Anne Marie Flaherty

     After law school, Anne Marie stayed in Palo Alto, California to practice in the business litigation department of Ritchey, Fisher, Whitman & Klein, and medium-sized Silicon Valley law firm with a fine reputation for quality and integrity. There, Anne Marie handled a variety of business disputes, including construction and engineering defects, trade secrets/intellectual property, partnership dissolutions, and real estate and brokerage litigation. In 1995, Anne Marie and her brother Michael faced each other on opposite sides of a difficult commercial landlord/tenant dispute involving a major but troubled shopping center; 1996 they joined forces in the Law Offices of Michael Flaherty in Sacramento, California, where Anne Marie gained new areas of expertise, including agricultural disputes, bankruptcy and adversary proceedings, and appeals. Still an English major and bookworm at heart, Anne Marie enjoys the wide range of legal and factual issues in business disputes, and the challenge of analyzing and presenting her clients position to adversaries and the court.