Benjamin Z. Rubin

Ben Rubin assists clients on a variety of land use and eminent domain related issues, including matters dealing with the Federal and State Endangered Species Act, the California Environmental Quality Act, local zoning variances, right-to-take challenges, valuation of property interests, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Before joining Nossaman, Mr. Rubin was a law clerk to the Honorable Andrew J. Guilford, United States District Judge. He also served as an intern for the Honorable Patrick J. Walsh, United States Magistrate Judge.

Mr. Rubin regularly comments on news, events, and policies affecting endangered species issues in California and throughout the United States on the Firm's Endangered Species Law & Policy blog.

Representative Work

Winchester 700 LLC v. Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority  Part of a team that represented the owner of a 454-acre property in Riverside County that the Regional Conservation Authority ("RCA") deemed necessary for conservation as part of its Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan. As a result of this determination, the RCA effectively froze Winchester's development entitlements, but never made a specific offer to purchase. Under threat of an inverse condemnation action, RCA agreed to arbitrate the matter. In the arbitration the RCA presented appraisal testimony of a value below $30 million. After the completion of the arbitration, but before the award was issued, the parties reached a settlement by which the RCA paid more than $70 million.