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Steven L. Dorsey is a shareholder in
the Public Law Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon. Since
joining the firm in 1973, Mr. Dorsey has specialized in public agency
law. He currently is City Attorney for the Cities of Buena Park,
Norwalk and San Marino and is Co-General Counsel to the Los Angeles
to Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority. He also serves
as special conflict of interest counsel for L.A. Care Health Plan,
a public agency, and as special construction contract counsel for
the City of Palo Alto. He has previously served as City Attorney
for South El Monte, Cudahy and Rancho Palos Verdes.
Mr. Dorsey is very active in the League of California Cities and
has served as a member of the League's Board of Directors. He also
has been President of the City Attorneys' Department, chair of the
Department's Legal Advocacy Committee, a member of the Department's
Legislative Committee and chair of the City Attorneys' Department
Fair Political Practices Commission committee.
Mr. Dorsey was a member of the editorial board that wrote the
first edition of the League's Municipal Law Handbook, and
personally edited the chapters on Public Property, Public Works
and Public Utilities.
Mr. Dorsey also was a member of the City Attorneys' Department
committee that authored Practicing Ethics: A Handbook for Municipal
Lawyers and chaired the committee that drafted the Ethical
Prinicipals for City Attorneys, which were recently adopted
by the City Attorneys' Department.
Mr. Dorsey has represented various public agencies as special construction
counsel. Among the projects on which he has worked are the Pasadena
Police Facility, the $82 million South Coast Air Quality District
Headquarters building and the Buena Park Police Facility, which
is currently under construction. Mr. Dorsey has frequently represented
public agencies on conflict of interest issues.
Mr. Dorsey has presented numerous seminars for public officials on such
topics as the Ralph M. Brown Act, meeting procedures, and conflicts of
interest issues. Mr. Dorsey taught a course on the Subdivision Map Act
for the UCLA Public Policy Institute each year from 1989 through 1995.
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