For over 30 years, the Law Office of Howard L. Hibbard has been recognized for offering creative and practical solutions to complex legal matters. Our breadth of knowledge and experience has earned us the reputation for offering intelligent solutions with the highest level of service. Our philosophy is simple: provide clients with the best solution in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
Our professional legal services, ranging from civil litigation to business law and real property considerations, touch almost every aspect of law including: formation of businesses to hold, resell and development of real property; generating tax savings; facilitating divorces with division of marital real property; creating revocable trusts to limit administrative costs and help preserve estates; and preventing elder abuse by intervening in wrongful acquisition of elder’s real property.
Downtown Burlingame
Our office handles a wide variety of civil litigation matters. General contracts, construction defects, personal injury, business law, employment and labor law torts, elder law and Real Property disputes are among the general categories in which The Law Office of Howard L. Hibbard has successfully assisted a wide client base. Our office is known for providing quality personal services to our clients and individually tailoring our services to best address our client’s needs.
Our Proven Track Record
CONDUCTING CONSTRUCTION DEFECT INVESTIGATIONS & LITIGATION – EXPOSED $2.4 MILLION IN DAMAGES through extensive investigation of a 34-unit condominium complex less than 2 years old. Assisted condominium owners by bringing lawsuit to have contractors make all necessary repairs. Attorney fees and expert witness fees kept to a level where condominium association was able to complete all repairs at a minimum cost to owner.
PROVIDING EFFECTIVE TACTICS TO CLOSE RIGHTFUL SALES – Represented Buyer in a transaction whereby Seller’s broker threatened to close escrow and re-list a property for sale unless Buyer met Seller’s demands for more money over the contract price. For a minimum legal cost we filed a Complaint, recorded Notice of Pending Litigation to suspend the ability to sell the property to another. The matter settled on Buyer’s original terms.
RECOVERING REALTOR COMMISSIONS – RECOVERED $90,000 where Seller and Buyer terminated escrow and engaged in a conspiracy to reopen escrow at another title company to evade paying realtor’s commission.