PARTNER
Christopher G. Kerr
Christopher G. Kerr’s primary expertise is in property disputes, with extensive experience in easement, encroachment, boundary line, quiet title, trespass, and nuisance lawsuits. Mr. Kerr also has experience in landlord/tenant, personal injury, and homeowner’s association law, and has practiced in both State and Federal courts. Mr. Kerr handles all aspects of litigation, from case inception through trial and appeal. Mr. Kerr has also successfully obtained pre-trial judgments on pleadings and through summary judgment, and has negotiated favorable resolutions for his clients short of trial, including navigating coverage disputes and exclusions, to protect his clients from adverse or excess judgments.
In November 2018, Mr. Kerr was one of the trial attorneys in the matter of Sager v. J-Mar Investment Co., in which the plaintiff claimed significant physical and mental health symptoms were the result of exposure to mold following water leaks at an apartment in Long Beach, California. After a three-week trial, the jury returned a defense verdict on all claims, resulting in a judgment in favor of Defendants in excess of $100,000.
Mr. Kerr was one of the trial attorneys in the matter of Gdowski v. Tsang, a complex contract dispute related to drainage on two properties in the city of Palos Verdes Estates, California. The Court granted a nonsuit on all claims brought by the plaintiff in February 2020 and awarded the Tsangs $164,150 on their cross-complaint following completion of a remote trial in February 2021.
Mr. Kerr started with HSSA as a clerk during his second year of law school in November 2006 before becoming an attorney after graduating and passing the bar in 2008. He has been a partner since January 2018.
Prior to law school, Mr. Kerr interned for two years during his undergraduate studies with the corporate legal department of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in Menlo Park, California and London, United Kingdom. Following his first year of law school, he completed a summer internship with a small practice focused on corporate compliance in London, United Kingdom.
Mr. Kerr is an amateur photographer (whose work includes the content for this website), an amateur House and Techno DJ, and sat on the board of his prior building’s Homeowner’s Association as Secretary, Treasurer, and ultimately President, during which time he helped successfully navigate the association through a complex construction defect litigation and various contentious disputes between individual homeowners.
Education
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF LAW
Juris Doctor, 2008
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
B.A., Film and Digital Media, 2005
Bar Admissions
• State Bar of California
• United States District Court for the Central District of California
• United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit