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Ms. Simon represents clients with their commercial real estate purchases, sales, leases, financing, and HOA and neighbor disputes.
For nearly a decade, Ms. Simon has been specializing in commercial real estate transactions and litigation, title issues, foreclosure, bankruptcy proceedings, common interest development (HOAs), acquisition/disposition, and leasing. She also has trial experience and has litigated enforcement of contract, receivership, and bankruptcy adversary proceedings.
Drawing upon her real estate litigation background, Ms. Simon is well-versed at pinpointing and mitigating potential risks in contracts, and setting a strategy for resolving conflicts that best matches with the client’s tolerance for risk.
Prior to founding Strata Legal, she represented major financial institutions and mid-sized regional banks at a boutique law firm.
Ms. Simon earned her Juris Doctorate degree with a Business Law Certification from the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and was admitted to the California State Bar in 2009. She graduated from Scripps College with honors in Politics and International Relations with a minor in Chinese, and studied Chinese at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. She began her legal advocacy work in the area of racial profiling and religious protections at the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus.
Originally from Hong Kong, Ms. Simon is fluent in Cantonese, and conversant in Mandarin.
Ms. Simon is the past President of the Asian Business League of San Francisco. She is currently a member of the Contra Costa County Bar Association and belongs to its Solo Practice and Small Firm, Women, and Real Estate sections.
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2950 Buskirk Ave. Ste. 300, Walnut Creek, CA, 94597
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Posted by Dongxiu | September 19, 2013
Highly Recommend
Having known Celine for over 9 years, I can confidently say that she is very knowledgeable on a variety of legal matters, and possesses excellent critical thinking and negotiation skills. I hired Celine on a personal property matter, and she handled it with a lot of professionalism and fairness, and...
"I have known Celine Simon since law school. She is dilligent, professional, and a bull dog on debt collection case. She has a tremendous focus on the client's goals for the litigation. I highly recommend her."
"Celine is outside counsel for the bank that I am inhouse counsel at. We use nearly 40 different law firms throughout the state so I am able to compare the services and practices of many different law firms. I believe Celine and her firm have given us excellent service and are among the best in terms of client service, fees, and quality of representation. Celine is competent and well versed in bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights issues."
Estate planning lawyer
2006
Best Brief in Moot Court, USF School of Law
2014 - Present
Attorney at Law, Strata Legal
2013 - 2015
General Counsel, Asian Business League
2009 - 2009
Law Clerk, Asian Law Caucus
2009 - 2014
Associate, French & Lyon
2013 - Present
Asian Business LeagueBoard Member
2013 - Present
Association of Asian American BankersMember
2013 - Present
Asian American Bar AssociationMember
2009 - Present
Bar Association of San FranciscoMember
2009
JD - Juris Doctor
N/A
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Cantonese
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