Tom McConnell is a litigation shareholder in Miller Starr Regalia's Walnut Creek office. Tom has over 22 years of experience in complex disputes involving real estate law and commercial leases.
To pursue the best interests of his clients Tom keeps an eye toward engineering practical solutions, often leading to fast, cost-efficient results. He has successfully represented financial institutions, property owners, property managers and large institutional tenants in breach of lease and other contract disputes, enforcement of contract cases, collections, fraud and nondisclosure cases, construction disputes, insurance claims and business dissolution cases.
Tom has also taken a leadership role within Miller Starr Regalia by spending many years serving on the firm's Executive and Risk Management Committees, acting as Hiring Shareholder, and orchestrating the firm's summer clerk program.
EDUCATION
Tom received an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis in 1984, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. In 1987, Tom earned a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
J. Gordon Holmes v. Lawrence D. Farb, et al.
Represented the defendants/tenants following the expiration of their 20 year commercial lease with their landlord. Plaintiffs' allegations included claims relating to defendants' failure to maintain properly the premises and failure to return the premises in the condition required by the lease. The plaintiffs also asserted various ADA and fraud-based claims. Obtained a court decision in clients' favor on all grounds.
Tamsen Munger v. Mike Vukajlovic, et al.
Represented plaintiff in a claim for breach of an exclusive contained in a commercial lease agreement. Further, defended client against a cross complaint filed by the defendant landlord for breach of lease. Obtained a court decision in client's favor on all claims and cross complaints.
Tracy Joint Unified School District v. Ernest Pombo, et al.
Represented the owner of unimproved land in Tracy in an eminent domain action brought by the Tracy Joint USD. The Tracy Joint USD’s final offer for the 60+ acres in question was $3,181,500. In the end, the jury awarded land owner $7,985,150 in damages.
Sundby v. Metrix Corporation
Represented an individual plaintiff in a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty case against a Wisconsin-based corporation with whom the client joint ventured to sell a computer software program. This case involved over 20 depositions that were taken throughout the country. Ultimately, the case was tried to a jury in the Federal District Court in San Francisco, resulting in a damage award in favor of the plaintiff in excess of $1 million.
Main Street Pleasanton v. Nazamy
Represented the plaintiff in a dispute involving the timeliness of the defendant's alleged exercise of an option to extend a commercial lease. Obtained a court decision in favor of the client confirming the termination of the parties' lease agreement and recovery of possession on behalf of the landlord.
