Mr. Richard C Koman
Law Offices of Richard C Koman
Quite simply, we are creating a different kind of litigation experience. We view a plaintiff’s lawsuit as a life-changing and healing experience. Because to be victimized in your own home, or injured in a car crash, or having your body hurt by a doctor you trusted, or being sexually abused by an employer, or even just being betrayed by a business partner … these are events with deep impacts.
In each case, a wrongdoer thrust an unwanted change at you. They created a deep hole and threw you in. Doctors may never make you completely better. Therapists may never completely heal you.
They don’t provide justice.
Civil litigation cannot completely fill up the hole, either. At the end of the day, there is only a pile of money. If that’s all you get out of this, just money, you’ll still be in the hole.
It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.
Going through a lawsuit can in fact be a healing process. Working with Alexandra Moore, a coach who specializes in Emotional Freedom Technique and Matrix Re-Imprinting, we work deeply with clients to help you tell their story (a crucial part of the litigation process) and find your voice.
That’s where healing comes from — and justice.
Once the blocks are gone, once you feel empowered to tell your story, once you know you’re entitled to get back what was taken from you, you will tell your story strongly in deposition and trial.
That’s Litigation for Transformation.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Landlord Tenant
- Evictions, Housing Discrimination, Landlord Rights, Rent Control, Tenants' Rights
- Free Consultation
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Contingent Fees
Due to the uncertainty and delay in the payment of attorney fees, we ask for a 40 percent contingency fee. -
Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Our billing rate is $300 per hour for attorneys and $120 for paralegals.
- California
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- Attorney at Law
- Law Offices of Richard C Koman
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- Solo practitioner representing individuals and businesses in landlord/tenant, employment law, digital rights, and consumer credit problems, including Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
- Volunteer Clerk/Attorney
- Legal Aid of Sonoma County
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- Conducted intake interviews of clients; drafted motions, answers and declarations in unlawful detainer defense; drafted temporary restraining order requests in domestic violence and elder abuse; negotiated stipulated judgments with opposing counsel.
- Judicial Clerk
- Sonoma Superior Court
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- Reviewed parties' arguments, researched the law, and advised the Court on how to rule on specific legal issues.
- Law Clerk
- California Rural Legal Assistance
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- Performed legal research and wrote office memoranda on such legal questions as landlord/tenant law, causes of action, rules of court. Reviewed evidence, drafted statement of facts and outlined legal analysis for brief in mediation. Drafted summary of relevant case law for appellate brief.
- Advisor
- Sonoma Small Claims Clinic
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- Interviewed and counseled over 200 members of the public seeking information about using the the Small Claims Court. Typical conflicts included breach of contract, landlord-tenant dispute, wage-and-hour disputes.
- Empire College Law School
- J.D. | Law
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- Honors: Magna Cum Laude
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- The George Washington University Law School
- B.A. | Journalism, Political Science
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- Pro Bono Award
- Sonoma County Bar Assoc.
- Received Sonoma County Bar Assoc. award for volunteer attorney efforts for Legal Aid of Sonoma County.
- Certificate of Appreciation
- Sonoma County Courts
- Law clerk for Judge Gary Nadler.
- Certificate of Appreciation
- California Rural Legal Assistance
- Volunteer law clerk for nonprofit law agency
- Presidential Certificate of Appreciation
- Service Corps of Retired Executives
- Went to Macedonia on USAID-sponsored international development mission.
- Sonoma County Bar Association
- Member
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- Q. If you purse an existing debt after a bankruptcy is complete will the debtor have to repay?
- A: If I follow the question correctly, you are asking if the debt still exists after the bankruptcy discharge? In general terms, no - a Chapter 7 bankruptcy wipes out the debt - assuming we are talking about an unsecured nonpriority claim. In various scenarios, the debt could still remain.
- Q. Can u legally get a sixty day notice to leave your appartment for no reason at all
- A: Yes. That is what a 60 day is for - for the landlord to be able to choose whom she wants to live in her property. The only exception to this is the landlord can't evict for an "improper" purpose - meaning retailation, discrimination, that sort of thing.
