Michael J. Saltz

Michael J. Saltz is a name partner of the Los Angeles-based firm Jacobson, Russell, Saltz, & Fingerman LLP. He specializes in real estate as well as business litigation, real estate litigation, class actions, complex litigation, and Consumer Credit Reporting matters.

Mr. Saltz formerly worked in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. He now works in the private sector in California in both the litigation and appellate arenas. He has had multiple opinions published on his cases out of the Second and Fourth District Courts of Appeal.

Since 1998, Mr. Saltz has lent his expertise to the Narcotic Enforcement Unit of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office in a teaching capacity, giving advice on evicting convicted drug dealers and narcotic users from apartment buildings. He has also represented major real estate companies, including The Irvine Company and its various subsidiaries, as well as credit bureaus that service landlords, such as The U.D. Registry, Inc., First Advantage SafeRent, First American Registry, Inc. and the Apartment Owners Association.

Of late, Mr. Saltz' more high-profile cases include The U.D. Registry, Inc. v. State of California, wherein certain California statutes were declared unconstitutional, and a nationwide class action against the printer manufacturer EPSON (Reiff v. EPSON). Mr. Saltz and his litigation team successfully obtained a settlement providing a benefit worth approximately $900 million to nearly twenty (20) million consumers.

Mr. Saltz has been a delegate to the Association of Credit Bureaus as a member of its Political Action Committee, which was instrumental in the revisions to the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act; he currently serves on the legislative committee for the National Association of Screening Agencies. He also sits on the Board of Gateways Hospital in Los Angeles, California and is himself both a commercial and residential landlord.

Mr. Saltz co-authored the Matthew Bender Practice Guide: California Landlord-Tenant Litigation, published by Lexis-Nexis, and also regularly lectures and publishes articles regarding landlord-tenant issues for various apartment associations and Lawyer.com.

In 2009, Mr. Saltz has also been named as a Super Lawyer Rising Star in June 2009, as picked by Los Angeles Magazine.

After graduating from the University of Arizona, Mr. Saltz received his Juris Doctor from the University of West Los Angeles. He is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before the California Central District Court, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.