The Pacific Grove Law Firm currently offers services in the following areas:
  • Real Estate Law, including real property transactions, foreclosure and pre-foreclosure issues, easements and boundaries, or landlord-tenant matters
  • Business, Commercial, and Contract Law, including the selection and formation of business entities; secured transactions; debt collection; and drafting or negotiating enforceable agreements
  • Employment Law
  • Environmental and Land Use Law
  • Arts Law, assisting visual artists and gallery owners with their unique legal needs
In the near future, the firm anticipates offering bankruptcy counsel to individuals and small businesses, and franchise law services for business franchisees and franchisors.

The firm’s focus is on transactional law rather than on litigation practice, and it does not offer legal services in the areas of criminal defense, personal injury, family law, elder law, or estate planning and administration. However, I gladly and freely offer local referrals for these or other legal needs that the firm cannot help with.

Initial consultations are free of charge, and I am happy to consider alternatives to hourly billing.

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The firm is a solo practice, owned and operated by me, Anthony Pearsall. My business cards describe me as an “Attorney and Counselor at Law.” Although the phrase is somewhat unfamiliar to most ears, it actually appears on the admission certificate of every lawyer licensed to practice in California. I have chosen to use it in order to reflect my firm belief that an attorney’s best service to his or her client is so often that of providing rational counsel in whatever situation, attempting to solve problems before they can even occur. It is what I always hope to do. Even when it is too late to avert a difficult situation, an attorney should still be a counselor as well, helping to inform the client about potential courses of action, along with their advantages and disadvantages.

I am a native Californian, born in San Francisco and raised in Los Angeles and San Diego. I attended the University of California at Berkeley, where I earned bachelor’s degrees “with distinction in general scholarship” in History and German, as well as an M.A. in German Literature. After military service in various parts of the world I returned to the U. C. Berkeley School of Law (informally known as “Boalt Hall”), where I earned the degree of Juris Doctor. While in law school I was a member of the California Law Review and Managing Editor of the Industrial Relations Law Journal (now the Berkeley Journal of Labor and Employment Law).

I attended college on a Department of the Army scholarship, and spent a number of years between college and law school as an infantry officer in the southern United States, the Middle East, the Caribbean area, and Central America, before receiving my honorable discharge and returning to civilian life in California.

My professional associations include: The State Bar of California, and its Business Law, Environmental Law, and Real Property Law sections ; the American Bar Association, and its sections devoted to Business Law, Real Property Law, and Environment, Energy and Resources Law, and its Forum on Franchising; the Monterey County Bar Association; the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys; and California Lawyers for the Arts.

Currently I am an appointed member of the City of Pacific Grove’s Library Board. I also belong to the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Business Improvement District, and the Rotary Club of Pacific Grove, Friends of the Pacific Grove Library, Friends of the Natural History Museum of Pacific Grove, and the Pacific Grove Arts Center. Other associations include the American Legion, the Association of the U. S. Army, the 82nd Airborne Division Assocation, and the U.S.O.; the California Alumni Association and the Boalt Hall Alumni Association.