Kathleen J. Smith

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Kathleen J. Smith

Address

300 E. Esplanade Dr., Suite 1980 Oxnard, CA 93036

Member Details

Specialty

Business and Real Estate Litigation

Law Firm

Schneiders & Associates LLP

Area of Practice

Business Litigation, Civil Litigation, Class Action Defense, Employment Law, Homeowners Association Disputes, Real Estate, Trademark Disputes, Trust and Probate, Wage and Hour Claims

Admission

California

Professional Affiliations

California State Bar; Ventura County Bar Association, 2015-2017; Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association; Women Lawyers of Ventura County; Jerome H. Berenson Inn of Court—member since 2011

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, Juris Doctor; Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts

Location

Ojai, Oxnard, Ventura, Westlake Village

Biography

Kathleen J. Smith is an experienced business and real estate litigator. Kathi advises clients on and handles all types of civil litigation, focusing on LLC and business disputes, real estate, trust and probate, and homeowners association disputes. Kathi is experienced in all types of dispute resolution, from mediation to arbitration to civil trial.

Kathi’s accomplishments at the trial level include: judgments in favor of breach of contract, easement dispute, multiple settlements on eve of trial relating to employment discrimination, wage and hour, landlord – tenant breach of contract of commercial lease, contract disputes, business dissolution, and partition. Kathi has also won an affirmed arbitration judgment at the appellate level. Kathi’s client was awarded $1,006,000 in a residential landslide non-disclosure dispute, including a punitive damage award from JAMS arbitrator.

Kathi’s successful mediations include multiple trust and probate dispute mediations, commercial dispute mediations, and LLC breakups and member disputes.

Following graduation from Georgetown law school, Kathi served two years as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. William J. Rea of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and then spent several years in Los Angeles handling litigation for a large New York law firm. In 1995, Kathi moved to Ventura County where she continued her practice of civil litigation, dispute resolution and business representation. Kathi joined Schneiders & Associates, LLP in 2013 to handle matters relating to civil litigation, trials, arbitration, mediation, and pre-litigation advice.