Wilke Fleury congratulates attorneys Dan Baxter,  Steve Marmaduke, Dan Egan, George Guthrie, and David Frenznick on their inclusion in the Sacramento Business Journal 2018 Best of the Bar! The Sacramento Business Journal annually honors the region’s top attorneys after a rigorous process of selection. To be awarded the Best of the Bar, attorneys are nominated by fellow attorneys and then vetted by a panel of peers.

Wilke Fleury is thrilled to celebrate the five attorneys awarded this distinction and looks forward to the attorney’s profiles in the Sacramento Business Journal’s special ‘Best of the Bar’ publication.

Wilke Fleury congratulates attorney David A. Frenznick on his inclusion in the 2019 Edition of Best Lawyers in America.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. For the 2016 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 6.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

David A. Frenznick – Litigation, Real Estate

David has extensive and broad experience in the areas of complex civil litigation, with particular emphasis on the representation of residential and commercial property owners in construction-related disputes. David represents homeowners, homeowner associations, developers and contractors in real estate cases, as well as complex construction defect claims involving multiple single-family residences and multi-unit developments.

Congratulations to Dan Baxter!  Dan was named by SuperLawyers as one of Northern California’s Top 100 lawyers, and one of Sacramento’s Top 25 lawyers.  The latter designation also identified Dan as Sacramento’s top-rated business litigation attorney!

Eight other attorneys from Wilke Fleury were also selected as SuperLawyers for 2018!

Super Lawyers® is a service of the Thomson Reuters, Legal Division. Each year, the research team at Super Lawyers® undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by the attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area and a good-standing  and disciplinary check. The Super Lawyers list represents only five percent of lawyers in California and Rising Stars reflects 2.5% of the state’s up-and-coming lawyers.

In any service profession. terminating a relationship with an existing client Is one of the most uncomfortable tasks a practitioner has to undertake, “Firing a client” is not only personally unpleasant. but it
is often at cross-purposes with the economic interests of the practitioner. Whether the profession at issue is veterinary medicine. the practice of law. or mowing lawns. it is hard to “fire” someone who is paying you money And, even when the client’s dereliction involves a persistent failure to pay the interpersonal dynamics attendant to firing a client can be nettlesome. Adding to the difficulty is the fact that. for California veterinarians, there 1s no clear legal roadmap governing how a client relationship should be terminated.

Read the full article here: “I’ve Had Enough!!!” (Or, When and How to Fire a Client), Part One