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(858) 333-5220

Practice Areas:

Business and Real Property Disputes
Business Counseling
Consumer Finance Litigation
Trusts and Estates Litigation
Litigation & Appeals

Biography

Patrick Tira is a highly skilled attorney with a demonstrated history of resolving business and real property disputes. He also has extensive experience in creditor/debtor's rights, trade secret protection, shareholder disputes, and real estate finance.

Over the past ten years, Mr. Tira gained extensive experience first at a boutique law firm located in La Jolla, California and later as a partner with a national law firm largely based in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Tira is experienced in all stages of litigation, including motion practice, depositions and other discovery, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, trial, and appeal. Mr. Tira has recovered millions for his clients in judgments and arbitration awards, in addition to resolving most disputes with demurrers and motions to dismiss.

In addition to his success in the courtroom, Mr. Tira takes pride in assisting businesses and individuals to quickly resolve disputes and avoid litigation through effective sales contracts, purchase agreements, non-disclosure agreements, software license and development agreements, powers of attorney, shareholder agreements, promissory notes and security agreements, easement agreements, and employment contracts.

Mr. Tira is admitted to practice law in California, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and in the United States District Courts for the Southern, Central, Eastern, and Northern Districts of California.

Education

University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California
- J.D. - 2007
University of San Diego
- B.A., Political Science
- Honors: summa cum laude
- Honors: B.B.A., Real Estate Emphasis
- Honors: The Phi Beta Kappa Society

Bar Admissions

California
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court Southern District of California
U.S. District Court Central District of California
U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court Northern District of California

Professional Associations

Irish American Bar Association of San Diego, Board of Directors
La Jolla Bar Association
The Federalist Society
Association Of Business Trial Lawyers

Honors

SuperLawyers - 2022
SuperLawyers - Rising Stars - 2022

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9th Cir. Applies Calif’s Post-2021 Increased Homestead Exemption Amount in Determining Whether a Debtor May Avoid a Pre-2021 Lien

by patricktira | Dec 2, 2022 | Litigation

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a bankruptcy court’s application of California’s increased homestead exemption amount in determining whether a debtor may avoid a lien created in 2013. In so ruling, the Ninth Circuit held that bankruptcy courts must apply the state exemption law in effect on the filing date of the bankruptcy petition, rather than on the creation date of the lien.

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