Michael E. Reznick has 25 years of experience in major business and real estate litigation, providing aggressive, efficient representation to institutional lenders, commercial office landlords, real estate developers, homeowner associations, insurers and insureds, lawyers, accountants and other professionals, and a wide range of other businesses and individuals.  He has successfully handled countless bench and jury trials, most recently obtaining a defense verdict in favor of an accounting firm against fraud charges in Orange County.  Mr. Reznick's eclectic practice covers the gamut, including plaintiff and defense.  For example, he won a $7.2 million jury verdict against an insurance company on a bad faith coverage claim and a $1.875 jury verdict in federal court on behalf of Great Western Bank (now Washington Mutual) in a commercial banking dispute.  Mr. Reznick's cases also cover diverse substantive areas, including legal and accounting malpractice, probate and trust matters, corporate litigation, construction defect and related claims, landlord-tenant issues, partnership disputes, banking and insurance coverage matters, and a broad variety of other real estate and business disputes.  Among other things, Mr. Reznick won a jury verdict and obtained a subsequent $1.4 million settlement on behalf of a building owner on Wilshire Boulevard against two of Los Angeles most venerable firms in a case with extremely complex real estate issues.  Mr. Reznick also successfully defended Crafts Cabinets and its board of directors and management against a dissolution claim for persistent fraud and unfairness brought by a minority shareholder, and currently represents a minority shareholder in a corporate litigation matter involving a company with over $40 million in annual sales.

Mr. Reznick is admitted to practice in all California state courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court, Central District.  Mr. Reznick graduated summa cum laude from California State University at Northridge (B.A., with honors in Political Science, 1981) and cum laude from Loyola Law School (J.D., cum laude 1984).