Guillermo Ybarra
Business Law · Keene · Kern County
Bar #362362 · Admitted 2025
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Counsel for businesses: forming the company, contracts and deals, and the disputes that follow. This is the statewide record for business law in California: every attorney on the State Bar of California's official roll whose published practice reaches this area, shown in neutral directory order.
Californians search this field under many names · business lawyer, business attorney, business law attorney, corporate lawyer, corporate attorney · and the registry answers all of them from the same source. Below: the governing deadline with its citation, what to weigh as you read the record, the questions Californians ask with the code sections that answer them, and business law coverage county by county, from Del Norte to San Diego.
Four years to sue on a written contract; two years on an oral contract (§ 339).
Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 337
Fraud claims run three years from discovery (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(d)); unfair competition claims under Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 run four years (§ 17208). Contractual limitation clauses can shorten these periods.
Business law is two crafts: transactional work (forming the company, negotiating and drafting contracts, raising money, buying or selling a business) and dispute work (suing or defending over a contract, a partnership falling-out, a trade secret). Say which you need. For a transaction, ask whether defined tasks can be done at a fixed fee and how the attorney works with your accountant. For a dispute, weigh whether the attorney has tried or arbitrated cases of your size and subject matter, and their read on venue: county superior court, a complex-litigation department, or contractual arbitration. Bring the contract, the formation documents and the correspondence trail to the first meeting.
36,259 attorneys on the official State Bar of California roll list business law among their practice areas, with an address of record in 57 of California's 58 counties.
35,046 of them hold an active licence; the remainder are recorded as inactive and are not currently eligible to practise.
The largest county rosters are Los Angeles (11,360), Orange (4,472), San Francisco (4,465), San Diego (3,823) and Santa Clara (2,544).
349 hold a State Bar Certified Legal Specialist designation, a certification issued by the State Bar's Board of Legal Specialization, and not a rating or a ranking.
For 2,867, the registry records a language other than English, almost always from a firm website published in that language; that describes the website, not an attorney's own ability.
Business Law · Keene · Kern County
Bar #362362 · Admitted 2025
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Business Law · Ankara 06400 · Foreign County
Bar #363342 · Admitted 2025
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Business Law · Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz County
Bar #362577 · Admitted 2025
Taking new clients (attorney stated)
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Business Law · Anaheim · Orange County
Bar #345310 · Admitted 2022
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Business Law · Upland · San Bernardino County
Bar #249040 · Admitted 2007
Taking new clients (attorney stated)
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Business Law · Sacramento · Sacramento County
Bar #91593 · Admitted 1980
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Business Law · Concord · Contra Costa County
Bar #356056 · Admitted 2024
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Business Law · Tumwater · Non-California County
Bar #326708 · Admitted 2019
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Business Law · San Diego · San Diego County
Bar #349771 · Admitted 2023
Speaks Spanish, Portuguese · Taking new clients (attorney stated)
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Business Law · San Diego · San Diego County
Bar #352220 · Admitted 2023
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Business Law · SIGNAL HILL · Los Angeles County
Bar #366509 · Admitted 2025
Speaks Spanish, Tagalog · Taking new clients (attorney stated)
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Business Law · Laguna Beach · Orange County
Bar #158927 · Admitted 1992
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Four years for a written contract (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 337) and two years for an oral one (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 339), generally running from the breach. Fraud claims run three years from discovery of the facts (§ 338(d)). Many commercial contracts shorten these periods or add mandatory arbitration, so the agreement itself is the first thing to read.
The amount that will compensate the injured party for all detriment proximately caused by the breach, per Cal. Civ. Code § 3300: typically expectation damages, plus consequential damages that were reasonably foreseeable. Punitive damages are generally unavailable for pure breach of contract (Cal. Civ. Code § 3294 requires an independent tort such as fraud).
Almost never against employees. Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 16600 voids contracts restraining anyone from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business, and § 16600.5 (effective 2024) makes out-of-state non-competes unenforceable against California workers and creates employee remedies. Narrow statutory exceptions exist for the sale of a business (§ 16601) and partnership dissolutions (§ 16602).
Partners owe each other duties of loyalty and care under Cal. Corp. Code § 16404. Remedies for breach include damages, an accounting, expulsion or dissociation, and judicial dissolution of the partnership (Cal. Corp. Code § 16801) or of an LLC (Corp. Code § 17707.03). Breach of fiduciary duty claims generally carry a four-year limitations period (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 343).
Most are filed in the superior court of the county tied to the contract or the defendant's residence (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 395); claims of $35,000 or less proceed as limited civil cases. Several large counties, including Los Angeles, operate complex-litigation departments for qualifying cases. Contracts frequently route disputes to arbitration instead, which California courts enforce under Code Civ. Proc. § 1281.
Filing Articles of Organization with the California Secretary of State (Cal. Corp. Code § 17702.01), then a Statement of Information within 90 days and every two years after (§ 17702.09). Most LLCs owe California's $800 annual minimum tax regardless of income (Rev. & Tax. Code § 17941). The operating agreement is not filed with the state, but it governs how members share control, profits and exits (Corp. Code § 17701.10), which is where most later disputes start.
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