GREGORY S. NERLAND
1981 N. Broadway, Suite 320
Walnut
Creek, California 94596
(925) 979-5661 (925) 947-4348
(fax)
gnerland@gmail.com (e-mail)
EMPLOYMENT
Akawie & LaPietra Walnut Creek, California
Attorney; Of Counsel
A business and real estate consulting and litigation practice.
I have experience negotiating and drafting a wide variety of contracts, including commercial leases, partnership agreements, real estate sales agreements, and software licensing and marketing agreements.
I have tried cases arising out of construction contract disputes, broker liability, engineering negligence, and land-use. I have litigated cases arising under the Lanham Act, the California Subdivision Map Act, and the Stark/Speier anti-referral statutes.
I am certified as a fee arbitrator by the State Bar of California and Contra Costa County.
I mediate for the Contra Costa County Superior Court.
EDUCATION
University of California -- Hastings College
of the Law
San Francisco,
California
Juris Doctor, cum laude, May 1989.
Order of the
Coif; Thurston Society.
Dartmouth College
Hanover,
New Hampshire
Bachelor of Arts, Classics, June 1986.
ADMISSIONS TO COURT
California State Bar, 1989.
United States District
Court, Northern District, 1989.
United States Court of Appeal,
Ninth Circuit, 1989.
United States District Court, Eastern
District, 1991.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Walnut Creek
Library Foundation, Walnut
Creek, California
Board of Directors --
2014-present.
Center for
the Education of the Infant
Deaf, Berkeley, California
Board of
Directors -- 1992-2000; President 1998-1999.
Smiles Day
School, Oakland, California
Board of
Directors -- 2000-present.
Parkmead Active
Learning School, Walnut Creek,
California
Board of Directors -- 2004-2006.