The Managing Partner, Michael Dorazio, Jr., has more than 35 years experience as a successful lawyer and businessman in a wide range of endeavors.

The vast breadth of Mr. Dorazio’s experience as a real estate lawyer is virtually all-encompassing. As shown on his resume, his legal experience ranges from providing legal and business advice to some of the largest and most successful real estate businesses in the country, including developers, contractors, syndicators, brokerage organizations and property managers, regarding all phases of the real estate industry, to teaching advanced real estate law as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, to Lecturer to attorneys at various California Continuing Education of the Bar programs regarding real estate sales and financing transactions.

Mr. Dorazio’s immense experience as a real estate lawyer is perhaps only matched by his experience as a real estate executive. As the President or Executive Vice President of numerous affiliated companies doing business as Continental American Properties (“ConAm”), one of the largest real estate management, development and syndication companies in the country, he had direct responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the ConAm companies, with more than 1,000 employees at offices throughout the United States. He was involved in structuring and negotiating numerous public syndications utilizing Wall Street brokerage firms, and was responsible for the structuring and negotiation of numerous financing packages collateralized by real estate. In performing his duties, he worked closely with various investors, borrowers, lenders, governmental agencies, boards of directors, associations, law and accounting firms, developers, real estate brokers and securities brokers.

As Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pioneer Liquidating Corporation (“Pioneer”), Mr. Dorazio directed the operations of this liquidating company for a highly complex real estate loan investment company with more than 2,800 investors who had invested approximately $225,000,000 in real estate partnerships and pool mortgage loans. Pioneer’s portfolio included resorts, hotels, office buildings, undeveloped land, nursing homes, single-family and multi-family residential, commercial and industrial properties, as well as tens of millions of dollars in promissory notes secured by trust deeds. At Pioneer, Mr. Dorazio was responsible for restructuring tens of millions of dollars in loans and managing and selling dozens of foreclosed real estate properties.

Mr. Dorazio’s wide-ranging experience with business, corporate, financial and securities matters began more than 35 years ago. Having been selected for the United States Attorney General’s Honors Program out of law school, he investigated and analyzed mergers, acquisitions and anti-competitive activities throughout the United States and challenged them in court where appropriate. Since first entering the private practice of law in 1969, his immeasurable experience ranges from many years of rendering legal and business advice to clients in forming business entities and structuring and negotiating complex business transactions across the United States and throughout the world to his own business experience in acquiring and operating domestic and foreign businesses.

As reflected on his resume, his experience over the years has included representing clients in innumerable business, corporate, securities, finance, professional services, pension and profit-sharing, litigation, bankruptcy and estate matters. Mr. Dorazio’s business experience also includes being a sole or part owner of various foreign and domestic business enterprises and investment opportunities, acting as general contractor for the development of a fifty-acre high-tech luxury ranch, breeding laboratory and executive residence in Rancho Santa Fe, California, and being a longtime investor. He also has served on the board of directors of numerous organizations, including a national bank.

Mr. Dorazio’s far-flung international experience includes representing clients in foreign mergers and acquisitions and in structuring and negotiating highly complex international joint venture agreements for manufacturing, distribution, and import/export of various products, from Japan to the United Kingdom, as well as his own business experience in acquiring and operating foreign businesses engaged in manufacturing, distributing and importing/exporting various products, from Australia to Spain. He also has represented numerous foreign clients in their dealings in the United States.

As also reflected in his resume, Mr. Dorazio’s litigation experience ranges from serving as a Trial Attorney with the Special Trial Section of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in the ‘60's to his role as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer at Pioneer Liquidating Corporation in the ‘90's. At Pioneer, Mr. Dorazio personally directed more than 200 lawsuits, in all phases from discovery and motion practice through trial and appeal, and supervised the preparation of litigation reports and budgets. He actively participated in dozens of settlement conferences with judges, magistrates, retired judges, and attorneys, and negotiated settlements which resulted in millions of dollars recovered by Pioneer.

