Miller Starr Regalia, a preeminent California real estate law firm for more than 60 years, announced today the addition of Vance Prescott to the firm’s Litigation Department. Prescott joins the firm’s Walnut Creek office as an associate, bringing experience from private practice and as a District Attorney.
“Vance’s in-the-trenches trial experience will be a benefit to our lawyers and clients. He strengthens our bench, and we look forward to the contributions he will make. We are delighted to welcome him to the firm,” said Brian Shaffer, MSR’s Litigation Practice Group Chair.
Most recently, Prescott served as the Deputy District Attorney for the Office of the District Attorney of Contra Costa County, where he prosecuted violent and non-violent felony offenses, prosecuted twelve jury trials to verdict as the lead attorney and oversaw domestic violence cases. Previously, he was a litigation associate attorney at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where he represented Fortune 500 companies on both sides of litigation in a variety of disputes, including real estate, landlord and tenant disputes, was well as intellectual property, breach of contract, mass torts, False Claims Act and fraud action matters.
Prescott earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and his B.A. in Political Science from The George Washington University. He served as a Certified Law Clerk for the Office of the District Attorney of Santa Clara County in San Jose.
MSR's Litigation Department represents Fortune 500 companies, governmental agencies, developers, homebuilders, financial institutions, title insurers, property owners and managers, retailers, media companies, manufacturers, REITs and smaller companies in a variety of matters related to business, real property, commercial, environmental, construction and insurance-related disputes.
Miller Starr Regalia
Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than sixty-years. For nearly all that time, our firm has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. We call it “the Book.” The Book is the most-widely used and judicially-recognized real estate treatise in California and is cited by practicing attorneys and courts throughout the state. Our firm has experience in all real property matters, including full-service litigation and dispute resolution services, transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, common interest development, construction, management, title insurance, environmental law, and land use. For more information, visit www.msrlegal.com.
