Client Successes

We represented a public pension system in its acquisition of a multi-floor office building for use as its headquarters.

We helped a regional real estate developer and an institutional investor form a new entity to jointly develop projects in the Mid-Atlantic.

We represented our medical group client through a corporate restructuring that would allow it to admit new partners.

We helped WSDOT replace a key element of the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct with a state of the art tunnel to better manage traffic while opening prime waterfront real estate for development.

We represented Sonoma County Employees' Retirement Association through the superior and appellate court proceedings that affirmed that plaintiff's challenge to the payment of increased public employee pension benefits was barred by the statute of limitations.

We helped LCRA Transmission Services obtain an incidental take permit under the Endangered Species Act that encompasses 22 species of wildlife and covers 95% of Texas counties.

We defended the City of Bakersfield in several CEQA challenges to planned regional transportation system improvements.

We advised Australia and New Zealand’s largest independent valuation professional services firm on its strategic partnership with Apex Appraisal Service, Inc.

We worked with leading California water associations to negotiate amendments to the recently adopted Waters of the State regulations to provide an exclusion for ongoing water supply and flood control related activities.

We helped Ventura Water obtain unanimous City Council approval of the VenturaWaterPure Project as well as certification of the project's EIR.

We are lead federal environmental litigation counsel for the largest single highway project in Arizona history, the $1.8 billion South Mountain Freeway Project.

We obtained summary judgment from San Joaquin Superior Court in an over $200 million class action lawsuit brought against the San Joaquin County Employees’ Retirement Association and its Board of Retirement by a certified class of nearly 1,800 people.

We recently prevailed in a trial in the Western District of Washington regarding a claim against State Farm.

The cost of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Green Line Extension Project was ballooning.  They turned to us for help finding a more effective project delivery method.

We assisted Oakmont Senior Living LLC, a leading provider of assisted living and memory care facilities in California and Nevada, in the $399 million sale of eight senior living facilities to HCP, Inc.

We helped a businessman get his IRS penalties abated, in full, which approximated $300,000.