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
- Water Resource Protection Manual for Florida Activists
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
