Overview

White Brenner LLP assists cities, counties and special districts throughout California to successfully maneuver through an ever-changing and dynamic governmental landscape. Our legal team focuses its extensive and unparalleled experience to provide the highest quality representation, advocacy and service.

White Brenner LLP provides dynamic legal advice and representation in nearly all matters affecting public entities, ranging from complex transactional and litigation matters to crisis management and highly sensitive political considerations. Serving as city attorney and general counsel to several public agency clients, the firm’s attorneys provide specialized legal services tailored to meet each client’s unique needs. White Brenner LLP partners are recognized as innovative leaders, negotiators and advocates within their respective areas of practice.

The firm provides a broad range of legal services to cities and special districts which include:

• Ralph M. Brown Act
• CEQA, NEPA, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and other environmental and natural resource laws
• City prosecutor functions
• Code enforcement
• Conflicts of interest and government ethics
• Elections, voting, referenda and initiatives
• Eminent Domain
• Finance and taxation issues
• First Amendment issues
• Franchise agreements
• Historic preservation
• Incorporation, annexations and changes of organization
• Insurance / risk management
• Joint powers authorities and joint power agreements
• Labor and employment matters
• Land use, planning and zoning
• Litigation
• Military base reuse
• Municipal labor and employment
• Municipal utilities and infrastructure
• Property acquisition, disposition and leasing
• Public contracting and bid issues
• Public finance, assessment districts and community facilities districts
• Public Records Act
• Regulatory and administrative compliance
• Successor agency and oversight board issues