Local Expertise. Professional Service.

Being residents of Oceanside for many years, we realized the community needed a full service law firm focused on delivering personalized service to the businesses within our unique City.  As a result, we founded O’Side Law providing professional legal and real estate advice coupled with local knowledge and spirit.

Michael Grehl 

San Diego local and lifelong surfer, Mike has dedicated over 15 years to the San Diego business and real estate industries as a broker, developer, attorney, and investor.  He attended Duke University, graduating cum laude in May 2000, with degrees in both Economics and English. Afterward he attend the University of San Diego School of Law where he received the Law Alumni Scholarship and was an editor for the International Law Journal.   Mike began his career at the La Jolla office of Colliers International as an Investment Analyst for the firm’s Institutional Investment Group.   Within 6 months of arriving at Colliers, Mike had participated in the sale of over $50,000,000 of property and received his Real Estate Broker License from the California Bureau of Real Estate.  After several years with Colliers, he joined the Real Estate & Land Use Group of the heralded international law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton.  There, Mike represented Sony, KB Home, Ritz Carlton, Shea Properties, Lennar and others in all aspects of their real estate endeavors.  In time, he was recruited by a private equity firm, M&H Realty/Merlone Geier Partners, to lead their urban infill redevelopment projects in California.  Over the course of a decade as a partner and in-house counsel at the company, Mike acquired, entitled, redeveloped, and leased millions of square feet of retail and office space along with thousands of residential units from Southern California to the Bay Area with a cumulative value in excess of several billion dollars.  After years of working within large corporate environments, Mike decided to combine his professional experience with his passion for the community of Oceanside, CA.  Thus, O'Side Law was born.