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Mr. Pannone, an equity partner with our Firm, has practiced municipal law for over thirty years. He is currently city attorney for the cities of Baldwin Park, Bellflower and Lompoc and general counsel for the redevelopment activities of Baldwin Park, Bellflower, and Lompoc. He also services the City of Culver City, City of El Centro, and Town of Mammoth Lakes, as special counsel. He was contract city attorney for the City of Palos Verdes Estates from January, 2008 to April, 2010 and for the City of South Pasadena and General Counsel for that community’s redevelopment agency from September, 1998 to September, 2003. He was in-house City Attorney, as well as Deputy and Assistant City Attorney, for the City of Culver City from 1980 through 1989 (the year when he joined another public law firm). He has created and presented programs on personal and professional ethics to several professional organizations, including the League of California Cities’ annual Planning Conference and City Attorney’s Department.
During his career, Mr. Pannone has advised city councils, redevelopment agency boards, planning commissions, personnel boards and numerous other city-boards and commissions. He has experience with all aspects of municipal and redevelopment law, including civil and criminal litigation, ordinance, resolution and contract preparation and interpretation, code enforcement, personnel matters, the Brown Act and Public Records Act, Political Reform Act, redevelopment plans adoptions and amendments, property acquisition strategy and negotiations, issuance of bonds, general plan updates & amendments, administrative law and all land use matters.
Mr. Pannone has been a featured speaker at several professional conferences. He published articles in the Los Angeles County Bar magazine, Los Angeles Lawyer, regarding “takings law” and ethical issues facing public sector attorneys. He was co-counsel in Ehrlich v. Culver City (1996) 12 Cal. 4th 854, in which the California Supreme Court upheld the authority of cities to impose public art programs and development conditions being challenged as unconstitutional takings. He was involved with Vela v. Superior Court (1989) 208 Cal. App. 3d 141, a California appellate case that established the attorney-client privilege for police department shooting incident reports.
Throughout his career, Mr. Pannone has been actively involved in various municipal lawyer organizations, including the League’s City Attorney Department, for which he was a charter member of that Department’s Municipal Law Handbook Editorial Board, as well as the re-write in 2003-2004. He was a member of the City Attorney Department’s 6-person ad hoc committee responsible for preparing a set of aspirational ethical principles for municipal attorneys.
Public Offices
City Attorney
Baldwin Park (2008 - present)
Bellflower (2008 - present)
Lompoc (2009 - present)
General Counsel & Assistant City Attorney
Baldwin Park (2003 – present)
Bellflower (2005 – present)
Lompoc RDA (2009 - present)
Special Counsel
Culver City (1989 – present)
El Centro (1992 – present)
Lompoc (1995 – 2009)
Mammoth Lakes (2007 – present)
City Attorney & Redevelopment Counsel
South Pasadena (1998-2003)
City Attorney (and Assistant)
Culver City (1980-89)
Palos Verdes Estates (1998-2010)
Affiliations
LA County Bar Association
LA County City Attorney’s Association
League of CA Cities, City Attny Dept
Italian-American Bar Association
Admissions
State Bar of California
US District Court, Central District of CA
US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
US Supreme Court
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