• Lead team to victory in the dismissal of an $85 million action against her client related to a project valued at more than half-a-billion dollars
• Dismissal of two lawsuits saving a client $110 million
• Lead in negotiating and putting together a complex $1.8 billion sporting stadium development transaction involving issuance of $50M in bonds
• Comprehensive General Plan update
• Passage of several legislative Bills (e.g., SB510 and AB 2789)
• Drafted most comprehensive Oil Code in State of California
• $1 billion transaction for development of prior land fill to tax producing uses involving negotiations of a $100M+ Remedial Action Plan with Department of Toxics & Substance Control
• Formation of Joint Powers Authority to assist with remediation and development of blighted properties
• Was Assistant City Attorney in Bell when her firm won the California Lawyer “Attorneys of the Year” award in Municipal Law in 2015 for helping Bell return to responsible government and solvency after the malfeasance of eight city officials; within three years her team returned Bell to a sound fiscal basis eliminating $78M in claims and recovery $7M in damages
• Successfully argued before the California Supreme Court preserving the significant Porterville doctrine in regulatory takings law
• Prevailed in a validation action allowing a client to proceed with issuance of $25 million in bonds and certificates of participation.
• First chair in jury trial involving right to take challenges and 21 consolidated cases on the cleanup of a former oil field (saving client $18 million).
• Lead team before Second Appellate District to preserve local rent control for low-income residents in California
• Negotiated $45M settlement against largest oil refinery on the West Coast
• Worked with Regional Water Quality Control Board dealing with storm water management issues and assisted City in joining the Dominguez Watershed Plan, resulting in City receiving $13M Caltrans grant for construction of Carriage Crest Park project, currently underway
Published Opinions:
• Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, et al. (9th Cir. 2018) 888 F.3d 445 [certiorari denied]
• City of Perris v. Stamper (2016) 1 Cal.5th 576
• Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. City of Carson (2015) 239 Cal.App.4th 56
• Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson (2013) 220 Cal. App. 4th 840 [petition for review denied]
• Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates, LLC v. City of Los Angeles (2012) 55 Cal. 4th 783
• Goldstone v. County of Santa Cruz (2012) 207 Cal. App. 4th 1038 [petition for review denied]
• Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, et al. (9th Cir. 2011) 640 F.3d 948, Case No. 09-57039 [petition for review denied]
• Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson (2010) 187 Cal. App. 4th 1487; [petition for review denied]
• Carson Redevelopment Agency v. Padilla (2006) 140 Cal. App. 4th 1323
