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Candice K LeeAssociateLos Angeles

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Candice K. Lee is an associate in the Public Agency and Municipal Law Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon. Ms. Lee currently serves as Assistant City Attorney for the Cities of Agoura Hills, Artesia, San Marino and Temecula. She has extensive experience with a variety of public law issues, including land use planning, development impact fees, the Brown Act, the Public Records Act, the Subdivision Map Act, and CEQA. Ms. Lee also advises municipal clients on environmental compliance matters relating to the Clean Water Act, specifically NPDES and TMDL issues. Ms. Lee was a summer associate at RW&G in 2002.

Ms. Lee obtained her law degree from the UC Davis School of Law, where she served as Senior Notes and Comments Editor of the UC Davis Law Review. During law school, she also worked as a teaching assistant in the Legal Writing program at the UC Davis School of Law and the Asian American Studies Department at UC Davis, and participated in the King Hall Immigration Law Clinic and the King Hall Pro Bono Program. Ms. Lee received the Witkin Award for Judicial Process in 2002. In 2001, Ms. Lee served as an extern for the Honorable Harry Pregerson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

 
Education

B.A., summa cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
J.D., University of California School of Law, Davis, 2003

 
Practice Areas

CEQA
E-Documents and Public Records
Land Use, Planning, Zoning and Subdivision Map Act
NPDES
Public Agency and Municipal Law
Public Works