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Isaac C. Young

Associate

Los Angeles

t: (310) 527-6660

d: (424) 269-3343

e: iyoung@awattorneys.com

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Bio

Isaac C. Young is an associate attorney in the LA office. Isaac assists the Firm with a broad range of legal matters, focusing his practice on litigation, code enforcement, labor & employment, land use, property acquisition and takings, real estate, and water matters. Isaac’s litigates cases involving: civil rights, personal injury, environmental matters, and water matters.

Isaac also advises municipalities on public law issues such as the Brown Act, the Public Records Act, and Code Enforcement. Isaac’s practice also includes drafting contracts, ordinances, resolutions, and development related agreements.

During law school, Isaac was a member of the Sales and Use Tax Clinic where he represented individuals and business owners in matters involving the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. There, he helped to resolve licensing issues, settle claims, and assist in the tax appeals process.

Water:

  • Currently defending City of Carson in complex litigation involving Dominguez Channel Odor incident.
  • Assisted in settlement of a complex water litigation matter involving chronic toxicity.

Risk Management- Personal Injury:

  • Secured a victory on a Motion for Summary Judgment on a case alleging a Dangerous Condition of Public Property at an intersection with an activated traffic signal where an automobile driver failed to stop and injured two pedestrians.
  • Successfully negotiated a settlement prior to hearing of City’s Motion for Summary Judgment in a disputed trip and fall case resulting in a fractured hand.

Code Enforcement:

  • Successfully negotiated and resolved a code enforcement matter involving an injunction against a business violating a City zoning law.

Civil Rights:

  • Successfully assisted in the settlement of a Civil Rights case involving procedures of municipal police.

Eminent Domain/Regulatory Takings:

  • Secured a victory on a Motion for Summary Judgment on a case involving the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause when a grading permit was not issued to scrape a private road in the Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex. 

Employment:

  • Successfully negotiated a settlement prior to hearing of City’s Motion for Summary Judgment in a disability discrimination and retaliation case.

Land Use:

  • Successfully demurred a Writ of Mandate action by having a demurrer sustained without leave to amend for a proposed development project that failed to adhere to local regulations and exhaust administrative remedies. 

  • Deputy City Attorney – City of Carson
  • Deputy City Attorney (Litigation) – City of Rancho Palos Verdes

  • State Bar of California

  • US District Court, Central District of California

  • Brown Act – Presentation in the City of Carson on the Brown Act, October 17, 2022.

  • City Attorney’s Association of Los Angeles County (“CAALAC”) Retreat – Presentation in the City of Marina Del Rey, on DEI: The Impacts on Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions, and Ways to Disrupt Them, February 23, 2024.

  • Latinx Law Student’s Association Annual Law Firm Symposium – Public Law Panel in the City of Los Angeles at Loyola Law School, April 4, 2024.

  • Environmental Law Panel, Loyola Law School, April 17, 2024, online.

  • Law Q & A Panel, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity at University of California, Riverside - May 23, 2024.

  • Litigation: Deliberative Process Privilege, Attorney-Client Privilege, Preservation of Evidence, and Public Records Act Requests – City of Carson – January 21, 2025.

  • Loyola Law School, JD, 2020

  • University of CA, Riverside, BA, Political Science/Law and Society, 2014