John L. Hosack is a Shareholder in the Firm’s Los Angeles office and Co-Chair of Buchalter’s Title Insurance & Escrow Industry Group. He represents secured lenders and property owners at trial and on appeal in complex real property disputes, including lender liability, fraud, class actions, breaches of contract, wrongful foreclosures, mechanic’s liens, stop notices, judicial foreclosures, receiverships, escrow claims and title insurance claims. His transactional practice includes commercial real property loan documentation, loan workouts, REO sales and foreclosures.

Mr. Hosack, who is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale Hubbell, has been selected as one of Southern California’s Super Lawyers from 2006 to 2024 and was also selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer, Corporate Counsel Edition from 2009 to 2024. He has also been selected by Who’s Who Legal USA from 2002 to 2024 as “one of the USA’s leading practitioners” in the field of real estate.

On September 24, 2016, the American College of Mortgage Attorneys awarded Mr. Hosack a plaque to recognize his twenty years of leadership of the College’s Program Committee. In recognition of his decades of contributions to continuing legal education, the California Continuing Education of the Bar awarded Mr. Hosack the Spirit of CEB Award. He has been a lecturer and a speaker for numerous organizations including the American Bar Association, State Bar of California, California Continuing Education of the Bar, University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, Pasadena Bar Association, Beverly Hills Bar Association and the California Mortgage Association.

  • R.E. Loans v. Investors Warranty of America (2013) 212 Cal. App. 4th 1432 (counsel for Investors Warranty of America , et. al)
  • First American Title Insurance Company v. David Ordin et. al (2011) 2011 Cal. App. Unpub. Lexis 6946 (counsel for David Ordin, et. al)
  • Paveco Construction, Inc. v. East West Bank (2011) 2011 Cal. App. Unpub. Lexis 3344 (counsel for East West Bank)
  • Jerve M. Jones et al. v. Union Bank of California (2005) 127 Cal.App.4th 542 (counsel for Union Bank of California, N.A.)
  • Jerve M. Jones, et al. v. First American Title Insurance Company, et al. (2003) 107 Cal.App.4th 381 (counsel for Union Bank of California, N.A.)
  • William Little v. Community Bank (1991) 234 Ca1.App.3d 355 (counsel for Community Bank)

From 1962 to 1965, Mr. Hosack performed his undergraduate school studies at the University of Washington. From 1965 to 1968, Mr. Hosack performed his graduate school studies at the University of San Francisco School of Law and graduated in 1968 with a Juris Doctor degree.

  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • California Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of California
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California
  • Co-chair, Buchalter’s Title Insurance & Escrow Industry Group
  • Member, American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Title Insurance Committee
  • Co-Chair, Program Committee, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, 1996-2016
  • Co-Chair, Title Insurance Committee, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, 2016-2023
  • Chair, Title Insurance Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association, 2001-2002
  • Chair, Lender’s Counsel Group of the American Land Title Association, 2000
  • Chair, San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association, 1981

Additional Specialties

Real Estate Transactions
Real Property Litigation
Title Insurance