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Steven L. FlowerSenior AttorneyLos Angeles

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Steven L. Flower is a senior attorney in the Public Law Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon. Mr. Flower serves as the Assistant City Attorney and the Planning Commission Counsel for the Cities of City of Seal Beach and Rancho Cucamonga.

In addition to representing public agencies across a wide range of government law and land use matters, Mr. Flower regularly advises cities on telecommunications matters, including cable television franchising, local wireless telecommunications regulations, and cell site leasing. He has additional transactional and litigation experience in CEQA, First Amendment, affordable housing, and public works matters.

Mr. Flower obtained his law degree from the University of Southern California Law School. During law school he served as Executive Notes Editor 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
M.Phil., University of Cambridge, 1998
J.D., University of Southern California Law School, 2004

 
Practice Areas

CEQA
Planning, Zoning and Subdivision Map Act
Public Agency and Municipal Law
Public Works
Telecommunications