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Practice areas:

Construction Law
  • Construction law and real estate litigation
  • Construction contract drafting for owners, contractors, construction managers and professionals
  • Professional design and engineering liability
  • Catastrophic claims management
  • Construction liens, stop notices, Miller Act and delay and disruption damage claims
  • Surety representation
  • SB 800 procedures and protections
  • Environmental/Toxic issues
  • Construction site accidents
  • Land subsidence, landslides, construction defect and professional liability
  • Employment/ independent contractor issues, harassment and hiring practices
  • Eminent domain and inverse condemnation
Transportation Law
The firms' experience in the area of Transportation is varied and includes
  • Catastrophic traffic and crane claims
  • Roadway design, construction and maintenance
  • Dangerous condition of public streets and highways
  • Litigation involving state and inter-state travel
  • Watercraft liability
  • Common carrier liability
Hospitality
Our hospitality practice area lawyers have represented clients in litigation relating to:
  • Race track liability for guest, horse injuries, personal property loss
  • Hotels and resorts including matters of guest injuries, construction deficiency and water damage
  • Common carrier and bailee/bailor liability
  • Restaurants and nightclubs: crowd control, food product, employment training and guest safety
  • Leisure and premises operations such as sports stadiums, golf courses, malls, theatres, casinos, and spas
  • Stores’, gas stations’, parking and dealership facilities' op
Product Liability
Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki’s Liability Group counts the following within its expertise:
  • Elevator, escalator design, manufacturing, maintenance and liability
  • Crane design, manufacturing and liability
  • Construction site equipment
  • Construction materials/components
  • Consumer product litigation including cosmetics, food, clothing and leisure equipment
About Us

Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki, a mid-sized law firm, began with seasoned lawyers who have practiced law together their entire careers. Unconditional commitment to innovative professional service, rendered with integrity and insightfulness, is the cornerstone of Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki’s business.

Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki has pursued a model of representation which focuses on determining and understanding the complexity of our client’s business, interests and goals. We do this through the active participation of the firm’s principals and senior counsel in every matter accepted by the firm. Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki has become uniquely qualified to predict the probable opportunities and dilemmas facing our clients from our significant litigation work for diverse business clients. The lawyers of Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki are each dedicated to achieving a complete understanding of complex contracting, engineering, environmental and hazardous risk issues. This knowledge, combined with in-the-trenches experience, enables Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki to evaluate and formulate sound legal strategies and plans for businesses, whether encountering opportunities, needing risk management, or requiring the highest quality of legal advocacy.

Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki has enjoyed the finest quality staff over many years. We strive to maintain a working environment for our employees that is both challenging and respectful, and look for the brightest lawyers who exhibit an intense interest in the law and in their role as counselors and advocates. Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki’s lawyers demonstrate community leadership, both inside and outside our law firm.

The firm is headquartered in San Diego, but is able to handle business nationwide. Currently, representative cases include: modeling of pre-litigation resolution repair strategies for builders facing mold claims; “prompt payment” penalty recovery matters; high-rise structural steel commercial and residential design and construction litigation; and construction site injury matters for builders and sub-trades.

Balestreri, Pendleton & Potocki is qualified to counsel on a wide variety of matters, including: construction law, intellectual property litigation, professional liability, common carrier and ultra-hazardous risk management and litigation, real estate law and general civil matters.