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Kirsten R. BowmanSenior AttorneyLos Angeles

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Kirsten R. Bowman is a senior attorney in the Litigation Department and the Eminent Domain Practice Group at Richards, Watson & Gershon. Ms. Bowman specializes in the area of eminent domain and inverse condemnation, representing public entities and property owners in both litigation and advisory capacities through all phases of the pre-condemnation and condemnation process.

Before joining the firm, Ms. Bowman represented the State of California Department of Transportation, Legal Division, for over seven years as a Senior Deputy State Attorney. While with the Department's Legal Division, Ms. Bowman's experiences included numerous mediations, arbitrations and court and jury trials in the field of eminent domain, government tort liability, unlawful detainers and CEQA challenges.

Ms. Bowman has litigated a variety of condemnation cases pertaining to both commercial, industrial and residential properties which involved claims of precondemnation damage, severance damages and loss of business goodwill. In addition, Ms. Bowman has litigated inverse condemnation, dangerous conditions of public property cases, as well as environmental challenges involving public improvements.

Ms. Bowman has made presentations on a variety of condemnation, appraisal and commercial leasing topics to professional associations. While in law school, Ms. Bowman served as a Research Editor for the UWLA Law Review, 1995.

 
Education

B.S., University of California, Los Angeles, 1990
J.D., University of West Los Angeles, 1995

 
Practice Areas

Eminent Domain
Government Tort Liability
Inverse Condemnation
Litigation

Public Agency and Municipal Law Litigation
Public Works