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PRACTICE AREAS
BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE
Wayne Grajewski is a Shareholder at the firm. Mr. Grajewski has extensive real estate litigation experience, including judicial foreclosure actions, specific performance actions, commercial landlord-tenant litigation, easements, CC&R litigation, and real estate broker and appraiser litigation. He has tried more than 75 cases to completion through court, jury trial or binding arbitration. He also has served as appellate counsel in over 15 cases, including two matters before the California Supreme Court.
Mr. Grajewski has worked on a number of high-profile matters, including representation of the world's second largest food production company in defense of a $40 million damage claim in federal court involving the exportation of beef to Korea and claims of breach of contract, fraud, interference with contract and Lanham Act violations; defense of a federal court action involving an oil refinery explosion that resulted in over 120 depositions and a multi-million dollar settlement; representation of one of California's largest supermarket chains in the defense of a claim by its landlord for millions in additional rent, and the prosecution of the supermarket's cross-complaint resulting in a defense verdict on the landlord's claim and a million dollar recovery by the supermarket chain; prevailing counsel in Sanchez v. Lindsey Morden, 72 Cal. App. 4th 249 (1999), establishing the principle that an independent insurance adjusting company owes no duty of care to the insured and owes a duty solely to the insurer; a successful suit against a large California real estate developer for violating a subdivision's CC&R's by changing a planned custom home community into a community of million dollar tract houses; a judicial foreclosure of a destination resort hotel resulting in a multi-million dollar deficiency judgment; and trial and appellate counsel in Mesnick v. Caton, 1986 Cal. App. 3d 1248 (1986), one of the leading California cases on boundary line agreement disputes and prescriptive easements.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Mr. Grajewski is a member of the State Bar of California, American Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association and National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (NARTC).
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Mr. Grajewski is a regular speaker at continuing education programs on preparing for and taking depositions. He has been a panelist for the Los Angeles County Bar Association on the legal duties of lawyers to non-client third parties, and a frequent speaker to professional groups on the enforceability of contractual limitation of damage provisions. Mr. Grajewski's most recent topics include "Legal Duties of Lawyers to Non-Client Third Parties" presented to the Los Angeles County Bar Association and "Preparing For and Taking Depositions", "Enforceability of Contractual Limitation of Damage Provisions" and "Litigating Boundary Disputes" prepared for MCLE programs.
HONORS, RECOGNITION
Mr. Grajewski was named a Southern California Super Lawyer 2006 specializing in Business Litigation.
EDUCATION
Mr. Grajewski received his J.D. from University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1976. He placed first in Boalt's 1975 McBaine Moot Court Competition. He also served as Chair of the Boalt Hall Moot Court Board from 1975 to 1976. Mr. Grajewski graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1973.
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