Firm Overview

The attorneys at Gilmore Wood Vinnard & Magness maintain a sophisticated practice offering exceptional legal counsel without big firm attitude or big city rates. We take our role as a trusted advisor to, and advocate for, our clients very seriously. If the matter is important enough to the client to engage our services, then it deserves our complete focus, effort and attention to detail.

Attorneys > Russell O. Wood

Russell O. Wood

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Practice Areas

Mr. Wood engages in a general business and estate planning practice, with emphasis on real estate transactions. He has extensive experience in commercial sales and financing transactions, formation and operation of business entities, sales of businesses, and estate planning and administration.

Mr. Wood's real estate practice emphasizes complex purchase, sale and financing transactions, and representation of real estate developers. His work includes advice, negotiation, and documentation concerning the following types of commercial real estate transactions: (1) real property purchases and sales, frequently (although not exclusively) involving multi-million dollar transactions, including option agreements, tax deferred exchanges, and negotiation of purchase price under threat of condemnation; (2) leases on behalf of landlords and tenants, frequently involving regional and national tenants; (3) joint operation and easement agreements for commercial and office development projects; (4) complex development agreements with city governments, including the use of government grants to fund off-site improvements; (5) agreements resolving hazardous materials contamination problems; (6) construction contracts; (7) representation of borrowers and lenders in commercial and agricultural financing transactions; and (8) receiverships and enforcement of security interests.

Previous Work

Law Clerk to Hon. Edward J. Schwartz, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 1983-84

Education

California State University, Fresno, B. Arts, Economics, 1979
University of California, Berkeley, M.B.A., Accounting, 1983
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1983, Order of the Coif

Court Admissions

Mr. Wood is admitted to practice before all California courts and the United States District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of California.

Professional Associations

American Bar Association
California Bar Association
Fresno County Bar Association, where he has served as a member of the Real Estate Roundtable, the Business Law Section Steering Committee, and the Fresno County Law Library Acquisitions Advisory Committee

Mr. Wood has presented and co-authored numerous course material books for continuing education programs for attorneys and accountants.

Community Involvement

Mr. Wood has served as an officer and member of the Board of Directors of numerous non-profit organizations.