ELIZABETH C. GIANOLA

Shareholder
E-mail: gianola@horanlegal.com
Phone: (831) 373-4131
Fax: (831) 373-8302

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Ms. Gianola's practice encompasses all facets of civil litigation from inception to negotiated resolution to trial with an emphasis on the areas of real estate litigation, business litigation, and intellectual property litigation. She represents clients before both federal and state courts and before administrative tribunals. She has also authored appellate briefs and argued before both federal and state appellate courts.

Representative Experience:

• Representation of developers, builders, commercial and residential landlords and tenants, and corporations in disputes involving commercial and residential leases, land development, and construction contracts.
• Representation of general contractors and subcontractors in litigating and arbitrating construction disputes.
• Representation of business owners in trademark infringement matters.
• Representation of landowners in easement disputes.
• Representation of a governmental agency in a $40 million development project.
• Defense of a non-profit school in a lawsuit to adjudicate rights to groundwater in a California coastal basin.
• Defense of an aircraft manufacturer in a lawsuit to determine ownership of an aircraft type design.
• Representation of an agricultural producer and distributor in a lawsuit for breach of a sales contract for a patent.

In addition to her practice, Ms. Gianola has published and lectured on international comparative land use issues and is a visiting scholar of the University of California, Berkeley. She served as Vice Chair of the Executive Committee, Real Property Law Section, of the California Bar and legal counsel and Member of the Board of Trustees for the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay area. She has provided pro bono legal services for the Lawyers' Committee for the Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Education

• Universite de Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, PhD. in Law, highest honors, 1998
• University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D., 1989
• University of California, Berkeley, B.S., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1986

Admissions

• State of California, 1989
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,
  1989; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1989

Affiliations

• The State Bar of California (Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section, 1999-2000 (Member), 2001-2202 (Vice-Chair)
• Monterey County Bar Association
• American Bar Association (Litigation and Real Property Sections)

Publications and Lectures

• Land Tenure Security, Socio-Economic Development and the Force of Law (L'Harmattan Editions, Paris 2000)
• Lecturer, Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris, 1995-1997

Languages

• French