Professional Experience

Deborah Bronner earned her B.A. degree in psychology from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1973. In 1983, Deborah received her Juris Doctorate from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. She has been practicing in California for over thirty‑five years.

After law school, Deborah worked for a national legal editor writing articles on state tax issues for accountants and lawyers.

Deborah initially gained experience in the field of bankruptcy working for a law firm that represented debtors. She then branched into civil litigation, working for law firms that specialized in personal injury defense.

Deborah started her own practice in 1995 based on representing businesses and business owners who were in dispute with their suppliers and/or clients, as well as disputes involving real estate brokers and mortgages.

The current focus of the Law Offices of Deborah R. Bronner is on the following three areas of the law: Estate Planning, real estate deed transfers and obtaining recovery of surplus funds for foreclosed homeowners and their heirs.

Deborah's Estate Planning clients have consistently expressed appreciation for her sensitivity to family issues, her attention to detail and her efficiency.

Deborah's practice combines her knowledge and expertise of inheritance planning, Trusts and Probate Law with her knowledge and expertise of real estate. Deborah has represented numerous clients with complicated surplus funds cases that resulted in a full recovery.

When the mortgage crisis started in 2008, Deborah began specializing in assisting distressed homeowners who were struggling to keep their homes, were behind in their mortgage payments, or had lost their home in a foreclosure sale. Deborah's practice offered a four-prong approach to providing foreclosure defense legal services: defaulted loan work-outs with the lender, bankruptcy, eviction defense, and lawsuits for wrongful foreclosure. Deborah understands that the deck is stacked against the distressed homeowner and knows how imperative it is that she provide sophisticated and experienced legal services for each individual client. She has successfully settled over 1,000 cases for clients who had previously been struggling to keep their homes and saved many of them hundreds of thousands of dollars. Also, Deborah helped close to a hundred clients regroup after losing a home and in many of these cases, has obtained a rescission of the foreclosure sale.

Professional Memberships

  • • State Bar of California
  • • U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of California

Education

  • • J.D., 1983, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA
  • • Master of Science in Urban Studies, 1980, University of New Orleans
  • • B.A., 1973, Clark University, Worcester, MA