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DS Westgate Law
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Est. Counsel · Irvine, California

Measured counsel.
Decisive advocacy.
Results that endure.

For more than two decades, DS Westgate Law has represented businesses, families, and individuals before the courts of California — with the discipline of a trial firm and the discretion of trusted counsel.

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I. The Firm

A practice built on precision,
preserved by principle.

Founded on the conviction that sound counsel is the product of rigorous preparation, intellectual honesty, and an unwavering loyalty to the client's interest.

DS Westgate Law, APC is a California professional corporation serving a discerning clientele throughout the State and, through its bilingual practice, the broader Pacific community. The firm's work spans the full arc of civil litigation, from the drafting of the pleading to the verdict at trial, and extends into the quieter chambers of transactional, employment, family, and immigration counsel.

The firm maintains a deliberate scale. Matters are not apportioned to junior associates by default; they are prepared under the direct supervision of the attorney who will argue them. This arrangement is uncommon. It is, we believe, the arrangement our clients deserve.

Clients retain DS Westgate Law when the matter before them is consequential — when the outcome will shape a business, a family, a livelihood, or a future in the United States — and when the representation must be handled with both force and restraint.

We answer that call.

Rami Kayyali
Rami Kayyali
Supervising Attorney
II. Practice Areas

Five disciplines.
One standard of work.

The firm's practice is structured around five complementary disciplines, each led with the same rigor and client-centered attention.

i.

Civil Litigation

Commercial disputes, contract actions, shareholder controversies, real-property matters, and complex fiduciary claims — prosecuted and defended in California's trial and appellate courts.

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Employment Law

Counsel to employees and employers on wage-and-hour claims, wrongful termination, FEHA discrimination, PAGA exposure, misclassification under the ABC Test, and workplace investigations.

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iii.

Family Law

Dissolution of marriage, custody and support, marital property division, and the negotiation of settlement agreements — with a particular sensitivity to international and cross-cultural families.

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iv.

Criminal Defense

Representation in misdemeanor and select felony matters, DUI proceedings, and the collateral immigration consequences that attend criminal charges for non-citizen clients.

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Immigration

Investor and employment-based petitions — EB-1A, EB-1C, EB-5, E-2, NIW, and O-1 — alongside family petitions, consular processing, and removal defense.

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A Bilingual Practice

Substantive counsel in English and Mandarin Chinese — contracts, pleadings, declarations, and client communications — without the filter of translation.

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Rami Kayyali, Supervising Attorney
Supervising Attorney
III. The Attorney

Rami Kayyali, Esq.

Supervising Attorney · California Bar №. 201579

Mr. Kayyali practices across the firm's principal disciplines, with a particular concentration in complex civil litigation, employment matters, and the cross-border issues that arise for the firm's international clientele. He has appeared before the Superior Courts of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Santa Clara counties.

His practice is defined by thorough preparation, a precise command of the written record, and a disposition toward resolution where resolution serves the client — and toward trial where it does not.

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State Bar of California
Languages
English · Arabic
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California Superior & Federal Courts
Focus
Civil · Employment · Immigration
IV. Our Approach

The way we work.

Three principles govern the firm's representation of every client, in every matter, without exception.

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Preparation

Every case is built from the documentary record outward. We prepare as if we are going to trial — because, when necessary, we will.

ii

Plain Counsel

Clients receive the firm's honest assessment of their position, including its weaknesses. We do not oversell matters, nor do we understate what is at stake.

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Discretion

The firm's work is conducted quietly. Matters are handled with the confidentiality they require and the respect our clients are owed.

They treated our case as if it were their own, and wrote with the clarity of people who had lived inside the facts. When the hearing came, it was already won on the papers.
A Client of the Firm Commercial Litigation · 2025
V. The Journal

Notes & Commentary

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Civil Litigation

The Pleading as Pretext: What Case-Management Conferences Really Decide

By the time a matter reaches its first Trial Setting Conference, the shape of the dispute is often already decided — not by the pleadings themselves, but by what surrounds them.

April 2026 · 8 min Read →
Employment

After Dynamex: Where the ABC Test Still Breaks Down for California Employers

AB5's adoption of the ABC Test was not the end of the misclassification inquiry in California. For certain industries, it was the beginning of a more difficult one.

March 2026 · 11 min Read →
Immigration

The Holding-Entity Problem: Offshore Structures and E-2 Nationality

A Cayman or BVI parent in the ownership chain is not, in itself, fatal to an E-2 petition — but it is almost never neutral. A brief note on how consular officers read the stack.

February 2026 · 7 min Read →

The first conversation is confidential.
It is also, often, the most important.

Speak with the firm about your matter. Initial consultations are conducted by the supervising attorney, in English or Chinese, at our offices in Irvine or by secure video.

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