific matters.

What the record shows

The firm reports a $10 million jury verdict for a Silicon Valley electronics manufacturer in a case against officers accused of embezzlement. That result matches the firm's stated focus on employee theft and financial wrongdoing inside companies. The site also references settlements in real estate and shareholder disputes.

The verdict is one concrete result, and it works as a sample of the kind of case the firm pursues. It shows a financial-misconduct matter carried to a jury that returned a large sum. Settlements close a matter without a public judgment, and their terms often stay confidential. For a client weighing a similar dispute, the reported verdict gives a clear reference point.