Practice Expertise

  • Environmental & Natural Resources
  • Environmental & Natural Resources
  • Environment & Natural Resources
  • Environmental and Natural Resources

Areas of Practice

  • Environment & Natural Resources
  • Environmental & Natural Resources
  • Environmental & Natural Resources
  • Environmental and Natural Resources
  • Environmental Law
  • Government
  • Water Law
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Profile

Nicole's practice focuses on government and public agency law. She assists the firm's public agency clients with various legal issues such as public contracts and procurements and governance laws, including conflict of interest analyses. Nicole provides client training on government ethics laws, Brown Act, and Public Records Act compliance.

Nicole also assists clients in implementing recycled water and resource recovery and waste reductions projects, including complex design-build/operate agreements. Nicole also helps clients navigate unique project delivery challenges. Nicole drafts and advises clients on contracts in areas including public works, the purchase of goods and services, funding agreements, and real property.

Nicole is engaged in the rapidly developing legal and regulatory landscape of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) for commercial use and writes for the blog hoverlaw.com. Nicole assists public and private clients in navigating the legal landscape of drone use.

Bar Admissions

  • California

Education
J.D., cum laude, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (2015)
B.A., magna cum laude, Loyola University Chicago (2007)

Areas of Practice

  • Environment & Natural Resources
  • Environmental & Natural Resources
  • Environmental & Natural Resources
  • Environmental and Natural Resources
  • Environmental Law
  • Government
  • Water Law

Professional Career

Professional Associations
  • MMANC Womenâ??s Leadership Summit, 2016 & 2017 Planning Committee Member


Articles

"Chapter 7: Public Contracting," reviewer, Municipal Law Handbook (2016)
"California Legislature Sends Six Drone Bills to the Governor’s Desk," co-author, HB Drone Law Blog (September 2016)
"The Wild West of Commercial Drones–Why 2015 Could Be a Pivotal Year in California," co-author, Public Law Journal (May 2015)

Blogs

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