Megan Mazza is senior counsel in Allen Matkins' San Diego office, where she represents real estate developers and investors statewide. Her work encompasses all aspects of real estate development litigation and related business litigation matters.
Mazza's experience and expertise include: large consumer fraud cases and class actions, cases involving contracts for the purchase and sale of land for development -- including the entitlement process, disputes related to commercial contracts, disputes between developers and brokers, condemnation and eminent domain, easement disputes, consumer purchase and sale agreement disputes and antitrust claims.
Bosa Development selected Mazza as its primary counsel for arbitrating disputes with defaulting buyers over escrow deposits for condominiums in its two premier San Diego projects. Mazza has also served as counsel for national homebuilder and Fortune 500 company D.R. Horton, "America's Builder," in a number of cases. Most prominently, she has been counsel to D.R. Horton in two nationwide class-action cases alleging fraud and unfair business practices.
In addition to her legal work, Mazza is committed to community service. She is on the board of the Big Sister League of San Diego, an organization that provides housing for needy women and provides mentoring to at-risk girls.
She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2004 and her B.A. in government, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 2001.
This is the culmination of a peer nominating process that asked San Diego County lawyers to name the best young attorneys in San Diego County who are: Hard-Working & Detail-Oriented, Knowledgeable & Enthusiastic, Ethical & Professional, and Committed to Furthering the Interests of Justice in Society.
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| Nominations Open: | September 14 |
| Nominations Close: | October 26 |
| Nominees Announced: | November 2 |
| Finalists Notified: | November 4 |
| Sponsorship/Advertising: | December 13 |
| Publication Date: | December 21 |
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University of San Diego School of Law presented its first Rising Star Recent Alumni Awards to Kristin E. Rizzo, 2006, of the Rizzo Law Firm and Catherine L. Tran, 2008, from Cubic Transportation Systems Inc.’s office of business development.
San Diego was one of the first regions to have an American Inn of Court and, based on the number of local Inns now, it is one of the organization's biggest supporters more than 25 years later.
The job market for associate and first-year attorneys is beginning to thaw but remains somewhat icy as the legal industry slowly recovers from the recession.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will use an unprecedented week's worth of argument time in late March to decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul before the 2012 presidential elections.
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Transcript reporter Doug Sherwin talks to Nadia P. Bermudez of the Brown Law Group LLP at the 2007 Young Attorneys reception.
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