• College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, B.A., Philosophy, 1981
• McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, J.D., 1986 (Pacific Law Journal)
The Law Offices of A. Peter Rausch, Jr.
A Professional Corporation
Since January 1993, THE LAW OFFICES OF A. PETER RAUSCH, JR. has provided general legal counseling to businesses and high net worth individuals throughout California and across the United States. The firm practices in a wide variety of state and federal administrative settings, in the California state trial and appellate courts, and in the United States District Courts, Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Peter Rausch is an AV rated Super Lawyer Honoree with extensive experience in complex business and commercial litigation, intellectual property, and general business counseling. He is is widely known and highly regarded for his knowledge and practical use of advanced technologies to help afford clients a high quality and professional level of representation and work product that is typically thought to be available only from large firms and at great expense. The firm maintains collaborative working relationships with a select and diverse team of professionals, attorney specialists and experts which allows Mr. Rausch to bring a team to manage and focus client's projects.
Mr. Rausch has cultivated a unique perspective on business and law from which he successfully delivers highly customized corporate and business counsel throughout all phases of client's business development and operations. Clients benefit from an experienced focus on the global and strategic management of their legal affairs which both anticipates and advances client interests in dispute avoidance, when possible, while also affording effective and successful dispute resolution when necessary.
Representation covers a wide range of services, including start-up business entity selection and formation and planning; negotiating and implementing various business transactions; winding down completed business operations and ventures; managing partner, employee, investor and creditor/debtor relationships; identifying and protecting intellectual property assets; designing wealth transfer and asset protection plans and developing and implementing skilled litigation and dispute resolution strategies. Mr. Rausch is skilled at counseling executive leadership and creating business and transactional strategies resistant to litigious interference. At the same time, he has numerous proven results in aggressively prosecuting and successfully defending client interests when litigation is the only alternative.
Our experience covers a wide range of business areas and industries including:
Agriculture, Commercial Manufacturing, Communication, Construction, Direct Sales and Marketing, Education, Entertainment and the Arts, Equipment Leasing, Health Care, Hospitality, Import/Export Sales, Internet Services, Investment Banking, Property Management, Publishing, Real Estate Investment and Development, Renewable Power, Software Development, Various Technologies, Transportation, Viticulture and Website Design & Development.The Firm maintains offices in Central California (Lodi, San Joaquin County), San Francisco and the Central Coast of California (Capitola, Santa Cruz County).
The Law Offices of A. Peter Rausch, Jr.
A Professional Corporation
Since January 1993, THE LAW OFFICES OF A. PETER RAUSCH, JR. has provided general legal counseling to businesses and high net worth individuals throughout California and across the United States. The firm practices in a wide variety of state and federal administrative settings, in the California state trial and appellate courts, and in the United States District Courts, Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Peter Rausch is an AV rated Super Lawyer Honoree with extensive experience in complex business and commercial litigation, intellectual property, and general business counseling. He is is widely known and highly regarded for his knowledge and practical use of advanced technologies to help afford clients a high quality and professional level of representation and work product that is typically thought to be available only from large firms and at great expense. The firm maintains collaborative working relationships with a select and diverse team of professionals, attorney specialists and experts which allows Mr. Rausch to bring a team to manage and focus client's projects.
Mr. Rausch has cultivated a unique perspective on business and law from which he successfully delivers highly customized corporate and business counsel throughout all phases of client's business development and operations. Clients benefit from an experienced focus on the global and strategic management of their legal affairs which both anticipates and advances client interests in dispute avoidance, when possible, while also affording effective and successful dispute resolution when necessary.
Representation covers a wide range of services, including start-up business entity selection and formation and planning; negotiating and implementing various business transactions; winding down completed business operations and ventures; managing partner, employee, investor and creditor/debtor relationships; identifying and protecting intellectual property assets; designing wealth transfer and asset protection plans and developing and implementing skilled litigation and dispute resolution strategies. Mr. Rausch is skilled at counseling executive leadership and creating business and transactional strategies resistant to litigious interference. At the same time, he has numerous proven results in aggressively prosecuting and successfully defending client interests when litigation is the only alternative.
Our experience covers a wide range of business areas and industries including:
Agriculture, Commercial Manufacturing, Communication, Construction, Direct Sales and Marketing, Education, Entertainment and the Arts, Equipment Leasing, Health Care, Hospitality, Import/Export Sales, Internet Services, Investment Banking, Property Management, Publishing, Real Estate Investment and Development, Renewable Power, Software Development, Various Technologies, Transportation, Viticulture and Website Design & Development.The Firm maintains offices in Central California (Lodi, San Joaquin County), San Francisco and the Central Coast of California (Capitola, Santa Cruz County).
