Daniel Ballesteros

Practice Overview Dan Ballesteros is an aggressive litigator, with the knowledge and experience to create leverage for your case. Dans practice focuses on real estate disputes, arising out of the purchase, sale, leasing, secured lending, ownership and/or use of real property. Dan represents businesses, LLCs, partnerships, and individuals in all phases of litigation, arbitration, and mediation. Dan has successfully represented brokers, sellers and buyers in cases involving the nondisclosure of defective conditions, real property owners and business owners in actions by serial ADA litigants, mortgage brokers and lenders in actions against misrepresenting borrowers as well as wrongful foreclosure actions, owners in cases involving partition, possession and nuisance, neighbors in cases involving prescriptive easements, boundary line disputes and encroachment, individual members of LLCs and partnerships regarding issues of governance and control of profits, and tort claims by and against third parties. Firm Leadership Dan has been with Hoge Fenton since 1989. He joined the hiring committee as an associate in 1992. He became a shareholder in 1997 and has served multiple terms as a practice group leader, having chaired (at different times) both the Real Estate and Litigation departments. Dan served as the firms Managing Shareholder from 2013 - 2024. Practice Areas Agriculture Banking & Mortgage Business Litigation Cannabis Construction Family Office Support Food & Beverage Litigation and Dispute Resolution Real Estate and Land Use Education J. D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley B. A., Public Policy, Stanford University Admissions California U. S. District Court, Eastern, Northern & Southern Districts of California U. S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit