Alex P. Moskovitz, Attorney at Law

Licenses

California Courts

Federal Circuit, N.D.C.A.

Registered U.S. Patent Attorney

Degrees

Bachelor’s, Neurobiology

Bachelor’s, Psychology

Juris Doctorate

I am a general practitioner who has experience in diverse areas of the law; however, I focus primarily on civil litigation and intellectual property. Information to educate the potential client on these primary areas can be found below.

Civil Litigation Intellectual Property

I consider practicing law as an opportunity to help others rather than just to make money. To that end, I offer a free initial consultation and affordable rates.

My practice involves pre-litigation work between private parties (intellectual property) and litigation (civil).

The goal of drafting pre-litigation documents is to explicitly and clearly embody your desires in the language of the contract, so that in the future, people will be less likely to sue you or your successors, and if they do sue, will be less likely to twist ambiguous or nonexistent terms to their advantage. Pre-litigation drafting allows for more control over the rules of the agreement and typically costs much less than litigation, so a well drafted pre-litigation document can save your money and interests. A well drafted document thus plans for hard to foresee events far into the future and drafts provisions to govern disputes arising from these possible events, as well as knowing the interests of the parties involved and the subject of the document.

Litigation involves the court and formal procedures, which typically take a lot of time and money (unless you settle early on). By the time you reach litigation, you are no longer able to agree with the other side on an issue at stake emotional enough to cause you or the other party to go to court. Thus, litigation involves working with emotionally charged parties and issues. Evidence is scrutinized in detail, and obtained (sometimes by the box-full) from one’s one party, the other parties (through discovery), and from other entities (informally or through subpoenas). Litigation is dependent upon what the trier of fact (the judge or the jury) thinks of your position, your lawyer, and your witnesses, and so is not a purely objective, formulaic inquiry with a completely predictable outcome. Usually, either you win or you lose, even if the situation was vastly more complex. Litigation is usually not somewhere you’d want to be but is a place of last resort. Having said all of the above, it is useful to have a lawyer who can guide you through both the law governing the facts that led the parties to come to court (called the substantive law) and the law governing the procedure once the parties have arrived at court. It is useful to have a lawyer that can both fiercely advocate for you to the court and connect with you in counseling.

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