Local Government Law
ABJC has served as outside counsel to municipal governments and special districts with regard to a variety of complex and contentious land use, environmental, annexation and other local government law matters. The firm has also represented the Grassland Water District on various land use, environmental and water law matters since 1989, and has served as its General Counsel since 1997. The District delivers water and coordinates management activities on 60,000 acres of privately managed wetlands in western Merced County that are a central component of the 240,000 acre Grassland Ecological Area, the largest remaining fresh water marsh habitat west of the Mississippi.