Pappas Stephen R. Atty

Palo Alto, United States

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Telephone:
+1 650-858-8400
Website:
www.stephenpappas.com
Address:
550 S California Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
0.4 miCalifornia Avenue
1.1 mi#199 - 3145 Porter Drive
1.1 miMarguerite - Y Route To Tresidder Union Arrillaga Alumni Center
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Local time (Palo Alto) 06:38 Wednesday, 4 June 2025

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Monday 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
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Description

Specialties

Business formation (incorporations, LLC’s, etc.) and counseling (corporate governance, contract preparation, employment, insurance, leasing, sales, warranty issues, etc.); business litigation; major personal injury litigation. Trial lawyer.

History

Established in 1994.

Big firm training, small firm prices. After leaving the large Seattle law firm where I received my training in business and personal injury litigation, I briefly joined a small firm in Palo Alto and took an insurance bad faith case to trial where we received a $ 13.3 million verdict which was upheld on appeal. I’ve been going it on my own ever since, representing small and medium sized businesses as outside general counsel as well as providing the aforementioned litigation services.

Meet the Business Owner

Steve P.

Business Owner

Palo Alto H.S., Class of 1977

BA, Stanford University, Sociology, 1981

JD, Boalt Hall School of Law (Cal Berkeley), 1984

Recent activities:

Director, Palo Alto Area Bar Association

Attorney Coach, Palo Alto High School Mock Trial Team (2008 Santa Clara County Champions)

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5 reviews of Pappas Stephen R. Atty

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Place rating: 5
San Mateo, CA
Steve put together a pretty robust contract for us. When we went to use it, our counterpart pushed back on some provisions. Once I provided the feedback to Steve he indicated that he had build a redundancy into the contract, and that we were able to comply with the counterpart’s requests and still be fully protected. Now that’s skill. Building the negotiation «gimme’s» right into the initial version. Nice work, Steve. Thank you. I can recommend Steve without reservation.
Place rating: 5
Palo Alto, CA
I saw Steve Pappas for some business related legal questions. I found him to be knowledgeable, helpful, efficient, and very professional. Not only did he know a tremendous amount about business legalities, the one question of many he didn’t feel entirely confident about, he researched and faxed me a relevant document the same day! Excellent service, would gladly go to him in the future. Thanks!
Place rating: 5
Aptos, CA
I hired Steve for a business issue I was having and Steve was very responsive and was able to get the other party to change thier direction and cooperate. Steve has great integrity and I would refer him to anyone needing business law and litigation matters.
Place rating: 5
Emeryville, CA
Big Thank You Steve!!!
He worked on incorporating my company and setting up an LLC. Gave him all the necessary info and he just took care of it. The old saying: You find out how good is somebody when there is a problem. When California State License Board made a mistake with the application, Steve handled it in a timely manner with persistent follow ups, and they can take forever.
One more time Thank you for the great service.
Place rating: 5
Los Altos, CA
A Super Huge 5 Star +++ Recommendation for Stephen Pappas!
I work at a Commercial Insurance Brokerage, we had a terrible situation with a client who was really sick & an Insurance Company not willing to pay for the correct treatment needed.
Enter Steve Pappas, looked at the situation from all sides, successfully in one letter (repeat, one letter) explained to the Insurance Company why it was in their best interest to take care of the customer ASAP, not 6 months down the road, in was incredible.
The bottomline, the customer is happy, alive & thinks Steve is the best Atty around… and I do to.
If you have legal needs, get on the phone to Steve, we did & truly feel no one else could have done a better job!