The Law Offices of A. Peter Rausch, Jr.
A Professional Corporation
Since January 1993, THE LAW OFFICES OF A. PETER RAUSCH, JR. has provided general legal counseling to businesses and high net worth individuals throughout California and across the United States. The firm practices in a wide variety of state and federal administrative settings, in the California state trial and appellate courts, and in the United States District Courts, Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Peter Rausch is an AV rated Super Lawyer Honoree with extensive experience in complex business and commercial litigation, intellectual property, and general business counseling. He is is widely known and highly regarded for his knowledge and practical use of advanced technologies to help afford clients a high quality and professional level of representation and work product that is typically thought to be available only from large firms and at great expense. The firm maintains collaborative working relationships with a select and diverse team of professionals, attorney specialists and experts which allows Mr. Rausch to bring a team to manage and focus client's projects.
Mr. Rausch has cultivated a unique perspective on business and law from which he successfully delivers highly customized corporate and business counsel throughout all phases of client's business development and operations. Clients benefit from an experienced focus on the global and strategic management of their legal affairs which both anticipates and advances client interests in dispute avoidance, when possible, while also affording effective and successful dispute resolution when necessary.
Representation covers a wide range of services, including start-up business entity selection and formation and planning; negotiating and implementing various business transactions; winding down completed business operations and ventures; managing partner, employee, investor and creditor/debtor relationships; identifying and protecting intellectual property assets; designing wealth transfer and asset protection plans and developing and implementing skilled litigation and dispute resolution strategies. Mr. Rausch is skilled at counseling executive leadership and creating business and transactional strategies resistant to litigious interference. At the same time, he has numerous proven results in aggressively prosecuting and successfully defending client interests when litigation is the only alternative.
Our experience covers a wide range of business areas and industries including:
Agriculture, Commercial Manufacturing, Communication, Construction, Direct Sales and Marketing, Education, Entertainment and the Arts, Equipment Leasing, Health Care, Hospitality, Import/Export Sales, Internet Services, Investment Banking, Property Management, Publishing, Real Estate Investment and Development, Renewable Power, Software Development, Various Technologies, Transportation, Viticulture and Website Design & Development.The Firm maintains offices in Central California (Lodi, San Joaquin County), San Francisco and the Central Coast of California (Capitola, Santa Cruz County).
Attorney Profile
Education
Court Admissions
• California Supreme Court (1987)
• U.S. District Court, Eastern and Northern Districts of California (1987)
• U.S. District Court, Central District of California (1990)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (1990)
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (1992)
• U.S. Supreme Court (1992)
• U.S. District Court, District of Michigan (2000)
• U.S. District Court, District of Arizona (2003)
• U.S. District Court, District of Colorado (2004)
• Hawaii Supreme Court (2006) Pro Hac Vice
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida (2023) Pro Hac Vice
Published Decisions
• Turbinator v. Superior Count, (1995) 33 Cal. App. 4th 443
• In Re Bi Coastal Corporation, (1990) 124 B.R. 60
Memberships
• California State Bar
• American Bar Association
• San Joaquin County Bar Association
• San Francisco County Bar Association
• Santa Cruz County Bar Association
Teaching, Writing & Public Service
Mr. Rausch is a regular guest lecturer at the University of the Pacific, School of Business, presenting to undergraduate and MBA classes on legal topics involving business formation and entity selection, corporate governance and intellectual property issues. He is the author of "Technology in Small Firm Practice," California Lawyer, (Nov. 1997) and occasionally presents continuing education seminars on the topic of law firm technology, automation and practice management.
Peter is trained as a small claims court judge pro tem with the San Joaquin County Superior Court and periodically presides over the Court's small claims calendar since 1998. He also serves on the San Joaquin County Superior Court Judicial Arbitration Panel and conducts arbitrations in the Court's ADR program. Peter has been retained privately by parties to conduct mediations and binding arbitration of civil disputes. In the fall of 2005 and spring 2007, he completed intensive and advanced professional mediation training and offers private mediation services to civil litigants embroiled in complex business and other general civil disputes.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mr. Rausch has served as a small claims court judge pro tem with the San Joaquin County Superior Court. He also serves on the San Joaquin County Superior Court Judicial Arbitration Panel and conducts mediation through the Court's ADR program. Mr. Rausch also acts as a Court ordered mediator for the California Court of Appeal, Third District, mediation program.
