Austin Baillio is a partner at Maxwell & Morgan, P.C. bringing his robust legal experience to represent community associations in a variety of ways, including contract disputes, general counsel, revisions to governing documents, enforcement issues, and collections in California and Nevada.
Due to his extensive litigation experience, Austin is also a highly valued member of the firm’s litigation and insurance defense departments. Austin represents his community association clients in simple and complex litigation, administrative law proceedings with the Department of Real Estate, and fair housing claims. Austin’s clients appreciate his consistent counsel, creative thinking, and quality of service.
Austin received his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2010. Austin also became a member of the Order of the Coif and earned a certificate from the Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law—a program integrating the study of law, business, real estate, and technology. While at Pepperdine, Austin served as an editor on the Law Review competed with the Moot Court team in Emory, Georgia, and was awarded “Best Advocate” in the Vincent S. Dalsimer Moot Court Competition held at Pepperdine University.
Austin started his litigation career dabbling in a breadth of practice areas at a small firm in West Los Angeles, California. He then moved to Orange County, California where he worked as an associate attorney in a medium sized firm and defended one of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers in foreclosure related lawsuits. Austin left California and brought his 6 years of litigation experience to Maxwell & Morgan, P.C. in 2016.
Austin was named a rising star by the Southern California Super Lawyers organization three years in a row—an honor bestowed on only the top 2.5 percent of attorneys under age forty.
