Lawrence R. Jensen, Attorney at Law
Comprehensive real property and business legal services. We strive to strike a perfect balance between the attention to detail that will let you rest easy and the efficiency that will keep you coming back as a repeat client.
Firm Overview
Lawrence R. Jensen has been practicing business and real
estate law in the San Francisco Bay Area since graduating cum laude from Santa
Clara University School of Law in 1987. After practicing for seven years at two
prominent San Jose business and real estate firms, Larry struck out on his own
in 1994, seeking a better, more personalized way of serving his clients legal
needs.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
BUSINESS:
- Buy-sell agreements
- Bills of lading, shipping/cargo contracts
- Contracts (manufacturing, distribution,
commercial, retail) - Confidentiality, employment, non-compete and
non-solicitation agreements - Intellectual property (IP) licenses
- Joint venture agreements
- Promissory notes and security agreements
- Warranties, releases, indemnification agreements
- Corporate, limited liability company (LLC),
partnership formation, operations, dissolution - Non-public securities offerings and sales
- Purchase and sale of business, including due
diligence
REAL ESTATE:
- Agricultural leases
- Brokerage contracts (authorization to sell,
broker-licensee) - Commercial leases, including industrial, office,
retail, shopping center - Easements
- Grant deeds, promissory notes, deeds of trust,
escrow instructions - Ground leases
- Options to purchase
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Residential leases
DISPUTE RESOLUTION:
- Boundary, encroachment, title and ownership
disputes - Breach of contract, warranty
- Breach of fiduciary duty
- Breach of lease
- Broker commission disputes
- Cargo loss or damage
- Collections (commercial only)
- Condemnation (eminent domain), inverse
condemnation - Construction delay, non-performance, defects
- Enforcement of judgment
- Environmental (contamination, remediation,
contribution) - Eviction (unlawful detainer) for commercial landlords and tenants, residential landlords
- Fraud and non-disclosure
- Mechanic's liens, stop notices, construction
bonds - Preferential transfers
- Professional errors & omissions -
malpractice (DRE licensees, engineers, architects, inspectors, escrow agents) - Real property tax reassessment challenges
- Relief from automatic stay
- Restraining orders, injunctions, writs of
attachment - Specific performance
- Trespass and nuisance
Lawrence R. Jensen
95 South Market Street
Third Floor
San Jose
CA
95113
- 408-995-3250
- 408-995-3265
Fees
No.
Residential evictions in most circumstances, $750 plus costs.
$325, may be discounted for non-profits.
Lawrence R. Jensen
Admitted to practice in California on
December 11, 1987, California State Bar Number 132330. Established
solo-practice in 1994, after seven years of practice at two prominent
real estate and business oriented law firms. My practice emphasizes
representation of small and medium sized businesses, non-profits, and
fiduciaries, including start-ups, landlords, real estate brokers,
commercial tenants, trustees, contractors, and others in real estate
and business transactions and litigation. I especially enjoy forming
corporations and limited liability companies, and representing parties
to real estate or business purchase and sale agreements or parties to
leases. I have had a lot of experience in handling boundary and title
disputes, mechanic's liens, non-disclosure, broker-commission disputes,
and in contract and lease litigation matters.
Areas of Practice
- Broker & Transaction Litigation
- Business & Commercial Law
- Business Organizations
- Buying & Selling
- Commercial Real Estate
- Condemnation
- Condominiums & Cooperatives
- Construction Contracts
- Construction Defects
- Construction Law
- Construction Liens
- Contracts
- Conveyancing
- Eminent Domain
- Homeowners' Associations
- Land Contracts
- Landlord/Tenant
- Mechanics' Liens
- Property Taxes
- Real Estate Law
- Real Estate Loans
- Renting & Leasing
- Residential Real Estate
- Title Insurance
- Title Litigation
Litigation Percentage
- 50% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions
- California, 1987
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1987
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1991
Education
- Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, California,
1987
Juris Doctor
Honors: Cum Laude
Honors: Winner, Leo A. Huard Intramural Moot Court Competition - University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California,
1984
Bachelor of Arts
Honors: With Honors
Major:
Psychology
Published Works
- Complying with Fair Housing Laws: Tips for Avoiding Prosecution, Apartment Management Magazine, April, 2000
- Focus on Construction Law: Contractors Find Clarity for Contracts in MW Erectors, San Francisco Daily Journal, July 21, 2005
Classes/Seminars Taught
- Teacher, Eviction Law, Neighborhood Revitalization Program, City of San Jose
Professional Associations and Memberships
- State Bar of California, Real Estate Law Section
- State Bar of California, Business Law Section
- Santa Clara County Bar Association
- Santa Clara County Association of Realtors
- Tri-County Apartment Association
- California Apartment Association
- City of San Jose,
1998
- Present
Independent Contractor
Past Employment Positions
- Liccardo, Rossi, Sturges & McNeil,
1992
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1994 - Hallgrimson, McNichols, McCann & Inderbitzen,
1987
-
1992
Birth Information
- 1959, Oakland, California, United States of America