Mr. Rausch is a member of the United States District Court, Eastern District of California, Pro Bono Panel providing settlement conference representation to incarcerated plaintiffs in Section 1983 litigation.
Mr. Rausch is a Certified Arbitrator by the San Francisco Bar Association. He conducts private binding arbitration of civil disputes.
Attorney Profile
Education
• College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, B.A., Philosophy, 1981
• McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, J.D., 1986 (Pacific Law Journal)
Court Admissions
• California Supreme Court (1987)
• U.S. District Court, Eastern and Northern Districts of California (1987)
• U.S. District Court, Central District of California (1990)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (1990)
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (1992)
• U.S. Supreme Court (1992)
• U.S. District Court, District of Michigan (2000)
• U.S. District Court, District of Arizona (2003)
• U.S. District Court, District of Colorado (2004)
• Hawaii Supreme Court (2006) Pro Hac Vice
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida (2023) Pro Hac Vice
Published Decisions
• Turbinator v. Superior Count, (1995) 33 Cal. App. 4th 443
• In Re Bi Coastal Corporation, (1990) 124 B.R. 60
Memberships
• California State Bar
• American Bar Association
• San Joaquin County Bar Association
• San Francisco County Bar Association
• Santa Cruz County Bar Association
Teaching, Writing & Public Service
Mr. Rausch is a regular guest lecturer at the University of the Pacific, School of Business, presenting to undergraduate and MBA classes on legal topics involving business formation and entity selection, corporate governance and intellectual property issues. He is the author of "Technology in Small Firm Practice," California Lawyer, (Nov. 1997) and occasionally presents continuing education seminars on the topic of law firm technology, automation and practice management.
Peter is trained as a small claims court judge pro tem with the San Joaquin County Superior Court and periodically presides over the Court's small claims calendar since 1998. He also serves on the San Joaquin County Superior Court Judicial Arbitration Panel and conducts arbitrations in the Court's ADR program. Peter has been retained privately by parties to conduct mediations and binding arbitration of civil disputes. In the fall of 2005 and spring 2007, he completed intensive and advanced professional mediation training and offers private mediation services to civil litigants embroiled in complex business and other general civil disputes.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mr. Rausch has served as a small claims court judge pro tem with the San Joaquin County Superior Court. He also serves on the San Joaquin County Superior Court Judicial Arbitration Panel and conducts mediation through the Court's ADR program. Mr. Rausch also acts as a Court ordered mediator for the California Court of Appeal, Third District, mediation program.
Mr. Rausch is a member of the United States District Court, Eastern District of California, Pro Bono Panel providing settlement conference representation to incarcerated plaintiffs in Section 1983 litigation.
Mr. Rausch is a Certified Arbitrator by the San Francisco Bar Association. He conducts private binding arbitration of civil disputes.
Case Summaries & Practice Profile
Here are some of the kinds of matters that we handle:
Our clients include: Doctors, Lawyers, CPAs, Dentists, Chiropractors, Acupuncturists, Investment Bankers, Banks, Artists, Musicians, Car Dealerships, Manufacturers, Wine Makers, Wineries, Schools, Farmers, IT Professionals, Non-Profit Organizations, Engineers, Architects, Real Estate Developers, Contactors, Professional Cowboys, Renewable Power Companies.
• Breach of Contract and Fraud claims by Plaintiff Physicians against their former medical School. San Francisco County.
• Trademark infringement. United States District Court, San Francisco. Defended alleged infringement and asserted counter claims against the plaintiff. Obtained insurance coverage for client's defense costs and obtained a $250,000 net recovery at settlement conference.
• Wrongful death case involving a heart attack suffered in a neighbor's swimming pool. Settled for defendant's insurance policy limits. San Joaquin County.
• Slip and fall injury against a restaurant franchisee involving a defective sidewalk at the defendant's office premises. Settled for $150,000 at mediation. San Joaquin County.
• Defended an investment banking firm against debt collection claims for $2 Million brought by a major international bank on unpaid promissory notes. We developed lender liability counter claims against the bank for amounts in excess of the unpaid note balance and settled the case for mutual claim releases and zero cash paid by our client.
• Supervised and managed an investment banking firm's $50 million dollar equipment lease portfolio and coordinated the resolution of dozens of distressed asset workouts.
