State Bar #167824 and a California DRE Broker license combine in Kirk Yake, a USD School of Law graduate licensed since 1993 who opened the Law Office of Kirk D. Yake on Newport Ave in 2013 after trial-practice partnerships dating to 1994. Construction-defect mediation is the signature practice, handling slope failures, water intrusion, mold, roofing defects, and soils subsidence in multi-party HOA and single-family disputes — work that regularly examines the design-and-build scope of firms such as CairnsCraft Design & Remodel on the expert-report side. Mediator credentials include the Straus Institute at Pepperdine (2012), National Conflict Resolution Center credentialing (2008), and panels at ADR Services, the American Arbitration Association, West Coast Resolution Group, and the San Diego Superior Court civil mediation program. Arbitration assignments run through the California Contractors State License Board, the BBB Auto Line lemon-law panel, and the San Diego County Bar Association fee-arbitration panel. Real-estate and HOA-governance disputes tie into rental and community-association files handled by firms including Rest & Relax Real Estate | Property Management, alongside wills, living trusts, health care directives, and pro bono Wills for Heroes preparation for veterans and first responders. The most complex matters are multi-week construction-defect arbitrations where Kirk, drawing on 25+ years of jury-trial experience and his real-estate broker license, weighs competing expert testimony on soils, hydrology, and building-science issues to reach a binding arbitration ruling.