Area of Focus
Private Landowners Facing Property Condemnation
Nossaman's Eminent Domain and Valuation Practice Group has an unrivaled track record of success in representing California landowners. Nossaman has a prominent, state-wide reputation for creative, competent, and efficient representation of the targets of eminent domain.
Nossaman attorneys - who comprise one of the largest single eminent domain groups in the State - regularly achieve top-notch results in condemnation proceedings, starting even before the government files the action and continuing through trial and, if necessary, appeal.
More specifically, Nossaman attorneys have expertise in the following areas:
- Precondemnation planning and possession issues
- Unreasonable government pre-litigation and litigation tactics
- Right-to-take challenges
- Damages arising from precondemnation delay and blight
- Real property valuation
- Severance damages in situations where the government acquires only part of the property
- Mediations, arbitrations, court trials, and jury trials
- Appeals before the Courts of Appeal and the California Supreme Court
Nossaman attorneys have prepared a booklet that describes generally the eminent domain process and the types of compensation to which landowners and business owners may be entitled. Click for a printable version of Nossaman's Eminent Domain Guide.
The successes of Nossaman's Eminent Domain and Valuation Practice Group consistently garner attention throughout California. Our condemnation experience includes presenting creative valuation theories for a broad range of property types. We have expertise litigating cases involving raw, undeveloped land (including agricultural land, open space, and land ripe for future development); commercial properties ranging from small, single-tenant properties to massive, multi-tenant shopping centers; residential properties ranging from single-family homes to apartment buildings with hundreds of units; and all types of industrial properties.
Nossaman attorneys have tried scores of jury and court trials, have argued dozens of cases before the Courts of Appeal and California Supreme Court, and have negotiated settlements short of trial in hundreds of other cases. Our results speak for themselves.