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My life story I was born in 1983 in Tehran in a lovely warm family. My father was the CFO of one of the major well-known Iranian public companies and my mother, before her early retirement, served as the IT manager of an Iranian private company. I have two older sisters, Ima and Ava. My elder sister, Ima, has Ph.D. in chemical science and runs her own Knowledge-based company. The middle child of the family, Ava, works in the Innovative Strategies Branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency. My parents and my sisters have been living in the USA for the several...

I have been in solo private practice representing plaintiffs in the areas of environmental, land use, and elections law for almost thirty years. My clients are usually local environmental groups, neighborhood associations, homeowner associations, and occasionally individuals or government agencies. In addition to my law degree (New College of Calif., 1990) have undergraduate and masters of science degrees in biology from Brown University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University. I spent ten years working as a researcher in agricultural biotechnology before doing a career change and getting my law degree.
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I have practiced law in California for more than 23 years with a career that includes private practice, as a Deputy Attorney General with the California Department of Justice, and as a clerk to an appellate court judge. Our firm represents property owners and businesses in environmental litigation and as advisors for matters involving soil and groundwater remediation, Clean Water Act citizen suits, Water Board investigation orders, and more.

We work with our clients to identify the best strategies for their needs. What matters most is our clients’ comfort level and...

Lance has represented public and private clients in matters involving real estate, land use, environmental contamination, lease negotiations, corporate formation, outdoor advertising, municipal finance, and general business transactional work. His real estate experience includes property sales and acquisitions, due diligence, title insurance negotiations, property management, entitlement/permit processing, environmental investigations and indemnity protections, redevelopment, and code enforcement. For Colantuono & Levin’s clients, his work has included a broad range of real estate transactions as well as negotiating, documenting and interpreting development, construction and reimbursement agreements between the firm’s public agency clients and developers and contract utility operators. City Planning ...