In addition to the Santa Barbara office, serving Santa Barbara, Goleta, Isla Vista, Carpinteria, and Ventura County, the firm has a branch office in Santa Maria which primarily serves Santa Maria, Lompoc, Santa Ynez, Solvang, Buellton, Los Olivos, Guadalupe, Orcutt as well as, San Luis Obispo County. Actual cases take the members of the firm to the Superior Courts throughout the state of California. Federal cases are handled in the federal courts located in the four Districts of California, headquartered in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Sacramento. Appeals are handled in the state Courts of Appeal throughout California, as well as the California Supreme Court and, for federal cases, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Selected cases are handled in other state and federal districts outside of California including the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and D.C. Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
