Fauver, Large, Archbald & Spray, LLP

About Fauver, Large, Archbald & Spray, LLP

Fauver, Large, Archbald & Spray, LLP is a Santa Barbara law firm that presents itself as strategic, practical, and creative in its approach to legal matters. Located at 820 State Street, 4th Floor, the firm serves a full spectrum of Central Coast clientele and describes working with clients whose legal affairs extend around the world. Its practice-area menu is broad: beverage and hospitality; business, corporate, and venture; civil litigation and trial work; estate and tax planning; intellectual property; labor and employment; land use and real estate; and public agency law.

The firm’s stated client-service philosophy emphasizes listening, understanding each client’s needs and industry, returning calls and emails daily, and adhering to high service protocols. It describes partnering with clients on business and individual legal matters and promoting core values in its client and community relations. For beverage and hospitality clients, the firm works with wineries, breweries, distilleries, bars, hotels, and restaurants on regulatory issues tied to producing, distributing, and selling alcoholic beverages, along with franchise programs, employee manuals, and litigation defense. Business work includes formative counseling, capital raising, and strategic exit planning. Estate and tax planning covers wills, living trusts, durable powers of attorney, and advance health care directives. Intellectual property capabilities include federal and state trademark searches, trademark and copyright filings, international protection through the PCT and Madrid Protocol, patent searches and prosecution, infringement opinions, oppositions, cancellations, concurrent rights, and enforcement including domain-name disputes. Land use and real estate work spans easements, view disputes, lot line adjustments, CC&Rs, purchase and sale agreements, public right-of-way disputes, eminent domain, partition actions, and zoning. Public agency work includes general and special counsel, litigation defense, administrative hearings, land use, and water law for government clients in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.

Public feedback is mixed. Across seven reviews, the firm holds a 3.60 rating. Positive reviews frequently highlight helpful, friendly, responsive service and business contract work, with several reviewers specifically recommending attorney Dallas Verhagen. Negative reviews raise concerns about professionalism and management and staff.

Some reviewers question professionalism and interactions with management or staff. Other clients praise Dallas Verhagen’s patient, responsive help with business contracts, contrasting with the critical service accounts.