Mahyar Ghassemian
Business / Contracts, Business Formation, Commercial Real Estate, Construction, Real Estate (Transactional/Litigation)
Mission Viejo, California
Personal Introduction
Mahyar Ghassemian is the founding attorney of Ghassemian Law Group and currently manages the firm. Ms. Ghassemian received a master’s degree in physics from California State University in Long Beach with honors and received her law degree from Western State University College of law, graduating Cum Laude in 1999. She was sworn in by the Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, for whom she clerked while in law school in December 1999. Since then she has served as a business and construction litigator with some big name firms in Southern California. In 2010, she left a partnership in a well-known civil litigation firm to start her own firm Ghassemian & Associates which then became Ghassemian Law Group in 2013. Since 1999, Ms. Ghassemian has defended numerous National and California construction companies and a multitude of businesses in a variety of lawsuits ranging from multi-million-dollar complex litigation matters to smaller cases.
Practice Composition
Transactional/Litigation
Education
Practice Summary
CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION: Ghassemian Law Group has represented some of the nation’s largest construction companies in litigation for over 20 years. We know the ins and outs of construction law and how construction companies and projects work, can anticipate opposing parties’ strategies, and use our science and technical expertise to analyze cases in a way that produces concrete results. BUSINESS LITIGATION: Ghassemian Law Group's business clients consist of an array of small and medium sized businesses, including Entrepreneurs, Business Centers, Tech Companies, Medical Groups, Dentists, Accountants and other corporate entities. Ms. Ghassemian’s experience in the corporate world has nurtured the business transactional and litigation practice of the firm, which ranges from corporate structuring and governance to litigation of a variety of business disputes. REAL ESTATE: We have years of experience representing some of the nation’s largest Real Estate companies in litigation. Ghassemian Law Group has a group of very experienced lawyers and provides cost-efficient services to Orange, San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino Counties, and throughout California.
Response Time
1 day
Awards
Avvo 10.0 “Superb” Rating
Avvo Client's Choice Award Badge
Avvo Client's Choice Award Badge
National Association of Women Business Owners, Orange County Remarkable Women, Entrepreneur to Watch
OC Metro Magazine Orange County's Top Attorneys
Orange County Bar Association Volunteer Recognition Certificate
Superlawyer
Affiliations
Laguna Niguel Chamber of Commerce
Laguna Niguel Lion's Club
Mission Viejo Chamber of Commerce
National Association Of Women Business Owners
Orange County Bar Association
Peter M. Elliott American Inn of Court
ProVisors
State Bar of California
Women Lawyers Roundtable
Personal Interests & Charitable Work
When she is not busy cultivating her firm, Ms. Ghassemian’s time is occupied by the array of high-ranking positions she holds in various professional organizations, which are enumerated in the Honors and awards page of this site. Ms. Ghassemian regularly lectures on hot topics for the Construction Industry and writes articles for the SCCA and other construction industry magazines. Ms. Ghassemian lives in Laguna Niguel California with her two children. She loves to spend her free time traveling, working out, hiking Orange County’s fabulous beaches, studying languages, and volunteering for organizations such as NAWBO, AGC, SCCA and OCBA. She is fluent in English, Persian, Turkish, French and conversant in Spanish.
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