Mr. Dorazio’s incomparable experience spanning five decades gives the firm a unique perspective in providing legal and business advice to clients in a myriad of matters, as well as the ability to resolve highly complex issues.

T. Steven Gregor, a founding partner of Dorazio & Gregor LLP, brings a resume of heavy litigation experience to the firm, particularly in the areas of construction defect, personal injury, intellectual property and general business matters.

Mr. Gregor began his legal career while attending law school at California Western School of Law, located in San Diego, California. During his final year of law school, he clerked for Arkin & ElWardani, a civil litigation firm, which sparked his interest in becoming a trial attorney.

After earning his Juris Doctorate Degree and admission to the California Bar, Mr. Gregor was hired by an intellectual property and civil litigation firm located in North County, San Diego. Here, Mr. Gregor litigated a wide variety of cases involving patent, trademark and trade dress infringement, unfair competition, securities fraud, contractual and business disputes, defamation, construction, construction defect, bankruptcy and insurance coverage. He also handled numerous transactional matters in the areas of business and corporate law.

After several years of additional legal experience, Mr. Gregor was invited to join the firm of Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Ryan LLP, a highly reputable defense oriented civil litigation law firm based in San Diego, California. While with the Wingert firm, Mr. Gregor litigated many different types of cases under the guidance of some of the finest trial attorneys in the country. He also continued to develop his transactional work and negotiation skills.

Mr. Gregor’s legal knowledge and experience enable him to effectively handle a broad spectrum of litigation and non litigation matters for his clients. His primary practice areas at Dorazio & Gregor LLP are detailed in his resume.

As one of the founding partners of Dorazio & Gregor LLP, Michael James Dorazio brings a vast array of experience and knowledge to the firm. Michael J. Dorazio earned his degree of Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1995. While attending law school, he clerked for the law firm of Barnhorst, Schreiner and Goonan, located in downtown San Diego California, and attended to various business and civil litigation matters. Shortly after receiving his degree from the University of San Diego and passing the California bar, he relocated to the resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho, where he became an associate attorney at one of the oldest and most established law firms in that area, Kneeland, Korb, Collier and Legg.

Upon passing the Idaho state bar, he began his career handling a multitude of diverse matters that covered a wide spectrum of the legal profession. His legal experience includes real estate, business and corporate law, general civil litigation, criminal defense (as an independent contractor for the County public defender’s office) and family law (divorce, adoption, and domestic issues). Experienced in all these areas, he began to concentrate on real estate and business law, as well as civil litigation in those two areas.

Included in his experience is the representation of clients before governmental authorities such as city and county planning and zoning commissions, city councils and the county board of commissioners. He is heavily experienced in real estate development and transactional work, including several years of experience representing developers and general contractors from the conceptual stages of a project through completion. This experience includes the representation of clients involved in large scale residential and commercial development projects through all phases of development, such as the acquisition of real estate, financing, the subdivision, design review and other permit approval processes, construction, and the marketing and sale of the completed project.

Mr. Dorazio’s areas of practice also include a wide range of business and corporate matters. He is skilled in the representation of clients involved in the purchase and sale of business entities, including the transfer of real property, business assets and inventory, licenses and trademark rights. Further, he has extensive experience in the formation and dissolution of business entities to fit a particular client’s changing needs. His experience and skill in the area of business law includes the representation of clients in entity choice, employment matters, trademark and copyright matters, marketing and sales, and advising clients in the structuring, preparation and negotiation of contracts. His experience includes the handling of civil litigation matters related to these areas of law, as well as both mediation and arbitration of those types of cases.

Michael J. Dorazio’s experience includes the representation of real estate brokerage firms, real estate agents, title insurance companies and homeowners associations. His expertise in these areas includes litigating on behalf of homeowners associations, as well as representing and advising clients on liability matters, contractual rights, purchases and sales, homeowners association conduct and meetings, employment issues, partnership agreements and corporate matters, as well as civil litigation involving all aspects related thereto.

Michael J. Dorazio’s wide and diverse array of experience allow the firm to handle many of the difficult and challenging legal issues that clients may be confronted with in today’s complex and challenging business and legal environment.