Perry D. Mocciaro is a business litigator with over 30 years' experience, specializing in real estate and related matters. He practices actively in both state and federal courts, has personally conducted dozens of trials and binding arbitrations from commencement through conclusion, and has taken and defended hundreds of depositions. Mr. Mocciaro has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, has written and lectured on Remedies for the California Continuing Education of the Bar, and has lectured on Evidence and then litigation-related topics. He is a 1975 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, where he was also the winner of the honors moot court competition and a member of the national moot court team.

In keeping with the firm's philosophy of balancing excellence with cost-effectiveness, Mr. Mocciaro is personally involved both in day-to-day litigation proceedings and in supervising other attorneys where matters are either large enough to require a team approach or small enough to be handled most efficiently by a single junior lawyer.

Representative Litigation Matters

· Represented one of the country’s largest parking operators in litigation brought by a competitor alleging unfair competition and unfair trade practices in connection with our client’s having taken parking concessions away from that competitor in the Sunset Strip area. Obtained a preliminary injunction against the competitor’s use of disputed parking spaces in the area, and subsequently won summary judgment dismissing all of the competitor’s claims against our client.

· Substituted into a specific performance action on behalf of a purchaser land developer three weeks prior to trial, after the developer’s existing counsel had opined that the case could not be won. Prevailed in obtaining a judgment for specific performance at the ensuing bench trial, and thereafter had that judgment affirmed on appeal by unanimous decision.

· Successfully represented a ground lessor in a ground rent revaluation arbitration and ultimately fixed the new rent at the amount which our client claimed to be owed. Successfully had the arbitration award confirmed as a judgment setting forth that new rent amount, even though the deciding-vote neutral arbitrator had refused to find for that amount and instead voted that the amount should be a compromise between out client’s position and the ground lessee’s position. Our client’s rent amount over the succeeding rental period was caused to be over $1 million higher than it would have been under the valuation being asserted by the ground lessee.

· Represented an investor who turned a struggling clothing and accessories company into a multi-million dollar phenomenon, and prevailed against one of the founders of the company to establish our client’s 100% ownership.