Proudly serving Marin County & The Bay Area for over 40 years.
Regardless of whether your case should be settled or tried, finding an attorney who has substantial trial
experience is critical. If the other side does not believe that you will successfully try the case, they will not be
motivated to settle the case. Our attorney’s reputation for aggressive trial advocacy is well known in the
community, and says that you are prepared to try the case if no satisfactory settlement is reached.
Our attorneys are well known in the community and are regarded as formidable litigation advocates. Both
attorneys represent individuals and businesses in Marin County and the Bay Area. Their practice has been built
by referral. Brekhus Law Partners has not only represented some of Marin’s founding families, they have also
represented attorneys, who use them due to their formidable reputation.
Peter Brekhus was a former City Attorney for Larkspur and Ross, and served on the Ross Town Council for
16 years, from 1980 to 1996. He formed the firm in 1967. Elizabeth Brekhus joined the practice in 1997.
Elizabeth Brekhus is a Marin native, and was elected as a Council Member to the Ross Town Council in 2012.
She has served on the Board of the Marin County Bar Association since 2006, and was elected President-elect
of the Marin County Bar Association in 2013.
Major practice areas include business and commercial litigation, contract disputes, land use and
municipal/zoning law, real property law, inverse condemnation, landslide litigation, environmental law, insurance
and bad faith litigation, art law, personal injury, employment law, construction law, government contracts
litigation, personal injury and wrongful death.
Attorneys from Brekhus Law Partners have represented thousands of individual and business clients in Marin,
San Francisco, and the greater Bay Area and Fresno, including the City of Larkspur, the Internal Revenue
Service, Richardson Bay Sanitary District, T.J.’s Gym, Borrowlense.com, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company,
Fingerhut Group Publishers, Inc., The Ganz Family Trust, The Phoenix Bar & Pub, The Caprice Restaurant, the
San Anselmo Inn, Asqew Restaurants, The Halfday Café, Management Maintenance Building, Inc., Meridian
Surveying & Engineering, Pt. San Pablo Yatch Club, Old Oakland Partners, ServiceMaster, Keep it Green, and
Teamwork Concepts, Inc.
Regardless of whether your case should be settled or tried, finding an attorney who has substantial trial
experience is critical. If the other side does not believe that you will successfully try the case, they will not be
motivated to settle the case. Our attorney’s reputation for aggressive trial advocacy is well known in the
community, and says that you are prepared to try the case if no satisfactory settlement is reached.
Our attorneys are well known in the community and are regarded as formidable litigation advocates. Both
attorneys represent individuals and businesses in Marin County and the Bay Area. Their practice has been built
by referral. Brekhus Law Partners has not only represented some of Marin’s founding families, they have also
represented attorneys, who use them due to their formidable reputation.
Peter Brekhus was a former City Attorney for Larkspur and Ross, and served on the Ross Town Council for
16 years, from 1980 to 1996. He formed the firm in 1967. Elizabeth Brekhus joined the practice in 1997.
Elizabeth Brekhus is a Marin native, and was elected as a Council Member to the Ross Town Council in 2012.
She has served on the Board of the Marin County Bar Association since 2006, and was elected President-elect
of the Marin County Bar Association in 2013.
Major practice areas include business and commercial litigation, contract disputes, land use and
municipal/zoning law, real property law, inverse condemnation, landslide litigation, environmental law, insurance
and bad faith litigation, art law, personal injury, employment law, construction law, government contracts
litigation, personal injury and wrongful death.
Attorneys from Brekhus Law Partners have represented thousands of individual and business clients in Marin,
San Francisco, and the greater Bay Area and Fresno, including the City of Larkspur, the Internal Revenue
Service, Richardson Bay Sanitary District, T.J.’s Gym, Borrowlense.com, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company,
Fingerhut Group Publishers, Inc., The Ganz Family Trust, The Phoenix Bar & Pub, The Caprice Restaurant, the
San Anselmo Inn, Asqew Restaurants, The Halfday Café, Management Maintenance Building, Inc., Meridian
Surveying & Engineering, Pt. San Pablo Yatch Club, Old Oakland Partners, ServiceMaster, Keep it Green, and
Teamwork Concepts, Inc.
