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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

removal

9th Cir. Holds Only Defendants May Remove an Action to Federal Court; Unnamed Real Party in Interest Cannot Remove Action; Splits With 2nd Cir.

by rohan.m@thomsonreuters.com | Jan 25, 2022 | Litigation

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held that the federal removal statute authorizes only a “defendant or the defendants” to remove an action to federal court. The Ninth Circuit reversed a District Court’s order denying a borrower’s motion to remand, after an unnamed Trustee removed the action to federal court on behalf of a defendant Trust. In so ruling, the Ninth Circuit held that because an unnamed party removed the case, the District Court should have remanded it instead of retaining jurisdiction.

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