Strategy Law, LLP

Focus and practice areas

Strategy Law, LLP handles business law and real estate as its two main fields. The firm opened in 2014 and has kept that focus since. Its clients include companies, entrepreneurs, and investors across Silicon Valley and the wider Bay Area.

The practice list runs wider than those two headings suggest. It covers banking and finance, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, employment law, litigation, land use and development, and technology. In my opinion that spread fits a client base of California businesses that want one firm across several legal needs.

The business and real estate work

Company and deal work

On the business side, the firm handles entity formation, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and start-up matters. These cover the stages a company passes through as it forms, signs agreements, and changes ownership. Entity formation sets whether a venture becomes an LLC, a corporation, or a partnership, and that choice shapes tax and liability for years.

Mergers and acquisitions bring their own process. A typical deal moves through due diligence, negotiation of terms, and a closing where ownership and assets change hands. That is the general shape of the work the firm lists on its business pages.

Contracts, partnerships, and start-up matters round out the business practice. Contract work sets the terms two parties agree to and the remedies if one falls short. Start-up matters tend to combine formation, early contracts, and questions about ownership among founders, which is common ground for young companies in the region.

Real estate and land use

Real estate work follows a parallel path. The firm assists investors, developers, and owners with acquisitions, financing, leasing, and development projects. Each of those brings a different set of documents and decisions.

Financing and leasing carry their own paperwork. A commercial lease sets rent, term, and who pays for repairs and improvements, and those points shape a tenant's costs for the life of the deal. Acquisitions and development add title review, permits, and the timelines a project runs on.

Land use and development matters often go before city planning departments and local boards. Zoning rules and permits decide what a site can hold and how a project can proceed. That process can run long, and it tends to reward early legal input.

The other practice areas

Beyond deals and property, the firm lists several areas that businesses reach for less often but need when they arise. Banking and finance work supports lending and the agreements that back it. Bankruptcy and creditors' rights covers the side of insolvency where a company is owed money and wants to recover it.

Employment law touches hiring, workplace policies, and the disputes that can follow. Litigation is the firm's route when a matter reaches court, and it connects to both the business and real estate work. That link lets one firm carry a client from the contract stage through a dispute over the same contract.

Technology is a named practice area on its own, which fits a firm based in San Jose. Companies there often need counsel on contracts and corporate structure tied to their products. In my opinion, keeping technology as a named area signals where a good share of the client base comes from.

How the team is built

Two founding partners lead the firm: Tamara B. Pow and Jack W. Easterbrook. Around them the site names a group of partners, along with attorneys and of counsel lawyers. Paralegals and administrative staff support the legal team.

The partner roster includes Serge Filatov, Steven Kahn, Leiann Laiks, Lucy Lofrumento, Frank Maiorana, Kevin R. Martin, Michael Schachter, and Phillip Wang. Terri Molinaro and Jason Murai carry the attorney title. That is a dozen named lawyers, which gives a firm of this size room to match a matter to a named person.

Offices and client support

The firm runs two offices in California. Its main location is in San Jose's Almaden Financial Plaza, near the SAP Center, and a second office operates in Danville. Between them the firm reaches Silicon Valley, the greater Bay Area, and clients across the state.

Client support comes in English and Spanish, and the firm offers virtual consultations. For businesses that keep their own schedules, that mix of languages and remote meetings widens who can work with the firm. As a reviewer, I read the bilingual support as a practical fit for the Bay Area's mixed client base.

What the record shows

Strategy Law holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating. That rating comes from peer reviews of a firm's legal ability and ethical standards, and it is one of the older marks in the American legal market. The firm shows it on its home page.

The rest of the public record is straightforward to state. The firm has operated since 2014, names its two founders and a dozen lawyers in total, and lists the practice areas it covers. It works from offices in San Jose and Danville, and it serves clients across California in English and Spanish.