MBV Law is a results-oriented law firm which has served as trusted business and litigation counsel to companies and entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years. Most of our highly credentialed attorneys have more than twenty years of professional experience in their designated areas of legal expertise. MBV offers seasoned business judgment and specialized legal expertise in Corporate, Business, Architecture and Design, Labor and Employment, Real Estate, Food and Beverage, and Intellectual Property law, and Commercial Litigation. With deep expertise in transactional and litigation matters, MBV is dedicated to understanding our clients’ businesses and providing them with strategic and cost-effective legal advice.
BILL MANDEL
Admitted to bar, 1970, California. Education: University of Southern California (B.S., cum laude, 1964); University of California at Berkeley (J.D., 1969). Certified Public Accountant, California. Ernst & Young, Audit Staff, 1964-1967; Deloitte & Touche, Tax Department, 1968-1970; Associate, Jackson, Tufts, Cole & Black, 1971-1974. Full Profile…
DON BUDER
Admitted to bar, 1980, California. Education: Princeton University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1974); University of California at Berkeley (J.D., 1980). Fulbright-Hays Scholar, Free University of Berlin, 1975-1976. International Fellow, Columbia University School of International Affairs, 1976-1977. Executive Editor, California Law Review, 1979-1980. Associate, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, 1980-1982. Full Profile…
JONATHAN S. O’DONNELL
Admitted to bar, 1981, California. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., with High Honors, 1977; J.D., 1981). Associate, Horwich & Warner, 1981-1986; Founding & Managing Partner, O’Donnell & Pia, 1986-1996. Full Profile…
LAURA T. HOWARD
Admitted to bar, 1987, California. Education: Emory University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1975); University of California at Berkeley (J.D., Phi Beta Kappa, 1987). Member, California Law Review, 1985-1987. Associate, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, 1987-1992. Full Profile…
GREG L. BEATTIE
Admitted to bar,1980, California. Education: Stanford University (B.A., with distinction and departmental honors, Phi Beta Kappa, 1976); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1980). Law Clerk, Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk, 1980. Associate, Cooley Godward LLP, 1980-1986; UB Networks, Inc., Corporate Counsel and Secretary, 1986-1988, General Counsel and Secretary, 1988-1989; Bay Venture Council, LLP; Crosby Heafey Roach & May, 2001-2003. Reed Smith LLP, 2003. Full Profile…
CHRISTOPHER ARNOLD
Admitted to bar, 1981, New York; 1984, California. Education: Williams College (B.A., cum laude, 1977); New York University (J.D., 1981). Research Editor, Annual Survey of American Law, 1980-1981. Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, New York, New York, 1981-1984; Associate & Partner, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, 1984-1993. Full Profile…
ROBERT T. BURKE
Admitted to bar, 1972, California. Education: Santa Clara University (B.A., cum laude, 1965); University of California at Los Angeles (M.A., 1966); University of California at Los Angeles (J.D., 1972). Chief Articles Editor, UCLA Law Review, 1971-1972. Associate & Partner, Pettit & Martin, 1972-1995. Full Profile…
JUDI COHEN
Admitted to bar, 1984, California. Education: Northwestern University (B.S., 1981); Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1984). Adjunct Professor of Law, University of San Francisco, 2000-present. Partner, Stein, Rudser, Cohen & Magid LLP, 1997-2009. Full Profile…
DWIGHT DONOVAN
Admitted to bar,1984, California. Education: Stanford University (B.A., 1978); Hastings College of Law, University of California (J.D., 1984). Principal, Anderson, Donovan & Poole, 1990-2000.Full Profile…
ELI W. GOULD
Admitted to bar, 1986, California. Education: DePauw University (B.A., 1978); Cornell Law School (J.D., 1986). Counsel, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, 1996-2000. Full Profile…
SYVIA L. MAGID
Admitted to bar, 1994, California. Education: Whittier College (B.A., summa cum laude, 1991); Hastings College of the Law, University of California, (J.D., 1994). Associate Executive Editor of the Constitutional Law Quarterly, 1993-1994. Associate & Partner, Stein, Rudser, Cohen & Magid LLP, 1998-2009. Full Profile…
PAUL J. NEIBERGS
Admitted to bar, 1988, California. Education: Harvard University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1984; J.D., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1988). Notes Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1987-1988. Teaching Fellow, Harvard University. Associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 1988-1991. Full Profile…
ROBERT J. PIA
Admitted to bar, 1984, California. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., with High Honors, 1981); Hastings College of Law, University of California (J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif, 1984). Associate, Horwich & Warner, 1984-1986. Founder, O’Donnell & Pia, 1986-1997. [Of Counsel] Full Profile…
JACK C. PRAETZELLIS
Admitted to bar, 2009, California. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 2005); University of San Francisco School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2009). Extern for Justice Ignacio Ruvulo, Presiding Judge, First District, California Court of Appeal, 2008. Full Profile…
RICK RANDEL
Admitted to bar, 1989, California. Education: University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., cum laude, 1983); Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., cum laude, 1988). Associate, Pettit & Martin, 1988-1990; Assistant General Counsel, Real Property Services Corp., 1992-1997. Full Profile…
L. PETER RYAN
Admitted to bar, 1988, California. Education: University of California at Santa Barbara (B.A., 1982); University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., 1985). Associate & Partner, Reetz & Fox, 1987-1995. Full Profile…
LAURIE A. SANDERS
Admitted to bar, 1994, California; 1996, District of Columbia; 1997, Pennsylvania. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 1988); Duke University (J.D., 1994). Executive Editor, Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, 1993-1994. Associate, Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson & Hand, 1994-1996; Associate, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, 1996-1998; Associate, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, 1998-2000. Full Profile…
