Theodora Oringher

The Theodora Oringher Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditor’s Rights Group is highly sophisticated, client-focused and results driven.  Theodora Oringher attorneys are strategic partners with their clients; offering counseling and advice in distressed environments.  We represent clients from various industries including retail, health care, banking, finance and capital markets, energy and resources, insurance, real estate, construction, technology, equipment suppliers, and manufacturing & distribution, and retail. This wide-ranged experience and base of knowledge fuels outside-the-box thinking as we focus on maximizing our clients recoveries and realizing their individual business objectives.

The Theodora Oringher Business and Commercial Litigation Practice Group is the centerpiece of Theodora Oringher's practice. We are well known for being the go-to firm for "bet the company" cases, and for handling some of the country's most complex, high profile and high stakes litigation.

In addition, because of Theodora Oringher's vast trial expertise and impressive array of trial victories, clients from throughout the land regularly retain Theodora Oringher to step in and serve as lead trial counsel shortly before trial, on cases previously handled by other firms. 

Theodora Oringher is particularly well versed in dealing with the media on high profile matters. Given the magnitude and complexity of the cases we handle, we routinely work with outside crisis communication public relation firms and media consultants. We have vast experience working with mock trial and focus group consultants, jury consultants, and other experts in high stakes matters.

The attorneys in Theodora Oringher’s Consumer Financial Services Litigation Practice Group have represented a wide variety of clients, including commercial and consumer banks, credit card issuers, residential lenders, automobile finance companies, student lending companies, credit reporting agencies, payment processors, investment banks, e-commerce companies, insurance companies, specialty finance firms, retailers and other businesses who deal with their consumer customers on credit.  These clients range from publicly traded companies doing business throughout the country, to medium-sized companies with regional influence, to small privately-held companies.

Theodora Oringher PC’s (“TO”) Insurance Litigation and Insurance Recovery practice provides policyholder clients with a wealth of experience in a number of arenas.  From litigating coverage disputes and bad faith denials of claims in courts and arbitrations around the country, to pursuing administrative remedies with the governmental agencies tasked with overseeing insurers, the attorneys in TO’s Insurance Litigation and Insurance Recovery practice have enjoyed many years of success for their clients.

Theodora Oringher’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice group has been delivering exceptional results to clients across all areas of IP-related disputes for many years. Our team of lawyers focus on a broad range of intellectual property disputes, including protection and enforcement of patents and trademarks both internationally and domestically, copyright infringement, unfair competition, antitrust and trade secret issues.

The Theodora Oringher Employment Law Practice Group is comprised of counselors who can supply training and advice that help businesses prevent employment disputes, as well as litigators who are experienced in defending individual employment claims and challenging class action claims.  We work with clients of all sizes, including growing businesses, industry groups, and large national and multi-national corporations. We represent employers in diverse industries, and have expertise in a variety of legal issues such as:

• Fair Employment and Housing Act and Title VII claims, including race, national origin, age, gender, sex discrimination, sexual harassment, hostile work environment and retaliation
• Wrongful termination in violation of public policy
• Whistleblower actions
• Breach of contract claims
• Labor Code § 132(a) claims before Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
• Hearings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)
• Hearings before the California Labor Commissioner
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Wage and hour claims against employers
• Employee benefit claims arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)

The Theodora Oringher Real Estate Practice Group offers top tier business and legal advice to its real estate clients.

Our real estate transaction attorneys provide comprehensive real estate services to the full range of players in the real estate industry across the United States from major institutional investors to entrepreneurs.  Our clients include lenders, borrowers, developers, landlords, tenants, investors, contractors, architects and property managers.

Our attorneys have extensive real estate transactional experience in:

• Issues, strategic planning and disputes arising out of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global health crisis
• Purchase and sale of all types of commercial projects including office, retail, industrial and multi-family
• Entity structuring, formation and organization
• Thorough and cost effective due diligence review and analysis
• Title and survey review and analysis
• Real estate secured financing, including acquisition, refinancing, construction and development financing, and participation agreements
• Loan modifications, workouts and project restructurings
• Foreclosures
• Defeasance
• Tenants in common transactions
• Section 1031 exchanges
• Leasing and lease modifications
• Resolution of lease disputes
• Real estate development and entitlement issues
• Property and asset management issues
• Preparation and negotiation of development agreements and property management agreements
• Affordable housing transactions — in affiliation with Section 42 tax specialists
• Easement and boundary issues — including reciprocal easement agreements