FARRIMOND LAW OFFICES - Key Persons
James S. Monroe is an AV Preeminent rated civil trial and bankruptcy attorney with over 30 years of experience.
Jim has more than 30 years experience in handling bankruptcies, workouts, restructurings, finance, creditors' rights and commercial litigation. His bankruptcy experience extends to all aspects of representing both debtors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings under Chapters 11, 7 and 13, including filing and prosecuting such cases on behalf of corporate and individual debtors, post-petition financing, cash collateral issues, asset sales, valuation disputes, relief from automatic stay, executory contracts and unexpired leases, negotiating plans and plan confirmation proceedings, claims allowance and disallowance, and adversary proceedings. Mr. Monroe has extensive experience in restructuring and workouts of both secured and unsecured loans outside of bankruptcy, including the representation of both creditors and debtors in negotiating and implementing forbearance agreements, modification agreements, collateral liquidation arrangements, downsizing plans, intercreditor agreements, recapitalizations, and collateral additions. Mr. Monroe also has extensive experience representing financial institutions and other creditors in creditors' rights litigation and in the enforcement of creditor remedies.
Mr. Monroe is an experienced litigator and trial attorney with a reputation for high quality work in complex commercial cases. He has been lead counsel in numerous cases in state and federal courts on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. He has represented financial institutions and other creditors in defense litigation involving claims asserted against creditors, and many other business clients in a wide range of commercial litigation matters. Mr. Monroe has also briefed and argued many appeals before California Courts of Appeal, the California Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit.
Prior to becoming of counsel to Farrimond Law Offices, Mr. Monroe was a litigation associate and partner in the creditors' rights and bankruptcy group of Lillick & Charles LLP for eleven years, a partner in the bankruptcy group of Nixon Peabody LLP for eight years, and formed Monroe Law Firm in 2008.
Jonathan Krotinger is an AV Preeminent rated attorney with over 30 years of experience.
Jonathan (Jon) Krotinger received a bachelor's degree in History and Literature (1976, with honors) and a law degree (1980) from Harvard University, where he won the Mark DeWolfe Howe Prize in 1975. In 1980 and 1981 Mr. Krotinger was law clerk to U.S. District Judge (now U.S. Circuit Judge) Susan H. Black in Jacksonville, Florida. He has practiced law in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1981, with both large and small law firms. From 1985 until 2006, he was Senior Attorney for AT&T Corporation, where he received several law department and business awards, including the AT&T Circle of Excellence Award. He is a member of the State Bars of California and Florida and is admitted to practice in all federal courts in California as well as the District of Colorado. He has been rated "AV" by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory since 1999.
Mr. Krotinger's practice includes business litigation, business transactions, and alternative dispute resolution. He has litigated numerous telecommunications, real estate, contract, construction, consumer, tort and general business law cases. He has also negotiated complex business contracts, commercial leases and other real estate transactions. As an arbitrator, Mr. Krotinger has conducted more than 500 hours of arbitration proceedings, including securities arbitrations, commercial arbitrations, and attorney fee dispute arbitrations.
Mr. Krotinger has served on the boards of several San Francisco Bay Area non-profit organizations, most recently as President of the Board of Slide Ranch, an environmental education center in Marin County. He is also a prize-winning landscape photographer whose work has appeared in numerous shows and is held in private art collections across the country. An avid cyclist, he rides 100 miles a week through the hills of the Bay Area.
Randall S. Farrimond is an AV Preeminent rated civil trial attorney with over 30 years of experience.
Randy litigates matters involving commercial torts and contracts, technology, intellectual property, media, aviation, and debtor and creditor's rights. He has been for fifteen years an adjunct professor at the Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco where he teaches a course on pretrial litigation practice and lectures on Internet law. He also has taught in the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program at Stanford Law School and in the Trial Advocacy Program at the University of San Francisco Law School.
Before forming Farrimond Law Offices, Mr. Farrimond, was a litigation partner for ten years and a litigation associate for seven years at Lillick & Charles LLP (now Nixon, Peabody LLP), where he was actively involved in firm management, including several years service on the firm's management committee. He was also a litigation partner for three years at Steinhart & Falconer LLP (now DLA Piper) where he focused on intellectual property, media and aviation litigation. He has a strong background in technology and science, having obtained a Masters Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, before obtaining his law degree from Stanford University. He makes use of this expertise in his day to day litigation practice, particularly when focusing on matters involving science, technology, engineering, media and the Internet. Mr. Farrimond and the other attorneys at Farrimond Law Offices also strive to use technology intelligently in order to deliver the highest quality client services at a reasonable cost.
Mr. Farrimond served as a board member and former President of Eldergivers, a nonprofit corporation which trains volunteers to visit and to conduct art classes for the isolated elderly in the San Francisco Bay Area.