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Herbert Yanowitz – San Francisco Real Estate Attorney

Herbert Yanowitz is a San Francisco real estate lawyer and a criminal defense attorney. Including all of the criminal writ petitions which he has filed during the some 16 years. He also practices real estate law in San Francisco. He probably has handled or worked on more than 75 appellate matters.  In California, at least seven opinions in cases I have handled have been cited in various Witkin treatises on points of substantive and evidentiary law and one case was listed in an article as being one of the most important cases in employment law over the past ten years.  The cases are the following:

• Yanowitz v. L’Oreal USA, Inc. (2005) 36 Cal. 4th 1028, 116 P.3d 1123, 32 Cal.Rptr.3d 436, involved retaliation under the Fair Employment and Housing Act against my wife for refusing to fire a good-performing female employee who her general manager thought was physically unattractive.  The opinion of Chief Justice Ronald M. George established several significant principles of employment law. The case has been cited in 286 published and unpublished decisions and has been the subject of discussion and commentary in numerous texts, periodicals, and programs and seminars.

• Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (1980) 27 Cal.3d 916, 616 P.2d 813, 167 Cal.Rptr. 831, 16 A.L.R. 4th 518, which involved emotional distress damages when there was no physical injury or impact, was considered by the Continuing Education of the Bar in its annual survey of cases to be the leading tort case in California decided in 1980.  It was featured in an article in the periodical of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, written by a Professor of Torts, and has been included in summary form in one casebook on torts, Dobbs and Hayden, Torts and Compensation:  Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (4th ed. 2001 West), pages 507-508 and 521.

• People v. Schoenfeld (1980) 111 Cal.App.3d 671, 168 Cal.Rptr. 762, was the appeal in the Chowchilla school bus kidnapping case. Three young men from prominent families hijacked a school bus and transported the 26 children on the bus and the bus driver to a buried moving van, from which the victims later escaped.  The crime and its aftermath was the Story of the Year both for the AP and the UP.

There are many San Francisco real estate law firms to choose. Herbert Yanowitz is not only a criminal defense lawyer, but he is also a San Francisco residential real estate lawyer.

Herbert Yanowitz, Attorney at Law, 225 Bush Street, Sixth Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104-4207, 415-362-1365