Our Practice

Myra has been practicing law for over 35 years. She received her law degree, Cum Laude, from Fordham University School of Law in New York City. Upon graduating from law school in 1987, Myra began "cutting her teeth" at the New York firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges as an associate in its real estate department. She relocated to the Bay Area in 1989, where she developed her "West Coast chops" at Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson and Tatum's Palo Alto branch office. By the end of 1990, Myra decided that big-firm life wasn't her cup of tea on either coast, and joined the San Francisco boutique law firm of Stein, Lubin & Lerner (now Lubin, Olson & Niewiadomski LLP) where she practiced real estate and general business law for another 4-1/2  years. Myra left Stein Lubin in May 1995 to launch her own solo practice in Oakland.

Myra served as an Articles Editor for the California Real Property Journal and currently serves as an annual update editor to CEB on its Ground Lease Practice, Office Leasing, and Retail Leasing titles. She was a Co-Chair of the Alameda County Bar Association's Business Law section and for several years volunteered as a scorer for the Philip A. Harley Memorial Mock Trial Competition. For over ten years, Myra was a member of Provisors, a highly-regarded community of professionals who serve their clients as trusted advisors.

In her spare time, Myra wrote and self-published six contemporary multicultural fiction novels under the pen name, "Sheryl Sorrentino".  Chock full of her signature irreverent language and other  “un-lawyerly” matter, Sheryl Sorrentino's novels take readers on a  brazen, fun ride. Visit https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sheryl+sorrentino&ref=nb_sb_noss for a look at Sheryl's books. 

Peter is a business and employment attorney in Los Angeles.  He works with Myra on a myriad of business and real estate matters, including M&A, contract review, formation and dissolution.  Peter also manages his own law practice, primarily focusing on Southern California businesses (https://www.hlf-la.com).  Prior to starting his law practice, Peter was the Vice President of Legal and Human Resources at Popcornopolis, a gourmet snack and popcorn company.  Additionally, Peter has significant experience as a litigator with a focus on civil rights and commercial litigation.

Brigid Brookman is another big-firm refugee who, after having worked at two large L.A. law firms, as well as serving as in-house counsel for a fully integrated REIT in the healthcare sector, came to MSMLaw as an independent contractor through The Mom Project. Brigid has represented public companies, private equity funds, developers, and property operators. She has deep experience handling complex purchase and sale transactions, real estate financings, joint ventures, asset management, leasing, regulatory matters and asset purchases and sales. A veritable powerhouse of proficiency and skill, Brigid obtained her J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 2008.