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Michael F. Yoshiba is a shareholder
in the Litigation Department and the Eminent Domain Practice Group
at Richards, Watson & Gershon. Mr. Yoshiba specializes in the
area of eminent domain, representing public entities and property
owners in both litigation and advisory capacities through all phases
of the pre-condemnation and condemnation process. A partial list
of his current projects include the following: City of Agoura Hills
(public works); City of La Mirada Redevelopment Agency (commercial
property); County of Ventura (inverse condemnation). Mr. Yoshiba
has also represented a variety of public sector and property owner
clients through completion of negotiated sales of property.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Yoshiba represented the State of California,
Department of Transportation, Legal Division, for over six years
as a Deputy State Attorney and before that, as a right-of-way agent
for over ten years. While with CalTrans's Legal Division, Mr. Yoshiba's
experiences included numerous court and jury eminent domain trials
including: inverse condemnation case involving a dental practice's
claim for loss of business goodwill (five-day jury trial in LASC);
inverse condemnation case involving an owner's claim of precondemnation
delay damages to a multi-tenant residential building lost through
foreclosure (ten-day jury trial in LASC - defense verdict); eminent
domain action involving a sports bar's claim of loss of goodwill
(seven-day jury trial in OCSC - verdict no loss of goodwill); two
consolidated eminent domain actions involving an improved residential
property's claims of reasonable probability of zone change and valuation
(eight-day jury trial in SBSC - verdicts at or below statutory offer);
and eminent domain case involving a gas station's claim of loss
of business goodwill (five-day bench trial in OCSC - judgment at
statutory offer).
Mr. Yoshiba has made presentations on a variety of condemnation,
appraisal and commercial leasing topics to professional associations.
He is a member of the Honorable Benjamin Aranda Inn of Court, the
Japanese American Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar
Association. While in law school, Mr. Yoshiba served as a Research
Editor for the UWLA Law Review, 1994.
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B.S., California State University, Long Beach, 1984
J.D., University of West Los Angeles, 1994
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