Attorney Profiles

John R. Blakely is the managing partner of Kring & Chung's Sacramento and Ontario offices and has nearly two decades of business management and litigation experience. Mr. Blakely practices and supervises the offices' multi-party litigation, business litigation, estate planning, and probate practices.

Mr. Blakely's practical experience comes from managing a multi-million dollar construction company for over seven years that included supervising the company's accounting, payroll, insurance and job cost departments. This experience is coupled with an extensive business and legal education that Mr. Blakely received when he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration as well as his Masters degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance. This comprehensive business finance education was further enhanced when Mr. Blakely earned his Juris Doctorate degree with an emphasis in taxation.

Mr. Blakely's unique combination of business education and practical managerial experience enables comprehensive counseling to the firm's business clients. In addition, Mr. Blakely's finance and taxation background provides the basis for counseling business and personal clients in the areas of wills, trusts, estate management, probate, and business succession.

Mr. Blakely joined the Irvine office of Kring & Chung in 2000 as an associate attorney and was transferred in 2002 to lead the firm's Ontario branch office. On January 1, 2003, Mr. Blakely was named a partner of the firm and the managing partner of the firm's Ontario office. In June 2003, Mr. Blakely was named managing partner of the firm's Sacramento office. The Sacramento office handles a wide variety of litigation matters throughout Northern California.

Areas of Practice

• Business
• Construction
• Estate Planning
• Probate

Bar Admissions

• California, 1997
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1998
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1998
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1998
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1998

Education

• Western State University College of Law, Fullerton, California, 1997
  Juris Doctorate
  Major: Taxation
  
  
• University of Fullerton, Fullerton, California
  M.B.A.
  Major: Finance
  
  
• University of Fullerton, Fullerton, California
  Bachelor of Arts
  Major: Business Administration
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Kring & Chung, Associate Attorney, 2000

Languages

• English

Birth Information

• Los Angeles, California, United States of America