• Represented an investor with claims against a managing partner for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, theft and conversion and usurpation of corporate opportunity resulting from defendant's mishandling and self-dealing involving a multi-million-dollar housing development project. Obtained preliminary injunctive relief and removed and replaced the defendant manager. Marin County.
• Represented a large heavy equipment manufacturer in a trademark / trade dress infringement action filed in United States District Court, Sacramento. Secured temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction by stipulation with defendant. Case settled for significant payment to client and entry of a stipulated permanent injunction in client's favor.
• Prosecuted claims against dozens of investors in renewable power assets and filed claims against possessors of equipment pledged as collateral in a portfolio of over 150 promissory notes acquired by client. Obtained writ of possession after appeal and recovered the property. Case resulted in published opinion from Court of Appeal clarifying unsettled question regarding financing statements and security interests under the Uniform Commercial Code. We recovered several hundred thousand dollars net to client, plus possession of the equipment pledged to secure the notes. Riverside County.
• Regularly form new business entities and manage corporate governance businesses throughout California. Provided general and corporate counsel services for clients operating in a wide variety of business areas and industries.
• Regularly assist clients in researching, evaluating, clearing and registering trademarks and service marks, including representation in connection with opposition proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trials & Appeals Board (TTAB).
• Registration and enforcement (or defense) of copyright claims in original works and represent clients in both the prosecution and defense of infringement claims in United States District Courts.
• Trial of a family law dispute to judgment, upheld on appeal, securing an award of the family residence and highly valued, significant business assets, including a multi-million-dollar agri-business and 1000-acre agricultural real estate investment. San Joaquin County.
• Binding arbitration to judgment successfully defending a national mail order merchandising company against investment banker claims for millions of dollars in fees allegedly due under a contract to raise capital. American Arbitration Association, New York, NY.
• Coordinated and successfully managed an out of bankruptcy workout, liquidation, and dissolution of a public company with over $2 million dollars of debt and $2 plus million dollars of potential shareholder claims following a direct public offering (DPO). San Mateo.
• Prosecuted federal civil rights claims in United States District Court, Eastern District, California, on behalf of families of deceased victims in two separate wrongful death actions against police departments responsible for the shooting deaths of a minor and a young father. Obtained seven figure settlements in each case. (Stanislaus County)
• Manage insurance coverage issues and coordinate the defense of consumer remedies claims under the Song-Beverly Act and related federal law involving vehicle sales for car and recreation vehicle dealerships. (San Joaquin and Stanislaus County)
Our clients include: Doctors, Lawyers, CPAs, Dentists, Chiropractors, Acupuncturists, Investment Bankers, Banks, Artists, Musicians, Car Dealerships, Manufacturers, Wine Makers, Wineries, Schools, Farmers, IT Professionals, Non-Profit Organizations, Engineers, Architects, Real Estate Developers, Contactors, Professional Cowboys, Renewable Power Companies.
Case Summaries & Practice Profile
Here are some of the kinds of matters that we handle:
Our clients include: Doctors, Lawyers, CPAs, Dentists, Chiropractors, Acupuncturists, Investment Bankers, Banks, Artists, Musicians, Car Dealerships, Manufacturers, Wine Makers, Wineries, Schools, Farmers, IT Professionals, Non-Profit Organizations, Engineers, Architects, Real Estate Developers, Contactors, Professional Cowboys, Renewable Power Companies.
• Breach of Contract and Fraud claims by Plaintiff Physicians against their former medical School. San Francisco County.
• Trademark infringement. United States District Court, San Francisco. Defended alleged infringement and asserted counter claims against the plaintiff. Obtained insurance coverage for client's defense costs and obtained a $250,000 net recovery at settlement conference.
• Wrongful death case involving a heart attack suffered in a neighbor's swimming pool. Settled for defendant's insurance policy limits. San Joaquin County.
• Slip and fall injury against a restaurant franchisee involving a defective sidewalk at the defendant's office premises. Settled for $150,000 at mediation. San Joaquin County.
• Defended an investment banking firm against debt collection claims for $2 Million brought by a major international bank on unpaid promissory notes. We developed lender liability counter claims against the bank for amounts in excess of the unpaid note balance and settled the case for mutual claim releases and zero cash paid by our client.
• Supervised and managed an investment banking firm's $50 million dollar equipment lease portfolio and coordinated the resolution of dozens of distressed asset workouts.
