About Barbara Home
Barbara provides legal counsel to individuals and businesses in the areas real estate law, business counsel, commercial transactions, banking law and common interest developments. Barbara represents clients in complex commercial property transactions as well as individual residential property owners in a variety of real estate transactions and disputes, including commercial and residential sales and leasing. Barbara provides advice and assistance in establishing businesses and advises clients on a wide range of business issues, from selecting and forming the right business entity to the acquisition of other companies by merger or the sale of assets. Barbara acts as outside general counsel for many companies, advising them with practical solutions to a full range of concerns including employment issues, regulatory considerations, and financing issues. Barbara has experience with negotiating and documenting commercial transactions including sales of businesses, equipment sales, private financing transactions, promissory notes and security agreements. Barbara provides general counsel services to common interest developments, including planned communities and residential and commercial condominiums.

Personal Data:
Born: Stanford, California.

Education:
University of California, San Diego (B.A., 1985)
California Western School of Law (J.D., Magna Cum Laude, 1999)

Admitted to Bar:
California, 2000
United States District Court, Northern District of California, 2000
United States District Court, Southern District of California, 2004
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2000

Affiliations:
State Bar of California (Member of Business and Real Estate sections)
Sonoma County Bar Association (Director 2001 – 2004)
Sonoma County Women-in-Law (Director 2004 - 2005)
American Bar Association (Member of Business and Real Property, Probate & Trust sections)
Executive Council of Homeowners (ECHO)
California Association of Community Managers (CACM)
American Business Women’s Association (Director, Wine Country Chapter 2006 - 2008)
California Dressage Society (Sonoma County Chapter Director 2001 – 2006)
America Quarter Horse Association
Sonoma County Humane Society

Special Training:
Barbara has taken numerous courses on negotiation strategy, real estate issues, employment law issues, common interest development law, banking law, and commercial code seminars. Barbara is a member of the Business Law section of the California Bar Association, American Bar Association and Sonoma County Bar Association, as well as a member of the Real Estate Section of the California Bar Association and the Real Property, Probate and Trust section of the American Bar Association.