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Candice Stoddard brings over 35 years of legal expertise to her private practice, specializing in Mediation, Real Estate Law, and Plaintiff Personal Injury. Her focus spans a range of real estate matters, including purchase and sale contract disputes, partition, quiet title, fraud/non-disclosure, wrongful foreclosure, joint ownership conflicts, and construction defects. Additionally, Ms. Stoddard adeptly navigates plaintiff personal injury cases, with a particular emphasis on financial elder abuse, undue influence, and capacity issues. Her extensive experience positions her as a skilled mediator and advocate across these specialized areas of law.After earning her undergraduate degree from Drake University in Des Moines, IA, Ms. Stoddard pursued her legal education at John F. Kennedy Law School, graduating as the top student in her class. During this period, she worked as a licensed private investigator and held a real estate agent's license. Admitted to the California Bar in 1979, Ms. Stoddard's commitment to legal education continued post-graduation, with a decade-long tenure as a faculty member at John F. Kennedy Law School.

Sheldon and Mankin has a long-standing reputation in Walnut Creek, CA, with Robert Sheldon retiring on July 18, 2023. After this transition, Peter Mankin continues to provide legal services through the Law Office of Peter A. Mankin and Mankin Mediation Services, shifting focus from litigation to mediation and arbitration. Along with Peter Mankin, Sandra Lowenstein remains an integral part of the firm, offering her services for legal matters. Together, they maintain a commitment to real estate and business transactional issues while moving towards alternative dispute resolution methods. Generated from the website

McNamara, Ney, Beatty, Slattery, Borges & Ambacher LLP was originally founded in 1954 by Daniel McNamara and William Channell in response to a need for a defense litigation firm in the burgeoning Contra Costa County corridor. Walnut Creek has since emerged as the hub for business and law in Contra Costa County.Upon William Channell's recruitment to a Superior Court judgeship in 1970, and his subsequent elevation to the California Court of Appeal of the First Appellate District in 1983, Daniel McNamara continued to guide the firm into one of the leading independent defense litigation practices in the region.In 1988, the firm established a second office in Fairfield to better serve our clients and to meet an increasing demand for high-quality legal representation in Solano County. As of mid-2005, the firm has opened a third office in Tracy for the purposes of both better servicing its existing San Joaquin County and Stanislaus County clients and to Serve the legal needs of the growing Central Valley.The firm primarily serves Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Solano, Napa, Sonoma and Sacramento counties, enjoying long-standing relationships with a roster of both regional and national clients.Since its inception in 1954, McNamara, Ney, Beatty, Slattery, Borges & Ambacher LLP has become one of the largest and most respected defense litigation practices in Northern California. The firm's success can be attributed to the fact that each of the firm's 60 lawyers maintains an intense dedication to our founding principles.Mr. McNamara and Mr. Channell established an absolute commitment to legal services of the highest caliber and a tradition of aggressive litigation. Today, our staff remains whole-heartedly devoted to upholding the standard of hard work and client loyalty introduced by our founders and this is reflected by a record of unsurpassed expertise.McNamara, Ney, Beatty, Slattery, Borges & Ambacher LLP specializes in civil litigation, with an emphasis on insurance defense in state, federal, and appellate courts in the State of California. Our civil litigation defense expertise extends to construction defect, real estate, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability and business tort work.The strong diversity of our attorneys has enabled the firm to expand its practice into general business and real estate transactional law, business and real estate litigation, estate planning, probate, sexual/racial discrimination and employment law.