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Laurence S. Wiener is a shareholder in
the Public Law Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon with
more than 20 years of experience in local government and land use
law. He works with City Councils, Planning Commissions, and Redevelopment
Agencies throughout the State of California. Mr. Wiener is the City
Attorney of the City of Beverly Hills, General Counsel to the Las
Virgenes Malibu Council of Governments and Authority Counsel to
the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority. He has also served
as the City Attorney for the cities of Westlake Village and Hidden
Hills.
Mr. Wiener concentrates on the representation of public agency
clients in a wide range of government law areas and has spoken and
written extensively on public law issues including the Brown Act,
the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and financing public
facilities. Mr. Wiener teaches a course on the Subdivision Map Act
for the UCLA Public Policy Continuing Education Program and served
as a consultant on the two-volume book, Practice Under the California
Environmental Quality Act. He also co-authored the first guidebook
on the implementation of Proposition 218, as well as one of the
early papers establishing a methodology for public agency implementation
of the Mitigation Fee Act, originally adopted as "A.B. 1600." Mr.
Wiener currently serves on the Board of Advisors, UCLA Journal
of Environmental Law and Policy and served as President of
the City Attorneys Association of Los Angeles County in 2002. He
is also a former Chairman of the editorial board of the League of
California Cities "Municipal Law Handbook."
Mr. Wiener specializes in negotiating and documenting complex land
use transactions. Transactions in which Mr. Wiener has been involved
include the Montage Hotel Beverly Hills Gardens Project, the Ten
Year Development Agreement between the City of Burbank and Bob Hope
Airport, and land use and environmental issues surrounding the negotiation
for the use of the Rose Bowl by a National Football League team.
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A.B., Princeton University, 1983
J.D., University of California School of Law, Los Angeles, 1987
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