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The Rover Law Firm – Decisive Legal Guidance

The Rover Law Firm has been the Coachella Valley’s source for full service transaction and litigation services for over ten years. We focus on customer satisfaction and are involved from the planning stages to the final execution of your project.

Business Transactions.
Construction and Real Estate Solutions. 
Dispute Resolution.

Trust your important legal work to professionals that understand your business!

The Rover Law Firm assists clients in a wide array of Corporate, Real Estate & Construction, and Dispute Resolution legal services.  High-quality, timely and innovative representation has been a cornerstone of the firm since 1997.

With knowledge and skill in an expansive range of businesses, The Rover Law Firm provides effective and modern solutions to meet client needs.  We advocate to a diverse group of public and private entities including:

  • Small Entrepreneurial Businesses

  • Local Institutions

  • Multinational Companies

The experience garnered by The Rover Law Firm comes not only from the law library and the courtroom, but more importantly from the industries we serve:

  • Our lawyers have worked as developers & subcontractors and have represented design professionals and contractors throughout the Construction Industry.

  • The Rover Law Firm is an active supporter of various legal and trade associations – including The American, State and Desert Bar Associations, The Desert Contractor’s Association, and the Building Industry Association.

The Rover Law Firm has a strong commitment to the community, working closely with charitable organizations, service clubs and educational institutions:

  • The H.N. & Frances C. Berger Foundation

  • University of California Alumni Association

  • Xavier College Preparatory High School


The Work

The Rover Law Firm is a full service firm with specialized practice areas to meet clients’ wide-ranging needs. 

BUSINESS LAW

The Rover Law Firm offers a complete range of corporate legal services, delivered by a dynamic and experienced team.  Our clients include corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and sole proprietorships.  Our Business Law group offers legal and strategic advice, and also provides structure, negotiation and implementation of all types of business transactions:

  • Business Structuring, including the formation of California and out-of-state corporations, LLCs, LLPs, and partnerships

  • Stock option plans and executive compensation

  • Shareholder and partnership agreements, joint ventures, and other strategic alliances.

  • Transactions involving business sales, including project financing, private equity investments, venture capital and angel financings

  • Litigation, arbitration and mediation of business disputes involving contract, real estate, and other issues

CONSTRUCTION LAW

The Rover Law Firm has niche expertise in providing expert and practical advice in all areas of real estate property law.  We offer our clients counsel to prevent or minimize the risk of disputes. Our clients include public and private project owners, design professionals, construction managers, contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, and national bonding companies.  We provide experienced, ongoing advice in all types of real estate property transactions relating to all asset classes:

  • Commercial acquisitions and dispositions

  • Real estate financing, including development, construction, leasehold financing and syndicated loans

  • Commercial development and land assembly

  • Commercial leasing, including ground leases and office, retail and shopping center leases

  • Residential Condominium and subdivision development

  • Recovery work for secured lenders

  • Joint ventures


DISPUTE RESOLUTION

While The Rover Law firm offers the services of expert litigation attorneys, the most effective and economical method of resolving a dispute will not always require actual use of the judicial system.  We tailor the procedure of dispute resolution to meet the needs and interests of the client on a case-by-case basis.  We offer a variety of traditional and alternative solutions:

  • Mediation

  • Binding and non-binding arbitration

  • Private negotiation and court-supervised settlement conferences

  • Mini-trials

The Rover Law Firm attorneys are experienced trial lawyers.  We are well versed in dispute resolution law in a wide variety of contexts:

  • Availability of discovery

  • Scope of the right to confidentiality

  • Enforceability of arbitral awards

  • Securing of special relief, including injunctions and punitive damages


The People

 

Michael B. Rover, Esq.

Shareholder – Business and Real Estate Transactions

Since its founding in 1997, Mike Rover has been a shareholder of The Rover Law Firm practicing business, real estate, and construction law.  Mike’s clients include project owners, developers, design professionals, construction managers, contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, and sureties. 

Mike’s business related services include the formation of California corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, stock transactions, and transactions involving the sale andpurchase of business assets. 

Since founding The Rover Law Firm, Mike has developed diverse and extensive clientele and strong qualifications including:

Bachelor of Business Administration - University of San Diego

Juris Doctor - Loyola Law School, Los AngelesAmerican Jurisprudence Award for excellence in trial advocacy

Licensed California contractor (Lic. No. 634818)

Licensed real estate broker by the California Department of Real Estate (Lic. No. 1302921)

  • Member of California State Bar, American Bar Association, and the Desert Bar Association

  • Admitted to practice under U.S. Supreme Court, California Supreme Court, U.S. District Courts for the Central and Southern Districts of California, U.S. Court of Appeals NinthCircuit, and the U.S. Tax Court.

Mike is actively involved in charitable activities that positively impact the community:

Director – The H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation

Director – Xavier College Preparatory High School

  • Board of Trustees – Desert Bar Association

  • School Board Member– Sacred Heart School

  • Knighted by Cardinal Roger Mahony – Knight of the Holy Sepulchre of JerusalemMike, his wife DoeDee, and their four children reside in Palm Desert.

           


Stephen J. Armstrong, Esq.

Shareholder – Litigation and Arbitration

Stephen Armstrong joined The Rover Law Firm in the summer of 2003, moving to Palm Desert from Walnut Creek, California.  Specializing in complex business and real estate litigation, Stephen has successfully tried and arbitrated cases in numerous counties and presently has cases pending in Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Imperial, Solano, and Sacramento counties.  Recognizing his incredible work ethic and passion for the practice of law, The Rover Law Firm acknowledged Stephen by naming him as a shareholder and officer of the firm in 2006.

During his legal studies, Stephen clerked at Cooley Godward and McCutcheon Doyle in San Francisco, and Paul Johnson, Park & Niles in Honolulu.  Following an outstanding academic career in both his baccalaureate studies at University of California, Berkeley and at Hastings College of the Law, Stephen began his law career in Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk, & Rabkin’s litigation department where he practiced commercial litigation representing clients including the Oakland Raiders and R.J. Reynolds.  Later, he expanded his practice to also represent design professionals and other construction-related cases during his tenure at a boutique law firm in Walnut Creek.

Stephen has forged a strong resume, qualifying him to serve the firm’s extensive clientele.  His qualifications include:Bachelor of Science, Political Science - University of California, Berkeley

Juris Doctor – University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Member of the State Bar of California, American Bar Association, and the Desert Bar Association

Admitted to practice before all the courts of the State of California and the United States District Court, Central District of California

  • Served in the United States Navy, stationed on the USS Carl Vinson as a nuclear reactoroperator

Stephen is actively involved in several community associations, including:

University of California Alumni Association, Bears in the Desert

Desert Contractors’ Association

La Quinta High School Boosters

American Heart Association’s Heart Walk

United Way

Stephen, his wife, and two daughters reside in La Quinta.


The Address

We look forward to assisting you with your next project.

Michael B. Rover   mrover@roverlaw.com

Stephen Armstrong   sarmstong@roverlaw.com

Rover Law Firm
44-875 Deep Canyon Road, Suite 3
Palm Desert, CA  92260

Telephone:  760.346.4741
Toll Free:  800.346.4213
Fax:  760.346.3871


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