Mr. Infelise is a senior trial attorney specializing in high stakes business litigation. He has litigated complex environmental, federal and state taxation and commercial litigation matters. In an era in which few matters actually go to trial, Mr. Infelise has tried thirty six matters to judgment. On the environmental side, he was lead counsel for the lender and developer plaintiffs in RTC v. Rossmoor, 34 Cal.App.4th 771 (1995) one of the few environmental cost recovery actions tried to a jury. He was actively involved on behalf of the developer plaintiff in Bixby Ranch Co. v. Spectrol Electronics, the seminal California case involving stigma damages.

Mr. Infelise also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the Franchise Tax Board and in judicial proceedings in matters stemming from extremely complex tax deferral and minimization strategies. He has also represented clients in connection with property tax issues. His clients have ranged from high net worth entrepreneurs to institutional developers to media conglomerates. Finally, Mr. Infelise has handled a wide range of commercial disputes for real estate developers, financial institutions and other business interests.

Mr. Infelise is also an expert on the use of judicial reference to avoid jury trials. He represented the prevailing parties in Greenbriar Homes Communities, Inc. v. Superior Court (2004) 117 Cal.App.4th 337 and Trend Homes Communities, Inc. v. Superior Court (2004) 131 Cal.App.4th 950, the seminal decisions upholding contracting parties’ choice of dispute resolution mechanisms in the face of challenges based on unconscionability.

In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Infelise has represented developers throughout the western United States in connection with development of brownfields sites. Furthermore, since 1994 Mr. Infelise has been a member of the faculty at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law (formerly known as Boalt Hall), where he teaches Environmental Law and Policy, The Law of Dangerous Waste: CERCLA, RCRA and Common Law Claims and the Environmental Law Writing Seminar, as well as Remedies. He is the acting Executive Director of U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. He was the Interim Director of the Environmental Law Program in 2003.

Mr. Infelise graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law in 1980. He then joined the Los Angeles office of Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP. In 1998, Mr. Infelise opened the firm's San Francisco office, but maintains an active practice in Southern California.