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Michael F. Yoshiba is a shareholder
in the Litigation Department and the Assistant Chair of the Eminent
Domain Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon. Mr. Yoshiba
specializes in the area of eminent domain, representing public entities
and property owners in both litigation and advisory capacities through
all phases of the pre-condemnation and condemnation process. A partial
list of his current projects include the following: City of Yucaipa
(public works); City of La Mirada (public works); Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena
Airport Authority (acquisition). Mr. Yoshiba has also represented
a variety of public sector and property owner clients through completion
of negotiated sales of property.
Before joining the Firm, Mr. Yoshiba represented the State of California,
Department of Transportation, Legal Division, for over six years
as a Deputy State Attorney and before that, as a right-of-way agent
for over ten years. Mr. Yoshiba's experiences include numerous court
and jury eminent domain trials including: defense of Ventura County
in a wrongful death and inverse condemnation case involving a landslide
(six-week trial in VCSC - no liability to County); inverse condemnation
case involving claim for loss of business goodwill (five-day jury
trial in LASC); inverse condemnation case involving an owner's claim
of precondemnation delay damages to a multi-tenant residential building
lost through foreclosure (ten-day jury trial in LASC - defense verdict);
eminent domain action involving a sports bar's claim of loss of
goodwill (seven-day jury trial in OCSC - verdict no loss of goodwill);
two consolidated eminent domain actions involving an improved residential
property's claims of reasonable probability of zone change and valuation
(eight-day jury trial in SBSC - verdicts at or below statutory offer);
and eminent domain case involving a gas station's claim of loss
of business goodwill (five-day bench trial in OCSC - judgment at
statutory offer).
Mr. Yoshiba has made presentations on a variety of condemnation,
appraisal and commercial leasing topics to professional associations.
He is a member of the Japanese American Bar Association and the
Los Angeles County Bar Association.
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