Complex Litigation

Bartko is a boutique high-end law firm specializing in national and international complex litigation and investigations.

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Labor & Employment

Bartko’s top-tier Northern and Southern California labor and employment practice group represent a diverse group of clients, including healthcare providers, technology companies, media companies, law firms, cultural institutions, and small business owners.

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Transactional Real Estate

Bartko handles the full range of real estate matters for clients, including tenants, property owners and commercial developers nationwide.

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Intellectual Property

For years, Bartko attorneys have achieved outstanding results for their clients in diverse areas of intellectual property litigation.

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Patent Litigation

As part of our Intellectual Property practice, Bartko patent litigators routinely represent both plaintiffs and defendants in trial courts throughout the United States.

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Real Estate Litigation

Bartko has extensive experience litigating real estate disputes of all kinds on behalf of property owners, landlords, tenants, developers, property managers, brokers, real estate investors, real estate partnerships, REITs, mortgage banks, lenders, borrowers and guarantors.

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Enforcement and Data Privacy

Our attorneys have expertise in defending clients, both in the private and public sectors, in high-stakes privacy litigation and enforcement matters.

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Recognizing Our History | Focused on the Future

Bartko, established 45 years ago, is a top 20 boutique law firm specializing in national and international complex litigation and investigations, as well as real estate and franchising transactions. We are a 45+ lawyer firm dedicated to the strategic cutting-edge representation of our clients in California, nationally and internationally.

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Bartko Selected as Top 20 Boutique Law Firm by The Daily Journal

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Bartko Ranked Top Litigation Boutique

Bartko Ranked Top Litigation Boutique November 1, 2023 The firm is proud to be recognized in the November 1, 2023 Supplement to the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal as one of the “Top Boutiques” in California.  In the article, Patrick M. Ryan is quoted as saying: “We thrive on representing both plaintiffs and […]

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Bartko Wins Top Defense Verdict

Bartko Wins Top Defense Verdict February 21, 2024 San Francisco, CA — The Bartko trial team from the In Re Francesca Naify case received a Daily Journal award as one of California’s top five defense verdicts in 2023, and the top trust and estate case verdict.  Ben Riley, Rob Bunzel, and Sony Barari tried the […]

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Bartko Wins Massive $845 Million Trade Secret Verdict for ASML

Bartko Wins Massive $845 Million Trade Secret Verdict for ASML February 19, 2020 – Bartko scored the highest Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets victory in California in 2019 and was ranked Number 2 overall in the California Daily Journal’s Top Verdicts (PDF) by Dollar in California for 2019. In May of 2019, Bartko secured an […]

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