Biography

G. Emmett Raitt, Jr.'s practice includes business, real estate and insurance litigation, with an emphasis on construction litigation, partnership and corporate disputes, real estate broker negligence and breach of fiduciary duty claims, and commercial and industrial landlord-tenant matters.  He has tried more than 20 civil jury trials, and literally hundreds of court trials, during his 34  years in practice.  He frequently serves as a Temporary Judge in the Orange County Superior Court, and is actively involved in the mediation and arbitration of business and real estate disputes.  

Mr. Raitt also has significant appellate experience, acting as lead appellate counsel on numerous matters including: [Frei v. Davey (2004) 124 Cal. App. 4th 1506; San Diego Watercrafts v. Wells Fargo Bank (2002) 102 Cal. App. 4th 308; Baldwin Co. v. Rainey Construction Co. (1991) 229 Cal. App. 3d 1053; Delgado v. Heritage Life Ins. Co. (1984)157 Cal. App. 3d 262; Del E. Webb Corp. v. Structural Materials Co. (1981) 123 Cal. App. 3d 593; Ralston Purina Co. v. County of Los Angeles (1976) 56 Cal. App. 3d 547.

Mr. Raitt was born and raised in Orange County, where his family has resided since 1884.  He graduated from Pomona College in 1972 with a B.A. in Economics and from the University of Southern California School of Law in 1975, where he was a senior staff member of the Southern California Law Review and the author of The Minor's Right to Consent to Medical Treatment: A Corollary to the Constitutional Right of Privacy, 48 S. CAL. L. REV. 1417 (1975). 

Mr. Raitt is a member of the State Bar of California, where he served on the State Bar Committee for Alternative Dispute Resolution, and of the Orange County Bar Association, where he is active with the Conference of Delegates and is a member of the Business Litigation and Real Estate Sections. 

Mr. Raitt lives with his wife and three children in Irvine, California.  In his spare time Mr. Raitt goes to, and opines about, the movies as the resident movie critic on the nationally-syndicated radio program, The Hugh Hewitt Show.