The primary focuses of Mr. Dreibholz's practice are business and corporate law, real estate law and civil litigation.
Mr. Dreibholz joined Morris Polich & Purdy LLP in 2002 after departing a competing Los Angeles/Century City law firm, where he focused on business litigation matters.
Mr. Dreibholz's experience includes prosecuting and defending UCC claims, claims of fraud, breach of contract, breach of warranty, breach of fiduciary duty, alter ego and violation of Business & Professions Code section 17200. He has represented clients in disputes involving bank depositors, real estate transactions, commercial leases and the dissolution and winding up of limited partnerships and limited liability companies.
More recently, Mr. Dreibholz successfully represented a minority member CEO in an arbitrated claim for breach of employment agreement, LLC agreement and fiduciary duty that involved minority member oppression, squeeze-outs, buy-out rights and the valuation of minority interests. He represented a partner in the auction of a general partnership's assets. He also pursued a limited partner's demand for an accounting and dissolution and winding up of a limited partnership to a favorable settlement.
Mr. Dreibholz has also represented air carriers, motor carriers, shippers and leasing companies in cases involving mass air disasters, leasing and financing, lessor and lender liability and the application of the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions, the Death on the High Seas Act, the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act and the Carmack Amendment.
Professional Memberships and Activities
· State Bar of California
· Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business & Corporate Law Section
· American Bar Association, Business Law and Litigation Sections
· Century City Bar Association
Distinctions
· California Super Lawyer Rising Star, 2009
Speeches and Publications
· "American Bar Association Issues Ethics Opinion Regarding Employee Use of Company Computer to Communicate with Attorney"
· "Sullivan v. Oracle - Update and Implications"
Articles
11/30/2011, American Bar Association Issues Ethics Opinion Regarding Employee Use of Company Computer to Communicate with Attorney
The American Bar Association recently issued an ethics opinion which stated that if a client communicates with an attorney about substantive legal issues using an employer-owned computer, handheld device or network, the attorney must assume the employer has a right to access the communications and, therefore, the attorney must warn the client about such risk. Although the opinion addresses an attorney's ethical duty to warn clients who use workplace computers or devices to communicate with their attorney that such communications may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege, the reasoning underlying the opinion has employment law implications.
10/3/2011, Sullivan v. Oracle - Update and Implications
This summer, the Supreme Court of California announced that non-resident employees may sue their California-based employer for overtime pay under California Labor Code sections 510 and 1194 based on work they performed in California, even if that work was only on a temporary or short-term basis. The Court suggested, without holding, that the same overtime requirements may apply to non-California employers who send non-resident employees to California on temporary or short-term work assignments.