Practice
Business, Contracts & Real Estate
Agreements, entities, and property are where a small ambiguity becomes an expensive problem two years later. The useful time to look at a document is before anyone signs it.
What this covers
One practice, four connected areas. These are screening categories for a consultation, not a promise that a particular matter will be accepted.
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01
Formation, governance, and operations
Choosing a structure, writing down who decides what, and recording how owners join, leave, and get paid. Most ownership disputes trace back to a document that was never written or was copied from somewhere it did not fit.
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Contract drafting, review, and negotiation
Service agreements, vendor and supplier terms, letters of intent, settlement documents, and the amendments that accumulate around them. The review question is always the same: what does this actually require, what happens if it goes wrong, and who carries that risk.
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Transactions, leases, and property agreements
Property paperwork moves quickly and is full of dates. Anthony has spent years on the transaction side of California real estate as a licensed broker, which means he reads these documents knowing how they are actually used, not only how they are drafted.
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Business, ownership, landlord tenant, and property disputes
When something has already gone wrong, the first step is establishing what the documents and the conduct actually created, then deciding whether resolving it or pursuing it is the better use of your money.
Why the real estate background matters here
Anthony has held a California real estate license since 2011 and has been a licensed broker since 2015. That is a long time reading purchase agreements, leases, disclosures, and addenda in their working environment, alongside lenders, inspectors, escrow, and the parties themselves.
It means a property document is not an unfamiliar object. He knows which terms get skipped, which dates are quietly load bearing, and where the version people describe drifts from the version they signed.
A note on roles. Anthony's real estate license and law practice are separate. An attorney engagement does not make him the broker in a transaction. Any matter that could mix those roles requires separate written analysis before an engagement.
What to have ready
You do not need to send anything yet. Just knowing what exists makes the first conversation far more useful.
For a document review
- What the document is, and whether it has been signed
- Who the parties are, including every entity name
- Any deadline attached to it, including a signing window
- What you want it to do, in plain words
For a dispute
- What was agreed, and how it was recorded
- When things went wrong, and what has been said since
- Whether anything has been filed or served
- Any date you have already been given
Contact
Send the outline, not the file.
Describe the agreement or the dispute in a few lines. Please do not attach documents or confidential details before representation is confirmed in writing.
- Phone (909) 246-3010
- Email aj@anthonyjones.org
Keep a first email brief and leave out confidential details. Contacting Anthony does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not extend any deadline, so call if a date in your matter is close.