PRACTICE AREAS

As a Receiver, Sheila has worked across over 50 cities and counties in California and her firm, CRG, has provided solutions to over 200 different dilapidated properties and counting, with appointments by 113 different Superior Court judges and one United States District Court judge. With experience in health and safety, hazmat abatement, judgment enforcement, and rents and profits receiverships, no other receiver in California offers the breadth and experience of CRG.

As a CRG attorney, the legal team focuses on both legal drafting and litigation while simultaneously is involved in operations as the point person and team leader for remediation efforts on severely dilapidated properties. CRG's innovative approach includes litigating in both State and Federal court, hiring contractors and cleanup crews, and managing properties ranging from single family residences to large apartment complexes and motels. Examples of various projects include orchestrating the removal of 1,100 tons (2.4 million pounds) of debris from one 5-acre site (including $170,000 in recycling revenue); remediating an apartment building overrun by drug dealing and prostitution; recovering $120,000 from a mortgage fraud perpetrator on behalf of a 75-year-old previous owner; and managing a 267-pad mobile home park housing over 3,000 migrant farmworkers. Appointed on approximately 10 motels throughout the state, including the 73,000 square foot Saddleback Inn in Santa Ana, which was demolished after a fire; a dilapidated historic Route 66 motel in Needles, which was opened to the county fire department for training purposes; a large, thoroughly-vandalized hotel in Palmdale that will be brought back up to code and reopened; and a century-old hotel in Oroville that was cleared of drug dealers and vagrants, then revitalized to become housing for a local college; and a former drug den operating next to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, now developing to become classrooms for drug abuse recovery and prevention.