Biography
Brandon Fieldsted, a Partner at TLD Law, is a litigation attorney whose practice focuses on appeals and civil litigation within the areas of real estate, business and partnership, trust and estates, labor and employment, sports and entertainment, and contract law.
Mr. Fieldsted has successfully represented clients in numerous appeals involving early dismissals, summary judgments, and judgments after bench and jury trials. Some successes include:
- Reversal of judgment after jury trial and reinstatement of damages vacated by trial court pursuant to a conditional grant of a motion for new trial, in a medical partnership dissolution action involving claims of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty;
- Reversal of summary judgments in a medical partnership dissolution action involving claims of breach of the partnership agreement, breach of fiduciary duty, and alter ego liability;
- Reversal of judgment after bench trial in an action under Probate Code section 850 brought by a successor trustee against a former trustee to recover trust assets;
- Affirmance of judgment after bench trial in a commercial landlord’s action against a former tenant for unpaid rent;
- Affirmance of judgment after bench trial in an action for breach of a lease agreement due to landlord’s alleged failure to place the tenant in possession of the premises;
- Affirmance of trial court order setting aside a default judgment and quashing and recalling a writ of execution in a debt collection action; and
- Affirmance of summary judgments in favor of a local church in a lawsuit brought by disgruntled church members who alleged that the church’s use of donated funds constituted fraud, embezzlement/conversion, and breach of fiduciary duty.
In litigation, Mr. Fieldsted has also successfully represented numerous clients in real estate, contract, sports, commercial, domestic, and trust and probate disputes, and in labor and employment lawsuits, many of which resulted in favorable settlements, arbitration awards, court orders, and judgments for clients. In real estate matters, he has successfully resolved many real estate disputes and lawsuits involving claims of quiet title, wrongful reconveyance, breach of warranty of habitability, unlawful detainer, breach of lease agreement, breach of listing and commission agreements, breach of purchase and sale agreements, trespass, easements, encroachments, and HOAs. He has also successfully settled employment claims, an action to renew a multi-million dollar money judgment, and trust and probate claims, including a lawsuit alleging breach of a testamentary promise.
When settlement discussions fail, Mr. Fieldsted has achieved good results for clients in trial court and arbitration proceedings. Such successes include:
- A complete defense verdict in a multi-day bench trial in an action for breach of a lease agreement due to landlord’s alleged failure to place the tenant in possession of the premises;
- A judgment in a multi-day bench trial in favor of a plaintiff seeking to confirm and domesticate an out-of-state judgment against a decedent’s estate;
- Dissolutions of domestic violence and elder abuse restraining orders, along with dismissals of said actions on behalf of responding parties;
- The granting of a motion for reconsideration in a domestic violence restraining order action on behalf of the requesting party, and then obtaining the restraining order in the rehearing;
- A voluntary dismissal of an action to renew a multi-million dollar money judgment;
- Favorable arbitration awards, and then trial court judgments confirming the arbitration awards, in sports and entertainment breach of contract cases;
- Judgments for possession in unlawful detainer actions; and
- Stays of evictions and foreclosure pending litigation of competing title claims and rights to possess the property.
Mr. Fieldsted joined the firm as a law clerk in the summer of 2012. Before working at TLD Law, Mr. Fieldsted graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brigham Young University in 2010, where he studied psychology and philosophy. He served as an editor of the BYU Pre-Law Review and worked as a writing tutor in the Brigham Young University Writing Center for two years. As an undergraduate, Mr. Fieldsted interned at both the Provo City Attorney’s Office and in Washington D.C. at the Federal Judicial Center in the Attorneys and Judges Program.
Mr. Fieldsted went on to graduate from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in the spring of 2013. While in law school, he served as Senior Content Editor of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal and also received honors for achieving the highest grade in the class for both Legal Writing and Advanced Legal Research. Also during law school, Mr. Fieldsted was an extern for the Honorable Robert N. Kwan in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.
Mr. Fieldsted speaks both English and Spanish.
Mr. Fieldsted is admitted to practice before all California State Courts, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
