Swanson Palmer J P C

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Palmer J. Swanson PC is a specialty law firm based in Fair Oaks, California. The firm is oriented towards commercial matters. It handles both litigation and transactional work. It does not handle criminal or family law matters. Only rarely will it handle personal injury cases, and then only if the matter involves serious injuries or other difficult issues. The firm has a niche practice in real estate and construction law and insurance coverage law.

Areas of Specialty:
A primary area of specialty is commercial real estate and construction law. The firm represents owners, design professionals and contractors in construction disputes. It handles professional liability cases for engineers, architects, and other like professionals. The firm handles all types of leasing disputes, including commercial evictions and actions for breach of lease, partnership and other entity dissolution matters and cases involving breach of fiduciary and other duties among shareholders, partners or other members of business entities. Straight construction defects and like litigation is also an area of expertise. We have tried to judgment change order cases and construction defects cases of all types. Mechanics lien litigation is a familiar area of practice.

The firm handles a wide array of commercial transactional matters.
Common engagements include incorporations and formation of entities in both California and Nevada, mergers, 1031 Exchanges, and drafting of loan documents on commercial secured real property transactions. The firm provides opinion letters to lenders on such matters. Leasing transactions are a primary specialty. The firm is familiar with the rules of tax law which drive these areas. Often, we represent brokers and owners in the formulation of listing and sale documents.

The firm has a niche in insurance coverage matters involving the foregoing issues. Mr. Swanson and Mr. Ashley have written hundreds of coverage opinions in matters involving coverage for construction defect matters as well as matters involving business tort claims.
Locations and Geographic Range:
The firm is based in Fair Oaks, California, in the Sacramento metropolitan area. Mr. Ashley is based in the Los Angeles area and provides coverage in the Southern California area. Historically, the firm has handled matters all over the State of California, and where issues of insurance coverage are involved, it has extensive experience with all of the Western states.

Mr. Swanson and Mr. Ashley are both graduates of the Law School at the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall). They have served as coverage and defense counsel for major insurers in the Western United States.