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Steven L. FlowerAssociateLos Angeles

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Steven L. Flower is an associate in the Public Law Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon. Mr. Flower serves as the Assistant City Attorney for the Cities of City of Seal Beach and Rancho Cucamonga.

Mr. Flower represents of public agencies in a wide range of government law areas. His practice focuses on planning and land use issues, and he has additional transactional and litigation experience in CEQA, First Amendment, and affordable housing matters. In addition, Mr. Flower is a member of the Firm's Climate Change Practice Group, which is developing strategies for cities to respond to requests for green building ordinances, purchasing policies and issues relating to global warming.

Mr. Flower obtained his law degree from the University of Southern California Law School. During law school he served as Executive Notes Editor and staff member of the Southern California Law Review.

Mr. Flower is the author of "Suspicious Minds: The Federal Telecommunications Act Converges with the Doctrine of Prior Restraints in the Ninth Circuit," 3 Public Law Journal 1 (Fall 2007), and "Toward Correcting the Misapplication of Subrogation in California Healthcare," 77 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1039 (2004).

 
Education

B.A., Wesleyan University, 1996
MPhil., University of Cambridge, 1998
J.D., University of Southern California Law School, 2004

 
Practice Areas

Climate Change
Public Agency and Municipal Law
Public Works
Telecommunications