Miltner Polk & Menck, APC

Teresa L. Polk

Teresa Polk has been a senior associate of Miltner Polk & Menck, APC, since its founding. With 25 years of legal experience, she has represented clients in transactional matters and litigation. Her transactional expertise includes the formation of business entities and the intellectual property concerns of small companies. Her litigation expertise includes complex construction litigation as well as other business-related litigation such as real property, title insurance, surety, employment law, and creditors' rights in bankruptcy.

Ms. Polk earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and went on to obtain her Juris Doctorate degree from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. While in law school, Ms. Polk was active in Moot Court and graduated in the top third of her class. She is admitted to practice law in the States of California and New York. She has handled litigation in urban and rural courts throughout the State of California, in all four U.S. District Courts in California, and in the Bankruptcy Courts. She has also practiced in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and has represented California clients pro hac vice in the States of Washington and Minnesota. She has handled out-of-state discovery matters in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Texas, Kentucky, and South Carolina.

She has also assisted clients in resolving numerous matters through such alternative dispute resolution processes as mediation, settlement conferences, early neutral evaluation, binding and non-binding arbitration, and trial by a private judge reserving rights to an appeal. Teresa has been successful in negotiating attractive settlements in technically complicated fact situations.

Prior to joining Miltner Polk & Menck, APC, Ms. Polk practiced law with the Law Offices of Charles J. Philipps; Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold; Buckner, Alani, Khouri, Chavos & Mirkovich; and Perkins & Miltner.

Practice Areas:

Construction Litigation
Business Litigation
Title Insurance and Lender Defense Litigation
Surety Litigation
Bankruptcy (Creditors' Rights)

Professional Affiliations:

American Bar Association
San Diego County Bar Association