California Law Firm
Experienced | Flexible | Innovative
California Law Firm focuses on business and corporate matters, litigation and data privacy and cybersecurity matters.
We Are Experienced Attorneys
With years of experience in business law, litigation, preventative law, Internet and data privacy and cybersecurity matters, clients can benefit from our specific capabilities. Do not be confused by our size as we deliver big firm results. Our experienced attorneys and staff are committed to providing our clients with the highest-quality and most cost-effective legal services by emphasizing teamwork, creativity and responsiveness.
Our Clients Always Come First: One-on-One Attention and Strong Client Relationships
Our creative atmosphere is focused on specific areas of law, which allows us to be more selective when taking on clients. Our goal is to be an instrumental part of every client’s success. Our strong commitment to clients makes us more than just a group of lawyers. We are distinguished by our client relationships and proven results. For this reason, we approach each challenge as if it was our own, providing the same timely and innovative solutions we expect from our own advisors and advocates.
We Provide Flexible Legal Fee Structures
Our philosophy and approach to matters allows us to satisfy a client’s legal needs, and also their economic concerns. We approach each matter proactively which ensures the best possible outcome, delivered in a timely and cost conscious manner. As a smaller firm generally, we are flexibility with our fees and offer alternative fee structures.
We are Innovative and Use Technology Enhanced Services
We always seek insight into a client’s goal, which allows us to continually develop creative and result oriented solutions. We are not bogged down by time-consuming administrative tasks required to run a law firm but rather, use the right technology and tools to allow us to cut down significantly on manual administrative work and focus on delivering results to clients.
Flexible Work Environment
We have embraced the benefits of flexibility and experienced improvements in our productivity, engagement, and sustained quality of services offered to clients, which is why established a virtual remote work model, which allows our attorneys and staff to assist clients with their legal issues within a better business model.
Practice Areas
We provide comprehensive legal services to individuals, for profit and non-profit corporations, businesses and unincorporated associations, among others. We have developed the expertise necessary to effectively represent clients before governmental agencies, in the corporate boardroom and in the traditional forum – the courtroom.
Businesses, whether corporations, LLCs or other business entities, face many legal challenges on a regular basis. Our business attorneys understand these challenges and work with each client to meet their legal needs. We appreciate the realities of the business world because we too navigate that world every day, experiencing many of the same challenges as clients do. Whether a sole-proprietor, small or family owned business, or a large global organization, our business attorneys guide each client in understanding and solving the complex legal issues involved in business operations. We offer and fashion workable solutions for each unique need.
When you or your company is involved in litigation, you need experienced, knowledgeable lawyers with credibility and the respect of the court handling your case. It is important for your lawyer to understand your position, work in your best interest, and have your confidence so you can focus on other matters important to your business and your life. Our attorneys have a proven track record of success in expertly managing your litigation, so you can manage your life. We have proven experience in the courtroom and in alternative dispute resolution arenas. We provide full-service litigation support services to consult with or assist you in all aspects of litigation strategy and trial
We also understand successful litigation requires balancing risk, investment, and reward. We take a proactive approach in order to achieve success. We will keep you apprised of strategies and alternatives and seek your input on matters requiring business and personal decisions. Whether the matter involves your business or you personally, our lawyers have the extensive experience, business acumen and litigation strategies to produce timely, and effective results.
We are positioned to counsel clients on preparing for and responding to Internet, data privacy and cybersecurity challenges. The legal issues facing online businesses and their and data privacy and cybersecurity matters is multi-dimensional and oftentimes complex. As some point in a business lifecycle, companies should prepare for an inevitable legal experience–a data incident or breach or worse. Our attorneys are deeply experienced to assist clients with rolling out preventative law measures to reduce data breaches, as well as audits and programs to protect data assets and limit operational interruptions. We regularly counsel businesses on how to best protect their data and consumer personal information in compliance with. the multitude of national and global data privacy laws. We can help you navigate the treacherous and highly technical laws to avoid significant liability.
In the corporate arena our services include:
- Privacy strategy and program development
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Data Protection Impact Assessments
- Privacy program management
- Development of policies and procedures
- Analysis and drafting of transactional, contracts and third-party agreements
- Review and analysis of contractual privacy and data protection
- Due diligence and support during M&A and related transactions
- Review, drafting and updating of contracts with third parties to ensure compliance with data privacy laws and third-party adherence to data privacy laws
In litigation our services include:
- Evaluation of potential claims
- Assessment of liability risks
- Preparation and implementation of subpoena response policies
- Evaluation of contract disputes
- Client counseling on appropriate responses to regulatory activities
- Providing litigation services in the event of a data breach, business email compromise, lawsuit and/or privacy enforcement agency action
- Prosecuting and defending against civil suits and enforcement actions due to privacy and cybersecurity issues
Managing Partner
Christopher Gonzalez is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of California Law Firm, A Prof. Law Corp., where for 25+ years he has provided professional counsel in areas of business and corporate law, litigation Internet and data privacy and cybersecurity matters. After attaining a long sought after family dream of being the first in his family lineage to attend and graduate from college, he focused on a career to become a lawyer.
Christopher brings unique practical perspectives to clients’ legal needs, including the importance facilitation rather than hinderance. He provides a combination of broad business and corporate and litigation, experience with in-depth knowledge and expertise on a variety of legal issues. He works with individuals and all types of business ventures to assist in launching their models, from a ground floor entity to fully functioning and sustainable enterprises. His clientele ranges from individuals, start-up ventures and privately held to non-profit and international publicly traded entities.
Christopher is a proficient and effective business lawyer and litigator. He also remains on top of the cutting-edge issues developing with the growth of technology businesses and the Internet world. He has developed skills from numerous disciplines, molding them into bona fide status as an Internet and technology practitioner.
Christopher’s commitment to causes outside of the law is equally significant as are his legal skills. He regularly volunteers his time to organizations that deal with the betterment, encouragement and instillment of life-enhancing values in children.