SSL represents clients in a wide variety of real estate and land-use litigation. We effectively trouble-shoot emerging disputes, understand the costs and benefits of pre-litigation dispute resolution strategies, and have a deep bench of experience prosecuting and defending litigation in federal and state court, including through trial and appeal. SSL also draws on the vast transactional expertise of its attorneys to aggressively, efficiently and effectively resolve typical disputes encountered by owners, managers and users of real property.
Our team has extensive real estate litigation experience representing property owners and developers in all types of real-estate disputes, including purchase-sale and landlord-tenant disputes, eminent domain and inverse condemnation, easement and deed restriction creation and enforcement, quiet title and boundary litigation, partnership dissolutions, and financing workouts.
In the land use and environmental law areas, we have represented landowners, developers and governmental entities in cases involving California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), zoning, development entitlements and permits, subdivisions, endangered species, wetlands, hazardous substances, building moratorium and growth controls, initiatives and referenda. We regularly both defend and challenge land use approvals at all levels of proceedings, from state and federal trial courts throughout California to the Courts of Appeals.
CAPABILITIES INCLUDE:
- Defending and challenging government decisions under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the California Planning and Zoning Law and the Subdivision Map Act
- Contesting voter adopted land use legislation
- Defending and contesting jurisdictional claims and mitigation for wetlands and endangered species
- Protection of property rights and value
- Defense of open government protections (Brown Act)
- Landlord/Tenant disputes
- Unlawful detainer
- Title, boundary and easement disputes