Practice Areas - Real Estate Litigation
- Zoning, Planning and Land Use
- California Environmental Quality Act
- Boundary Disputes
- Easements
- Quiet Title
- Real Estate Fraud
- Real Property Acquisitions
- Real Property Development
- Construction Contracts
- Mediation
- Environmental Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Litigation
- Waterfront Development
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- Environmental Real Estate
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Climate Change
- Brownfields Redevelopment
- Real Estate Mediation
- Adverse Possession
- Land Acquisitions
- Mixed Use Development
- Real Estate Acquisitions
- Real Estate Brokers and Agents Liability
- Real Estate Contracts
- Right of Way Easements
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| University | Straus Institute, Pepperdine, Mediating the Litigated Case, 2007 |
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| Law School | John F. Kennedy University, J.D., magna cum laude, 2002 |
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| Admitted | 2003, California and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 2007, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California |
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| Memberships | Solano County, Contra Costa County (Member, Real Estate Section) and American (Member, Sections on: Environmental; Energy; Resources; State and Local Government Law; Real Property; Probate & Estates; Litigation) Bar Associations; State Bar of California (Member, Sections on: Real Estate Property; Litigation); American Trial Lawyers Association; Consumer Attorneys of California. |
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| Born | Oakland, California |
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| Biography | Since opening her law firm in Benicia, California in 2003, Dana Dean has practiced real estate and land use law, focusing on litigation and land use development. With matters in Contra Costa, Napa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Stanislaus, and Yolo counties, Ms. Dean has concluded dozens of cases involving disputed developments and related land use entitlements, as well as transactional, boundary, easement, and other traditional real estate claims. Ms. Dean has successfully represented neighborhood groups, and project developers alike, at the city and county levels during all stages of CEQA process, and before various state agencies considering applications related to other entitlements. Ms. Dean has also successfully represented plaintiffs, defendants, buyers, sellers, agents and brokers, in real estate litigation matters related breach of contract, fraud, non-disclosure, and the like. |
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| Reported Cases | Dino v. Pelayo et al. (2006) 145 Cal. App. 4th 347. |
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| ISLN | 918370288 |
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