• Represented an investor with claims against a managing partner for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, theft and conversion and usurpation of corporate opportunity resulting from defendant's mishandling and self-dealing involving a multi-million-dollar housing development project. Obtained preliminary injunctive relief and removed and replaced the defendant manager. Marin County.
• Represented a large heavy equipment manufacturer in a trademark / trade dress infringement action filed in United States District Court, Sacramento. Secured temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction by stipulation with defendant. Case settled for significant payment to client and entry of a stipulated permanent injunction in client's favor.
• Prosecuted claims against dozens of investors in renewable power assets and filed claims against possessors of equipment pledged as collateral in a portfolio of over 150 promissory notes acquired by client. Obtained writ of possession after appeal and recovered the property. Case resulted in published opinion from Court of Appeal clarifying unsettled question regarding financing statements and security interests under the Uniform Commercial Code. We recovered several hundred thousand dollars net to client, plus possession of the equipment pledged to secure the notes. Riverside County.
• Regularly form new business entities and manage corporate governance businesses throughout California. Provided general and corporate counsel services for clients operating in a wide variety of business areas and industries.
• Regularly assist clients in researching, evaluating, clearing and registering trademarks and service marks, including representation in connection with opposition proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trials & Appeals Board (TTAB).
• Registration and enforcement (or defense) of copyright claims in original works and represent clients in both the prosecution and defense of infringement claims in United States District Courts.
• Trial of a family law dispute to judgment, upheld on appeal, securing an award of the family residence and highly valued, significant business assets, including a multi-million-dollar agri-business and 1000-acre agricultural real estate investment. San Joaquin County.
• Binding arbitration to judgment successfully defending a national mail order merchandising company against investment banker claims for millions of dollars in fees allegedly due under a contract to raise capital. American Arbitration Association, New York, NY.
• Coordinated and successfully managed an out of bankruptcy workout, liquidation, and dissolution of a public company with over $2 million dollars of debt and $2 plus million dollars of potential shareholder claims following a direct public offering (DPO). San Mateo.
• Prosecuted federal civil rights claims in United States District Court, Eastern District, California, on behalf of families of deceased victims in two separate wrongful death actions against police departments responsible for the shooting deaths of a minor and a young father. Obtained seven figure settlements in each case. (Stanislaus County)
• Manage insurance coverage issues and coordinate the defense of consumer remedies claims under the Song-Beverly Act and related federal law involving vehicle sales for car and recreation vehicle dealerships. (San Joaquin and Stanislaus County)
Our clients include: Doctors, Lawyers, CPAs, Dentists, Chiropractors, Acupuncturists, Investment Bankers, Banks, Artists, Musicians, Car Dealerships, Manufacturers, Wine Makers, Wineries, Schools, Farmers, IT Professionals, Non-Profit Organizations, Engineers, Architects, Real Estate Developers, Contactors, Professional Cowboys, Renewable Power Companies.
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Central Coast Office
314 Capitola Ave
Capitola, CA 95010
San Francisco Office
490 Post Street, Suite 10
San Francisco, CA 94102
Central Valley Office
400 E. Kettleman Lane, Suite 20
Lodi, CA 95240
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By providing my phone number to the Law Office of A. Peter Rausch, Jr., I agree and acknowledge that the Law Office of A. Peter Rausch, Jr. may send text messages to my wireless phone number for any purpose. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency will vary, and you will be able to Opt-out by replying “STOP”. For more information on how your data will be handled, please see our privacy policy below:
Privacy Policy:
No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
Contact Us
Central Coast Office
314 Capitola Ave
Capitola, CA 95010
San Francisco Office
490 Post Street, Suite 10
San Francisco, CA 94102
Central Valley Office
400 E. Kettleman Lane, Suite 20
Lodi, CA 95240
Disclaimer:
By providing my phone number to the Law Office of A. Peter Rausch, Jr., I agree and acknowledge that the Law Office of A. Peter Rausch, Jr. may send text messages to my wireless phone number for any purpose. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency will vary, and you will be able to Opt-out by replying “STOP”. For more information on how your data will be handled, please see our privacy policy below:
Privacy Policy:
No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
By providing my phone number to the Law Office of A. Peter Rausch, Jr., I agree and acknowledge that the Law Office of A. Peter Rausch, Jr. may send text messages to my wireless phone number for any purpose. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency will vary, and you will be able to Opt-out by replying “STOP”. For more information on how your data will be handled, please see our privacy policy below:
Privacy Policy:
No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
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