Daniel W. Ballesteros

Daniel W. Ballesteros is a San Jose litigation attorney who focuses on real estate and business disputes involving purchases, sales, leasing, secured lending, ownership, and property use. He represents businesses, LLCs, partnerships, and individuals in litigation, arbitration, and mediation. His work includes nondisclosure claims, wrongful foreclosure matters, partition actions, boundary disputes, easement conflicts, nuisance claims, ADA litigation, and disagreements involving business governance, profits, and property rights in California legal proceedings.

Daniel earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law and his B.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University. His education supports legal analysis, persuasive advocacy, and practical problem-solving in complex commercial and property disputes. He applies that training when interpreting agreements, evaluating ownership interests, reviewing evidence, and developing strategies for litigation, arbitration, mediation, and negotiations involving significant real estate and business concerns and disputes.

Daniel has represented buyers, sellers, brokers, lenders, property owners, business owners, and investors in disputes. His recent matters include a partition action involving a 40-unit apartment building, a nondisclosure claim tied to a $14 million property purchase, a $6.5 million lender claim, and litigation involving a $20 million retail mall. He also handles ADA accessibility claims, governance disputes, construction-related conflicts, and other contested real estate matters in California courts statewide.

Daniel W. Ballesteros has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America from 2013 through 2026 and Northern California Super Lawyers across numerous years through 2026. He also holds an AV Preeminent peer review rating. His professional service includes leadership in California real property law organizations, teaching trial advocacy and real estate programs, and speaking on disclosure duties, partition actions, arbitration, mediation, evidence, attorney fees, and litigation risk management.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel
• Member, The State Bar of California
• Member, American Inns of Court
• Member, San Jose Downtown Association
• Member,  San Jose Sports Hall of Fame board
• Founding Member, Highly Successful Downtown San Jose Tour
• Chair, Santa Clara County Bar Association’s Real Property Law Section
• Executive Committee Member, State Bar of California, Real Property Law Section

Licensed State

• California

Education

• University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Stanford University
  Bachelor of Arts

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