Timothy M Kowal

I help trial attorneys win their appeals ...and if I can't help them win, I will make sure it is not because of attorney error.

My appellate practice focuses on both trial and appellate work. I represent clients in cases involving lender disputes, real estate development disputes, trespass and easement disputes, fraud and fraudulent transfers, breaches of fiduciary duty, promissory notes, trade secrets and unfair business practices, conversion, and most types of business and financial disputes.

I work directly with trial attorneys during litigation, including in dispositive motions, evidentiary hearings, trial, and posttrial motions, writs, and appeals, in state and federal courts. I have substantial experience in obtaining stays of judgment enforcement during appeal.

Using both trial and appellate court remedies allows me to develop more unique and effective legal strategies for my clients. My trial and appellate victories total over $60 million.

I taught civil procedure as an adjunct professor of law at the Fowler School of Law from 2015 to 2017.

Outside of my legal practice, I am active in my community in Huntington Beach. My wife, Andi, and I worked with councilmembers in 2017 toward making HB the third Orange County city to stop using glyphosate and toxic herbicides in city parks.

While in law school, I served as Editor-in-Chief of the Chapman Law Review. Before practicing law, I helped run a successful IT sales and consulting firm in Orange County that continues to serve small businesses and individual customers in the region. I graduated from UC Irvine with a B.A. in philosophy, and I am an alumnus of St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower.

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