Partner
Heather Blackinton is a partner in the Litigation and Trial group at Rutan & Tucker in Irvine who represents companies and individuals in a wide range of disputes. Her cases involve construction contracts, contractor licensing, creditors' rights, breach of fiduciary duty and trust, trade secret misappropriation, business ownership and separation, landlord-tenant relationships, and breach of contract. She manages litigation from discovery through trial and appeal, serving as both lead counsel and second chair. She has substantial experience representing lenders and borrowers, including banks and individuals, in disputes over real estate secured debt and personal guarantees. That work involves California's anti-deficiency and one-form-of-action rules. She also works with the firm's infrastructure and public-private partnership and intellectual property litigation practices. She earned her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law and her B.A., magna cum laude, from UC Irvine.
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