Contact Information

500 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor

Sacramento, CA 95814

916.325.4538

tfogarty@mhalaw.com

Practice Group Leader

Litigation

Practice Focus

General Litigation

Real Estate

Title Insurance

General Business Litigation

Michael "Tod" Fogarty | Shareholder

Professional Experience

Tod is the Practice Group Leader for McDonough Holland & Allen’s Litigation Practice Group. He is a Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated attorney, and has handled both trials and appeals, emphasizing business and real estate litigation since he joined McDonough in 1977.

Tod represents 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.

He 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

First American Title Ins. Co. v. XWarehouse Lending Corp. (2009) 177 Cal.App.4th 106.

Stoneridge Parkway Partners, LLC v. MW Housing Partners III, L.P. (2007) 153 Cal.App.4th 1373.

Beyer v. Tahoe Sands Resort (2005) 129 Cal.App.4th 1458.

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, Sacramento County Bar Association

Master, American Inn of Court

Honors/Awards

Recognized on The Best Lawyers in America^® 2009 & 2010 list, Appellate Law; 2010 list, Bet-the-Company & Commercial Litigation

Clerkships

Clerk for Hon. Robert Puglia, Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, 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