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Accomplished Legal Counselors and Trial Attorneys

We formed Endeman, Lincoln, Turek & Heater, LLP in 1987 with the goal of combining the personal attention available only in a smaller law firm with the legal knowledge and skill required to handle the most sophisticated legal work. A mid-sized law firm with low overhead costs, we are more agile and cost-efficient than larger firms.

We have a general civil trial and transactional practice, with a particular focus on business law and litigation, condemnation, regulatory takings, public agency law, mediation, appeals, and manufactured housing and mobilehome law. Located in downtown San Diego, our lawyers practice throughout California.

Our clients are typically individuals but also include corporations, small start-up companies, counties and cities, medical practices, real estate developers and homeowners associations.

Your Success is Our Success

If matters cannot be resolved through counseling or negotiation, we routinely handle cases ranging from arbitration to trials and appeals in state and federal courts in the State of California - including the United States Supreme Court. In addition to handling large complex matters, we are uniquely positioned to represent individuals and property and business owners in smaller cases that larger law firms cannot efficiently handle.

No matter the complexity or size of your matter, we will immediately give it the personal attention it deserves. Our experienced attorneys believe the practice of law is a noble calling and are dedicated to winning justice for clients. We realize that we are only as good as our clients say we are. We want to earn your business.

To discuss your legal issue, please contact an attorney at Endeman, Lincoln, Turek & Heater, LLP today.

We represented a non-profit organization which developed 116 low income rental townhomes and a six story office building in the City Heights neighborhood in San Diego. Soon after completion the occupants began to experience water intrusion and mechanical problems. We brought suit against the general contractor and architect for construction defects. The defendants claimed our client's damages were in the range of $4 million or less. The matter settled during trial for $11,375,000.

We represented 70 residents against the park owner who tried to illegally remove the residents from the park so that he could develop the property as a commercial shopping center. The owner tried to force the residents out by failing to maintain the park and closing the common area facilities at the park. When the residents tried to sell their homes, the park owner refused to allow the homes to remain in the park. A jury awarded $11,700,000 to the residents. The verdict was reduced by the trial judge and a judgment was entered against the defendants in the amount of $9,917,717.

San Diego Gas & Electric condemned a permanent power line easement over the Stonebridge community in Scripps Ranch which was to replace a temporary easement set to expire. SDG&E initially offered the Stonebridge developers $759,000 for the easement. We were then retained and demonstrated the substantial value of the property interests being condemned and the damages that resulted to the remaining property. We obtained a $10,650,000 in settlement before trial on behalf of the property owner developers.

We represented a group of industrial property and business owners who alleged that the County of Riverside had fraudulently induced them to enter into a contract to support the formation of a Mello-Roos district, and then breached that contract by not providing all the promised infrastructure improvements. After a six week trial, obtained a $3.9 million jury verdict based on the jury's finding of fraud and breach of contract.

We represented a City and Water Company in a complex water/power case involving not only Indian water rights but also the first contested Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hydroelectric project re-licensing case. See also Public Law 100-675,102 Stat. 4000 (1988) and amendments. (Firm members also participated in the drafting of federal legislation designed to settle thirty-year dispute over rights to the San Luis Rey River.)

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