Panel of Outside Legal Counsel Effective June 27, 2023
Law Firm
Specialty Areas
Expiration Date of Agreement
1. Alston & Bird
Environmental Law
When complete*
2. Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo
Affordable Housing Laws
Bankruptcy
Eminent Domain, Inverse Condemnation
Employment Law (advice and litigation)
Environmental and Natural Resources Law/Litigation Law
General Public Agency Law
General Litigation or Trial
Public Contracting/ Construction Law/Litigation
Public Employment Law
Public Safety (litigation and employment law advice)
Real Estate
Water Law
Appellate practice
June 30, 2026
3. BDG Law Group
Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation
Employment Law (Advice and Litigation)
Environmental And Natural Resources Law/Litigation Law
General Public Agency Law
Public Contracting/ Construction Law/Litigation
General Litigation or Trial
Public Employment Law
Real Estate
June 30, 2026
4. Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP
Affordable Housing
Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation
Employment Law
Environmental Law
General Public Agency Law
General Litigation/Trial
Public Contracting/ Construction
Public Employment Law
Public Safety
Real Estate
June 30, 2026
5. Colantuono Highsmith & Whatley, PC
Prop 218 and Prop 26 advice and litigation, (existing litigation only) June 30, 2026
6. Collins + Collins LLP
Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation
Employment law (Advice and litigation)
General Public Agency Law
General Litigation or Trial
Public Contracting/ Construction Law/Litigation
Public Employment Law
Public Safety (litigation and employment law advice)
Real Estate
Appellate practice
June 30, 2026
7. Constantine Cannon LLP
Qui Tam pending lawsuit
When complete*
8. Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy
Bond litigation
When complete*
9. Devaney Pate Morris & Cameron, LLP
Affordable Housing Laws
Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation
Employment Law (Advice and Litigation)
Environmental and Natural Resources Law/Litigation Law
General Public Agency Law
General Litigation or Trial
Public Contracting/Construction Law/Litigation
Public Employment Law
Public Safety (Litigation and Employment Law Advice)
Real Estate
Water Law
Appellate Practice
June 30, 2026
10. Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost, LLP
Employment Law (Advice and Litigation)
General Public Agency Law
General Litigation / Trial
Public Contracting / Construction Law / Litigation
Public Employment Law
Public Safety
Real Estate
Technology Law
June 30, 2026
11. Graves & King LLP
General Litigation or Trial
Appellate practice
June 30, 2026
12. Greines Martin Stein & Richland
Appellate practice
June 30, 2026
13. Hanna, Brophy, Maclean, McAleer & Jensen, LLP
Workers’ Compensation and CalPERS Industrial Disability Retirement defense June 30, 2026
14. Holland & Hart
Power Purchase Agreements
March 9, 2024
15. Jones Hall
Municipal bonds and related litigation
June 30, 2026
16. Law Offices of William R. Price
Tort litigation
Sept. 16, 2024
17. Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
General litigation or trial
June 30, 2026
18. Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Employment Law
Public Employment Law
Public Safety
Appellate Practice
June 30, 2026
19. Lozano Smith
Employment law (advice and litigation)
Environmental and Natural Resources Law/Litigation Law
General Public Agency Law
General Litigation or Trial
Public Contracting/ Construction Law/Litigation
Public Employment Law
Public Safety (litigation and employment law advice)
Real Estate
Appellate practice
June 30, 2026
20. Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP
Employment Law
General Litigation or Trial
Public Safety
Appellate Practice
June 30, 2026
21. Miller & Axline
Water Contamination
When complete*
22. Murphy & Evertz
Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation
Water Law
June 30, 2026
23. Olivarez Madruga Law Organization, LLP
Employment Law (Advice and Litigation)
General Public Agency Law
General Litigation or Trial
Public Contracting/ Construction Law/Litigation
June 30, 2026
24. SL Environmental Law Group PC
Kennedy & Madonna LLP
Douglas & London, P.C.
Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP
Taft Stettinius &Hollister, LLP
Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Rafferty & Proctor, P.A.
Water contamination
When complete*
25. Slovak Baron Empey Murphey & Pinkney, LLP
Code of Ethics
Sept. 14, 2024
26. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
Municipal bonds and related litigation
June 30, 2026
27. Thompson Coburn
FERC, NERC, CPUC, CAISO advice (electric generation and distribution) June 30, 2026
28. Woodruff & Smart
Affordable Housing laws
Eminent Domain / Inverse Condemnation
Employment Law / Public Employment Law
Environmental and Natural Resources
General Public Agency Law
Real Estate
Appellate Practice
June 30, 2026
* The termination dates for these law firms are dependent upon the particular legal matter being completed.