Client Collaborations
All Representative Cases
Drafted and negotiated multiple office leases to tenants in the tech sector.
Worked on a geothermal exploration lease for the landlord leasing to the company developing the geothermal facilities.
Worked on multiple leases, licenses, and easements for wind and solar facilities.
Represent numerous property owners and tenants resolving breach of lease claims arising out of COVID-19.
Represented owner of shopping center in dispute with tenant over unpaid common area maintenance charges (CAMs). Negotiated resolution wherein tenant would pay all back CAMs for prior 6 years and structured new CAM reconciliation process to avoid issue in the future.
Simon’s Way Development Inc. v. Clark County. Prevailed in challenging Clark County’s impermissible attempt to regulate a Class III forest road approved by the Department of Natural Resources at the Washington Court of Appeals, Division II.
Benchmark v. City of Battle Ground. The Supreme Court ruled that the city’s requirement for a developer to improve street frontage was unlawful. The key in that case was the fact that the developer would put few trips on the street that the city was requiring the developer to improve. The required connection between an impact of the development and the need for the public improvement was lacking.
Habitat Watch v. Skagit County. The Washington Supreme Court ruled that an environmental group’s challenge to golf course project was untimely under the Land Use Petition Act. The court found that not only did the environmental group not file an appeal in time after learning the project was going forward, but that filing a motion for reconsideration with the county, instead of court, was the wrong venue in which to challenge the permit.