Twenty-year U.S. Navy veteran Mary Fickel founded Fickel & Davis in 2012 at 3254 Fourth Avenue in Hillcrest with partner Richard Davis, after the two litigated a multi-year bankruptcy case against each other from opposite sides — Fickel for creditors, Davis for debtors — before deciding to combine practices. The firm focuses on post-judgment enforcement, creditor representation, bankruptcy adversary proceedings, and civil litigation, work that overlaps the contested civil docket Kraus Law Corporation handles nearby. Fickel earned her J.D. cum laude from California Western School of Law in 2002 and lectures regularly on enforcement of judgments, enforcement of foreign money judgments, and creditor bankruptcy procedure, including before the Lewis M. Welsh Inn of Court. Davis received his J.D. from California Western in 2008 after holding NASD securities licenses as a financial advisor at AXA Advisors, a financial-services background that informs the firm's judgment-debtor asset investigation work — a forensic asset-tracing approach the commercial litigation bench at Arena Law Group also relies on. A separate cannabis law practice helps small California cultivators comply with CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing and Bureau of Cannabis Control regulations under MAUCRSA. The most complex engagements involve enforcement of large foreign-country money judgments under the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act, where domestication, asset tracing through layered LLC structures, and turnover orders against third-party custodians dictate whether the original judgment ever produces actual recovery.