Ricky Shah is a seasoned civil litigator with a strategic focus on efficiency and results. He has a deep and broad base of experience litigating complex cases in a various of business, real property, insurance, and securities matters for small businesses, financial companies and mid to high net-worth individual clients.

Ricky grew up learning to focus on the bottom, growing up in Southern California working for a family grocery store, giving him the training to treat litigation with a business-like cost-benefit analysis.

Ricky was not initially interested in law and instead graduating from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Batchelor of Sciences degree in applied mathematics, focusing on financial theory. That degree got him a job as a paralegal on complex antitrust, securities, class action and employment litigation matters at a midsize firm in Century City and in large firms in Orange County. After several years as a paralegal in complex litigation, he developed his passion for the law and went to law school at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law.

With over fifteen years of experience, Ricky has worked in a variety of disciplines, both litigation and transaction, across including all forms of civil litigation, state and federal, and even bankruptcy court. His expertise covers a broad range of residential and commercial real property issues and is has dealt with a variety of on the ground real issues drafting agreements (and litigating) everything from residential real property disputes to fights with homeowners association (HOA) to mobilehomes and RV parks. Along with developing his expertise in private lending, he has experience in employment issues, thefts of trade secrets, and even minority-majority shareholder disputes.

With the experience of trying over forty civil trials and having settled many more, Ricky is skilled at providing a laser-like focus to efficiently and cost-effectively resolve both small and complex disputes, especially when the problems are deliberately created by the opposing side.

Ricky is also a strong thought leader in the community and has been involved in various nonprofits and associations at the county, state, and national levels. He is also a member of the Orange County Bar Association’s Legislative Resolutions Committee, a part of the California Committee of Bar Associations, and works closely with state legislators to make changes in state law, including a recent resolution to attempt to reduce litigation for nonjudicial foreclosures.