Associate
Business Phone: 831.646.1502
Business Fax: 831.646.0377
fran@laredolaw.net
Practice Areas
Representation of public agencies in the areas of administrative law, contract law, environmental law, and real estate law, water law.
Representative Experience
General Counsel, Goleta Water District; Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, City of Pacific Grove, Monterey-Salinas Transit District
Publications
Presentations and Speaking Engagements
- “Water Law Survey Course” – Monterey College of Law
- “Water Law Survey Course” – Ventura College of Law
- Guest Lecturer – California Water Law Conference (CLE)
Honors and other distinctions
- Attorney of the Year 2008 2009, California Special District Association, Santa Barbara County Chapter
Noteworthy cases
- Applications before the CPUC – Water Supply related matters
- Applications before the SWRCB – Water Rights related matters
- Save Our Peninsula Committee v. Monterey County – CEQA Water Baseline
Public Service
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District General Manager, Carmel Valley Road Committee, Santa Barbara County Park Commissioner, Community Advisory Council to Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District
Education
- Nova University Law School – Juris Doctor (Top fifth of graduating class)
- George Washington University – B.A. History
Court Admissions
- California Supreme Court
- All Florida State Courts
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits
Memberships
- California Bar Association
- Florida Bar Association
- Monterey College of Law, Board of Trustees
- SPCA of Monterey County, Board of Directors
- Friends of the Sea Otter, Trustee
- Carmel Valley Property Owners Association
- Director, Santa Barbara Audubon, Conservation and Science Committee
- Los Padres Sierra Club, Steering Committee
