Eminent Domain, A Step-by-Step Guide to the Acquisition of Real Property

By Richard G Rypinski

Book Overview

The new, completely updated edition of Eminent Domain: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Acquisition of Real Property is a thorough and precise step-by-step guide through the process California public agencies are required to follow in order to acquire private property for public purposes, from project inception and land valuation through filing and obtaining possession.For public sector attorneys, land acquisition staff and appraisers, and others who need to know how the eminent domain process works.Author Alan Sozio is a partner and member of the Public Law Practice Group at Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP, in Los Angeles, where he primarily focuses on public agency property acquisitions, including eminent domain and inverse condemnation litigation. Author Alan Sozio is a partner and a member of the Public Law Practice Group at Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP in Los Angeles, where he primarily focuses on public agency property acquisitions, including eminent domain and inverse condemnation litigation. Alan's property acquisition practice includes assisting public agencies with property acquisitions, from the preliminary stages all the way through condemnation trials and appellate work. In this capacity, he has served as acquisition counsel for the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority involving partial and full acquisitions for numerous roadway grade separation projects throughout the San Gabriel Valley. Alan also represents cities, redevelopment agencies, school districts, special districts throughout California on a wide variety of public acquisitions, and is a frequent speaker and publisher on issues related to the acquisition of property by public agencies. Alan graduated with honors from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, where he was an associate editor of the Transnational Lawyer and received American Jurisprudence Awards in Property, Evidence, and Legal Writing. Richard Rypinski, author of the first two editions of Eminent Domain, is now retired from the practice of law, after a long career in both public and private practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938166086
• ISBN13: 9781938166082
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Solano Press Books
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"