Irvine, CA
Landlord or tenant Lawyer at Irvine, CA
Practice Areas: Landlord & Tenant, Contracts & Agreements ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Settled a $1.4 million breach of lease case for $326,000
Los Angeles County Superior Court, Case No. BC-581551: Represented the Defendant-Tenant Eurostar, Inc. against the Plaintiff-Landlord's attorney Rosoff Schiffres & Barta in a $1.4 million breach of le ... ase civil action which I settled on April 8, 2016 for $326,000.
OUTCOME: Obtained insurance coverage to pay settlement
Los Angeles County Superior Court, Case No. VC-064243: Represented the Defendant-former Tenant of warehouse and office space in a $211,511 unlawful detainer and breach of lease action for holdover and ... restoration damages which I settled with the Plaintiff-Landlord Penn Account on December 10, 2015 for $125,000 but thereafter recouped in significant part from Ricardo's insurer ($118,639) and Ricardo's Licensee ($25,000) so that its out-of-pocket loss was limited to only $25,137 in "new money".
OUTCOME: Settled a $500,000 case for $50,000
Ventura County Superior Court, Case No. 56-2014-00447060: Represented the purchaser of an aircraft hangar at Camarillo Airport who was defrauded by the broker against the original owner's counsel Theod ... ora Oringher in a $500,000 plus unlawful detainer and ejectment action which I settled on October 19, 2015 for $50,000 from my client Dansk.
OUTCOME: Defensed $2.4 million breach of lease case across-the-board after five-day trial
Los Angeles County Superior Court, Case No. BC-526010: Represented the Defendant-Tenant Eurostar, Inc. and its personal Guarantor Eric Alon against the Plaintiff-Landlord's counsel Greenberg Glusker i ... n a $2.4 million breach of lease civil action which I won across-the-board after a five-day non-jury trial before Referee Dzintra Janavs on June 15, 2015. The court awarded Eurostar and Alon over $300,000 in attorneys' fees.
OUTCOME: Defensed $494,370 claim for attorneys' fees after half-day arbitration; panel awarded law firm only $36,988
Los Angeles County Bar Association, Case No. M-299: Represented former clients against one of the 15 largest law firms in the world where the law firm claimed it was owed unpaid attorneys' fees totalin ... g $494,370, which I won after a half-day arbiration proceeding before a three-arbitrator panel based on the panel's September 3, 2013 award of attorneys' fees to the law firm in the significantly reduced amount of $36,988.
OUTCOME: Awarded all past due rent ($104,562) plus attorney's fees
Los Angeles County Superior Court, Case No. SC-112379: Represented the Plaintiff-Landlord The Irvine Company in a commercial unlawful detainer action which I prevailed upon after a half-day non-jury tr ... ial before Judge Allan J. Goodman on June 27, 2011. The trial court awarded The Irvine Company all past due rent totaling $104,562 (before offsetting the Defendant-Tenant Grand American Food, Inc.'s $65,000 cash Security Deposit) plus its attorneys' fees and costs of court. Grand American, as Plaintiff, thereafter filed a separate civil action for breach of lease against The Irvine Company, as Defendant, to which Judge Jacqueline A. Connor granted The Irvine Company's anti-SLAPP motion to the unfair business practices cause of action of its Complaint on October 18, 2011.
OUTCOME: Attorney Kompa won case across-the-board in both the trial court and on appeal. The Court of Appeal affirmed a Judgment of Dismissal in attorney Kompa's favor, holding his enforcement of the money judgment he had won for his client was privileged.
84 Cal.App.4th 130 (Civil Code Section 47 litigation privilege)
OUTCOME: Attorney Kompa defeated the Debtor's Plan of Reorganization to pay his client, the Lender, a significantly lower interest rate than what was fair and equitable under the Bankruptcy Code.
91 B.R. 907 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 1988) (cram-down)
OUTCOME: Bankruptcy Court sustained attorney Kompa's objection to a creditor's $71,558.38 claim in its entirety.
59 B.R. 926 (Bankr. E.D. Pa. 1986) (reconsideration of claims).
OUTCOME: Attorney Kompa prevailed in a Bankruptcy Court trial, to recover the sale price for column covers his client, the Debtor Zerodec, sold and delivered to the Defendant.
54 B.R. 814 (Bankr. E.D. Pa. 1985) (sale of goods)