William Donald Chapman

A friend of mine who is also an attorney helped me set up an LLC. This involved creating the website, finding key employees, handling communications, providing technical support, assisting in creating a training program and various other tasks, as well as drafting legal documents for the company. In ...exchange, the company agreed to compensate this attorney for these past services by paying him flat fee for e-commerce sales on the company website and agreed to pay him 10% of the equity upon the sale of the company. After about 5 years, this attorney began making demands and questioning his compensation even though he was given access to the books and all of the books confirmed what he was owed. Then, I received a letter from an attorney representing this person requesting a termination of the relationship and claiming damages for any future earnings of the company based on the contract. She demanded that I preserve all evidence relating to the dispute and that we engage in mediation within 60 days of the date of her letter. Because this (former) friend is an attorney and now he had hired an attorney to represent him, I felt very intimidated and concerned that I was going to be involved in an expensive legal dispute and potentially lose 10% of my interest in the company and have an obligation to continue paying this individual compensation indefinitely. I searched for and found a top-notch business litigation attorney, Bill Chapman, to represent me in this dispute. Bill immediately wrote a letter back to the attorney refuting all of her allegations and turning the tables on my lawyer friend. Bill argued that because he is an attorney he has a heightened duty to me and my business and he failed to comply with all of his ethical obligations before entering into a business transaction with his client, me and my company. My business partner and his attorney obviously could see that they were in over their head so my business partner hired a big firm lawyer from Northern California to do battle with Bill. This big firm lawyer wrote a lengthy letter to Bill trying to fight back and demand all of the compensation plus a 10% equity interest in compensation for services rendered in the past and future. Again, Bill wasted no time firing back with a very aggressive letter. Next, the big firm lawyer called Bill on the phone and basically said they were giving in. In the end, Bill got me a “walk away,” which means that I was able to get rid of my former partner without paying him one penny of equity or any of the past or future compensation that he was demanding. If you have any type of a business dispute especially if the dispute is getting nasty, I highly recommend you give Bill Chapman a call and get him to take on your case. He is very friendly with his clients and professional with the opposing attorney but he is relentlessly aggressive in his advocacy for his clients. I cannot recommend Bill highly enough for your business needs.

In January 2018 I was sued for a breach of a $100,000 promissory note which I did not sign. I asked a friend of the family who is a lawyer for a referral to a lawyer that would be a real “pitbull.” He told me that the lawyer I wanted to hire was Attorney Bill Chapman. Attorney Chapman took an imme...diate personal interest in my case and dug into the case to develop a defense strategy. At the trial I watched him battle all day long in the courtroom representing my interests. Even the judge showed attorney Chapman a lot of respect, so I felt completely protected and well represented. The judge ruled that Attorney Chapman had proved that I was not liable and did not owe a single penny. I will always be grateful to Attorney Chapman for fighting hard on my behalf and winning my case. I highly recommend him to anyone who has a tough case they need to win.