Contact Information

555 Capitol Mall 9th Floor

Sacramento CA 95814

916.325.4538

tfogarty@mhalaw.com

Practice Focus

Real Estate

Title Insurance

General Business Litigation

Michael T. Fogarty | Shareholder

Professional Experience

Tod has been a litigator since joining McDonough Holland & Allen PC in 1977. A Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated attorney, Tod handles both trials and appeals, with an emphasis in business and real estate litigation.

He has represented major developers, lending institutions, hospitals, pension funds and public entities in a wide range of business and real estate disputes at both the trial and appellate levels, including the California Supreme Court.

Tod has special expertise in title insurance and escrow litigation and has represented California’s leading title insurance companies and their insureds in hundreds of cases involving almost every imaginable title and escrow issue. Tod lectures before Bar and civic groups on various aspects of real estate litigation.

Representative Matters

Lead counsel for the appellants in Beyer v. Tahoe Sands Resort (2005) 129 Cal.App.4th 1458.

Lead counsel for defendants and respondents in Stoneridge Parlway Partners, LLC v. MW Housing Partners III, L.P. (2007) 153 Cal.App.4th 1373.

Presentations/Publications

Author, “California Entrapment Law – A Need for Statutory Clarification,” 5 Pacific Law Journal 603

Leadership Positions/Affiliations

Board of Directors – McDonough Holland & Allen PC

Member, American Bar Association

Member, State Bar of California

Member, Sacramento County Bar Association

Master, American Inn of Court

Clerkships

Clerk for Hon. Robert Puglia, Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals, Third Appellate District

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Admitted to Practice

State Bar of California, 1975

Education

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

J.D., 1975

Comment Editor, Pacific Law Journal

University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., with High Honors, Economics, 1972