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December 6 - Sacramento JAMES CLARKE is a shareholder in the tax and corporate group of the Sacramento law firm of Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Law Corporation. His practice focuses on business transactions, planning and dispute resolution, transactional tax and business planning matters in connection with mergers and acquisitions; structuring and choice of entity planning in connections with business formations; buy-outs; equity financings; reorganizations, acquisitions, business dispositions involving corporate (including nonprofit) and pass-through business entities, and client representation in federal, state and local tax controversy matters. Mr. Clarke has been recognized on the Best Lawyers in America 2004-2011 list, Tax Law. He is a member of the executive committee of the Tax Section of the Sacramento County Bar Association and a member of the State Bar of Californias sections on Business Law, Employee Benefits and Tax. Mr. Clarke earned his B.A. degree from the University of Alberta, and his J.D. degree, with distinction, and LL.M. degree, with great distinction, from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. He has spoken for various professional groups on topics related to his areas of practice. JAMES T. FREEMAN is a partner in the Sacramento law firm of Goldsberry, Freeman & Guzman, LLP, where his practice focuses primarily in the areas of business, commercial and real estate law, including business organizations, securities, real estate finance, mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions, with experience in business and real estate litigation. Mr. Freeman wrote the chapters relating to limited liability partnerships in advising California partnerships 3d Edition (CEB 1999) and "Limited Liability Partnerships in California: Panacea for Professionals or Trap for the Unwary", Business Law News, Fall 1996 (Official Publication of the Business Law Section State Bar of California). He has lectured frequently on LLCs and LLPs. Mr. Freeman received his A.B. degree from the University of California, Davis and his J.D. degree from the University of California, Davis, School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of California (past member, Partnerships and Limited Liability Company Committee, Business Law Section). Mr. Freeman also has been a member of the Board of Directors, Intellectual Property Section for the Sacramento County Bar Association. KEITH W. MCBRIDE is a shareholder with the Diepenbrock Harrison law firm in Sacramento, where he practices in the areas of business, intellectual property law, corporate, securities and franchise law. He has written various articles and has spoken for the Sacramento County Bar Association and the State Bar of California. Mr. McBride studied at the University of Goettingen, Germany, and he earned his B.A., M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of California at Davis. He is a member of the Sacramento County and the American (member, Section of Business Law and Forum on Franchising) bar associations and the State Bar of California (member, Business Law Section). RONALD P. WARGO is a partner with Friedemann Goldberg LLP, where he practices in the areas of estate planning and business organizations. He is certified as a specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. Wargo is experienced in strategic planning for wealth preservation, through the use of trusts, wills, and advanced techniques such as family limited partnerships and charitable trusts and entities. He also works closely with many privately-owned partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations. Mr. Wargo currently serves as chair of the Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Standing Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California. He has taught business organizations as an adjunct professor at Empire College School of Law. Mr. Wargo earned his J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and his B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. December 7 - San Francisco ROBERT S. FLETCHER is the principal attorney for the Fletcher Law Practice with offices in Newark. He has represented several clients in a wide range of legal issues throughout California. Mr. Fletcher earned his undergraduate degree at California State University at Sonoma and his J.D. degree at Golden Gate University School of Law. His work has focused on representing businesses on a wide range of issues, including; entity formation, drafting and negotiating contracts, and litigating business disputes. Mr. Fletcher previously worked for the State of California at the State Coastal Conservancy. DAVID HERZOG is an attorney with Pinnacle Law Group LLP in San Francisco. Mr. Herzog is certified as a specialist in taxation by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. He has been practicing in the areas of tax, business, and real estate since 1993. Mr. Herzog has an extensive and wide-ranging background in advising California businesses and individuals in a variety of circumstances and transactions. His entity formation practice includes profit and nonprofit entities. Mr. Herzog's tax practice includes a wide range of advice for individuals, corporations, LLCs, and partnerships in a variety of business sectors, concentrating on small to medium sized businesses and startups. He earned his B.A. degree at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, his M.A. degree at Johns Hopkins University, his J.D. degree at Golden Gate University School of Law and his LL.M. in Taxation with honors at Golden Gate University. DANIEL J. LEER is the principal of the Law Offices of Daniel J. Leer in Pleasant Hill, California. His primary focus is on federal, state and local tax law, including income tax, property and sales tax. Mr. Leer has structured venture investment funds, limited partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies in fields as diverse as online real estate marketing, online jazz reviews, small-cap Asian corporate investments, biotechnology startups, marketing services targeted to gay and lesbian consumers, and commercial and real estate investment. Mr. Leer has taught corporate tax at the Business School of Hayward State University and has lectured at continuing education seminars on topics including partnership law, tenancy-in-common and developments in federal income tax law. Mr. Leer is a member of the State Bar of California. He earned his J.D. degree from Boalt Hall School of Law (U.C., Berkeley), where he was a member of the California Law Review , his M.A. degree from the University of Chicago, where he was a Ford Fellowship Scholar and his B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
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