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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
John
C. Condas Joins the Orange County Office of Allen
Matkins
SAN
DIEGO – March 26, 2008 – Allen
Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, a leading California
business and real estate law firm, announces the addition of John
C. Condas as a partner in the firm's Orange County office.
Condas joins Allen Matkins' real
estate, and land
use, environmental & natural resources practice groups. He
brings experience obtaining and defending all types of land use
and environmental permits. He has particular experience working
with Multiple Species Habitat Plans and advises clients on the
developing climate change and green building requirements they
face.
Condas has led legal due diligence and entitlement teams for industrial,
commercial, retail, multi-family, mixed use and single-family residential
projects in more than 140 jurisdictions. He has represented
national, publicly traded and private home-building clients in
acquisition of more than 18,000 residential lots. His clients
include First Industrial
Realty Trust, Watson
Land Company, BRE Properties, Centex
Homes, Standard
Pacific Homes and Anheuser-Busch.
“John has an outstanding reputation for providing cutting-edge land use
and environmental advice to his longstanding clients,” said Bob
Hamilton, office operating partner of Allen Matkins' Orange
County office. "His
impressive background and experience will complement our current land use and
environmental practice groups and further solidifies us as the ‘go to’ firm
in these major areas.”
Condas taught real estate law at the University of Southern California
MBA and Master of Real Estate Development programs for 15 years,
and also taught real estate law at the University of Southern California
Law School. He is on the Executive Committee of the USC Lusk
Center and a member of the Board of Directors of the Hobbs Institute
for Real Estate and Environmental Studies at Chapman University
and is a member of ULI.
He joins Allen Matkins as the former chair of Nossaman's Land Use & Natural
Resources Practice Group.
Condas received his J.D. from the University of Southern California
in 1988, his M.A. in Urban Planning from the University of California,
Los Angeles in 1985 and his A.B. from the University of Chicago
in 1983.
ABOUT ALLEN MATKINS
Allen
Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, founded in 1977, is
a California law firm with approximately 230 attorneys practicing
out of seven offices in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco,
San Diego, Century City, Del Mar Heights and Walnut Creek. The firm's
broad-based areas of focus include corporate, real estate, construction,
real estate finance, business litigation, taxation, land use, environmental,
technology and intellectual property, bankruptcy and creditors'
rights, and employment and labor law.
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