- Email: Chris.Greenleaf@lewisbrisbois.com
- Phone: 213.680.5148
- Fax: 213.250.7900
Christopher Greenleaf is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Complex Business & Commercial Litigation Practice. His practice is focused on business litigation including serving as lead trial counsel in landlord-tenant disputes, and providing counsel to hotels, property management companies, educational institutions, and property owners on a variety of landlord-tenant and habitability issues. Mr. Greenleaf has more than 25 years of litigation experience. He handles the following types of matters:
- General business litigation including contract disputes through trial
- Real estate law
- Landlord-tenant law including unlawful detainer, wrongful eviction, and habitability cases through trial
- Advising clients on landlord-tenant issues
- Collection of judgments and pursuit of pretrial collection remedies including writs of possession and writs of attachment
- Trade secret litigation
- Corporate and partnership disputes
- Banking litigation including letter of credit disputes
Publications
- The Holder-in-due-Course Exemption to the Fraud Exception to Compelled Honor Under Revised Article 5, 115 BANKING LAW JOURNAL, January 1998
- Making Interrogatory Responses Binding Judicial Admissions, LOS ANGELES LAWYER, December 1997
Professional Presentations
Lectured to various banking organizations concerning letters of credit
Admissions
-
State Bar Admissions
- California
Admissions
California
Education
University of Southern California
Juris Doctor, 1993
- Southern California Law Review
University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, 1990