SAN DIEGO · LOS ANGELES · ORANGE COUNTY
A Southern California
Litigation Boutique
Commercial, construction, and complex disputes for businesses and founders across Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.
“Big-firm training. Boutique terms. A partner-led practice for the mid-market matters big firms can’t price.”
THE FIRM
Counsel for matters that demand both judgment and trial readiness.
Century Legal Advisors represents companies, founders, and principals in commercial and construction disputes across California and in cross-border matters reaching the United States. The firm pairs the discipline of large-firm practice with the responsiveness of a boutique.
Engagements are partner-led from intake through resolution, with staffing sized to the matter rather than to the billing model. The practice is built for the mid-market band that demands serious counsel without AmLaw economics.
PRACTICE AREAS
Eleven practices, three tiers.
CORE LITIGATION
Commercial Litigation
Contract, partnership, and business-tort disputes for closely held and mid-market enterprises across California and in cross-border matters reaching the United States.
02Shareholder, Partnership & JV Disputes
Internal control, fiduciary-duty, and dissolution matters among principals, partners, and equity holders of closely held California companies and joint ventures.
03Construction & Infrastructure Disputes
EPC and FIDIC-based disputes; commercial construction defect, delay, and payment claims; surety and bond claims; selective project-finance disputes with U.S. contact points.
04Employment Defense
Single-plaintiff and select multi-plaintiff defense for California employers — wage, discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower claims, including trade-secret-tied executive departures.
05IP, Trade Secret & Technology Licensing
Trade-secret enforcement under CUTSA and DTSA, technology and software licensing disputes, and Lanham Act false-advertising and unfair-competition matters for California companies.
SPECIALIST LITIGATION
- 06Securities & Investor FraudRead more →
- 07International Arbitration & Cross-Border LitigationRead more →
- 08Franchising & DistributionRead more →
- 09Media, Entertainment & AdvertisingRead more →
ADVISORY
Private Client & Family Office
Discreet, coordinated counsel to international families and principals with significant California interests — across litigation, advisory, and adjacent professional teams.
Read more →Founder Counsel
A standing thirty-minute introductory conversation for newly incorporated California companies considering their first outside counsel relationship. Offered as a gesture of accessibility.
Read more →“The practice exists for matters too consequential for volume defense, too unconventional for AmLaw fee curves.”
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- ICSID arbitration involving multi-billion-dollar expropriation of energy assets
- California construction defect litigation for a commercial property owner
- Federal trademark and unfair-competition defense for a SoCal tech company
- Franchise termination and territory dispute, regional QSR concept
- Cross-border enforcement of foreign judgment against U.S. assets