MANAGING ATTORNEY - NATHAN A. PEREA, ESQ.

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• Business Transactions and Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions and Litigation
• Construction Contracts, Mechanic's Liens
• Sexual Harassment
• Employment Discrimination
• Wrongful and Constructive Termination
• Wage and Hour Dispute
• Elder Law and Elder Abuse
• Catastrophic Personal Injury
• Contract Disputes
• Estate Planning
• Civil Rights
• Insurance Bad-Faith
• Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE) litigation
• Memory Care litigation
• Invasion of Privacy - Extortion
• Cyberbullying
• Parental Rights for Public School Students
• Constitutional Law / Constitutional Rights

Nathan Perea  is rated "Excellent" by AVVO and received the Clients' Choice Award in 2013. Mr. Perea has invested himself in the legal profession for over 20 years, as a student, clerk, and practitioner. His primary focus is business and real estate transactions and litigation. His cases include breach of duties, fraudulent representations, insurance bad faith, elder abuse, sexual harassment, invasion of privacy, and catastrophic personal injury cases.

Mr. Perea was born in Maryland, in a small town along the Chesapeake Bay. His father, a native Californian, moved the family to Orange County, California, and then to Riverside County, in 1981.

Mr. Perea attended the University of California Santa Cruz, where he graduated with a degree in Politics and a minor in Sociology in 1997. As a student at UCSC Mr. Perea received a Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship, acting as a student liaison with the University's housing department.

In 2000, Mr. Perea entered law school at Lewis & Clark College, Northwestern School of Law in Portland, Oregon. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 2003, and had a curriculum emphasis in small business law. As a student, he received a scholarship from the Oregon State Bar Association and clerked for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon. During his second year in law school, he clerked for a regional Trucking Industry Defense Firm. 

Following graduation, Mr. Perea clerked for the Hon. Judge Michael McShane, currently a United States District Court Judge for the District of Oregon. Mr. Perea remained in Oregon for 2004. 

In 2005 Mr. Perea returned to Southern California, and began his practice in a regional public entity defense firm, and a prominent business law firm. Thereafter, in 2010, Mr. Perea moved to a civil rights defense firm where he earned a partnership. Mr. Perea successfully defended social workers, law enforcement officers, medical professionals, public officials and public agencies against claims of Constitutional Rights violations including claims arising from the First, Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. He has defended claims asserted by parents suspected of abuse, children placed into protective custody and examined by healthcare officials, and inmates claiming unlawful confinement and illegal jail conditions.

In 2017 Mr. Perea opened Perea Law, APC.

Mr. Perea has experience handling a wide range of litigation matters for public entities, HOAs, insurance carriers, third party administrators, businesses, employers, employees, and individuals. Mr. Perea's case list includes matters involving Superfund Sites; the Clean Water Act; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA); California Real Estate Settlement Procedure Act (RESPA); Davis Sterling Act; Breach of Contract; Breach of Fiduciary Duty; Premises Liability; Product Liability; Negligent Hiring; Negligent Supervision; Breach of Non-Disclosure Agreement; Magnussen-Moss Warranty Act; Song-Beverly Act; Unlawful Detainer; Breach of Commercial Lease; Interference with Business Contract; Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage; Elder Abuse; Invasion of Privacy; Defamation of Character; Medical Malpractice; Physical Therapy Malpractice; Dental Malpractice; Catastrophic Automobile Accidents; Catastrophic Brain Injuries; Bivens claims. 

Mr. Perea is admitted to practice in every state Court in California, as well as the federal district courts of the Southern, Central, Northern, and Eastern Districts of California. He is licensed with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

Mr. Perea is a former board member of the Riverside Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a former volunteer with the Inland Empire Latino Lawyers Association in Riverside, and a former chairman of the board for the Unforgettables Foundation. 

Mr. Perea has received numerous philanthropic awards including the foundations’ Heart Award awarded by the Unforgettable Foundation for commendable philanthropic activities in the Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. He has also received Certificates of Recognition for his philanthropic work from Richard D. Roth, Senator 31st District of California, The County of San Bernardino, and the California Legislature Assembly.