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California’s
Leading Legal Team
Our legal team is the envy of brokerages throughout
California. Led by our General Counsel Martha Mosier (center),
Assistant Counsel Stella Ling (far left) and Associate Counsel
Vicki Boynton (right of center), our team has decades of
industry experience specializing in administrative and
transactional real estate regulations and law. Their strength
is a benefit to you and every agent at Berkshire Hathaway
HomeServices California Properties.
Martha J. Mosier
STELLA H. LING, ESQ.
Assistant Counsel
Associate Counsel
Serving as General Counsel for Berkshire
Hathaway HomeServices California Properties,
Martha Mosier specializes in administrative and
transactional real estate regulations and law.
Martha attended Stephens College in Columbia
Missouri and after Graduating from Thomas
Jefferson School of Law in 1992, Martha clerked
for the California Attorney General’s Office in
San Diego, Criminal Writs and Appeals Division,
4th Appellate District. Martha obtained her
Real Estate Broker’s License in 1996 and joined
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage/Reology
(CBRB) as litigation counsel where she
successfully defended CBRB agents for 11
years. Martha has been a part of the Prudential
California/BHHSCP Legal team for six years and
is a four year member of the San Diego Risk
Management Committee, Real Estate Fraud
Task Force and a Member of the OC Real Estate
Section of the California Bar Association. Martha
is on the Strategic Defense Panel for C.A.R. and is
the vice president of The Charitable Foundation,
the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California
Property agent outreach nonprofit.
Stella H. Ling, Esq. is Managing Senior Counsel
for the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF
REALTORS® (C.A.R.). She has been with C.A.R.
since 1998. Stella helps manage C.A.R.’s
Member Legal Hotline which provides
one-on-one legal advice to over 160,000 real
estate agents and brokers. She is the legal
editor of Realegal® which is an e-newsletter
that provides new legal developments to
members. She also writes the monthly legal
column for C.A.R.’s California Real Estate
magazine and responds to legal Q&As for
other legal publications. Stella visits real estate
offices and local boards and associations
throughout California to give legal updates
to members. More recently, Stella started
hosting an interactive legal webinar every
month for REALTORS®.
Victoria Boynton has extensive experience
in the commercial and residential brokerage
area as well as general corporate and
litigation. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney,
she prosecuted high-level drug cases and
represented the government on civil tort
claims. Prior to entering into the real estate
domain, Victoria handled litigation matters
successfully through trial; many resulted in
verdicts in excess of five hundred thousand
dollars. She served as in-house counsel for
The Upper Deck Company, a top rated sports
memorabilia company as well as a North
County developer who owned golf courses,
resorts and commercial shopping centers in
San Diego County. She has been with Pickford
Realty as Associate General Counsel since 2007.
General Counsel
Stella received her undergraduate degree
in economics and biology from Occidental
College in Los Angeles. She received her
Juris Doctorate from UCLA School of Law.
Victoria Boynton
Ms. Boynton received her B.A., magna cum
laude, from the University of MassachusettsAmherst and her J.D. from California Western
School of Law. She has successfully
completed several mediation trainings
with the San Diego Association of Realtors,
American Arbitration Association and the
California Association of Realtors.
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