Law Offices of Dana Dean

Dana Dean

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Since opening her law firm in Benicia, California in 2003, Dana Dean has practiced real estate and land use law, focusing on litigation and land use development. With matters in Contra Costa, Napa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Stanislaus, and Yolo counties, Ms. Dean has concluded dozens of cases involving disputed developments and related land use entitlements, as well as transactional, boundary, easement, and other traditional real estate claims.

Ms. Dean has successfully represented neighborhood groups, and project developers alike, at the city and county levels during all stages of CEQA process, and before various state agencies considering applications related to other entitlements. Ms. Dean has also successfully represented plaintiffs, defendants, buyers, sellers, agents and brokers, in real estate litigation matters related breach of contract, fraud, non-disclosure, and the like.

In 2007, having completed training through the Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University, Ms. Dean began taking mediation assignments from the Solano County Superior Court, with a focus on mediating real estate and other contract disputes. Since then, Ms. Dean has obtained advanced training in Local Government and land use dispute resolution. Thus, given her substantial experience in representing all types of parties in real estate and land use disputes, Ms. Dean is now in a unique position to resolve real estate and community disputes empathetically and efficiently.

Ms. Dean also has a long history of community involvement with particular focus on health issues and a current focus on children's health and well-being. Among other responsibilities, Ms. Dean now serves on the Benicia Unified School District Board of Trustees having previously served on the Joe Henderson School PTG as liaison to the site council. Also, Ms. Dean was recently appointed to a four year term as Commissioner for First Five Solano. Ms. Dean served for several years on the Affordable Housing Affiliation Board and has been a Benicia Rotarian for the past 5 years.

Practice Areas

Real Estate Litigation; Zoning, Planning and Land Use; California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); Boundary Disputes; Easements; Quiet Title; Real Estate Fraud; Real Property Acquisitions; Real Property Development; Construction Contracts; Mediation; Environmental Dispute Resolution; Environmental Litigation; Environmental Mediation; Environmental Real Estate; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); Climate Change; Brownfields Redevelopment; Real Estate Mediation; Adverse Possession; Land Acquisitions; Mixed Use Development; Real Estate Acquisitions; Real Estate Brokers and Agents Liability; Real Estate Contracts; Right of Way Easements; Waterfront Development

Admitted	2003, California and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 2007, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Law School	John F. Kennedy University (J.D., magna cum laude, 2002)
Member	Solano County, Contra Costa County (Member, Real Estate Section) and American (Member, Sections on: Environmental; Energy; Resources; State and Local Government Law; Real Property; Probate & Estates; Litigation) Bar Associations; State Bar of California (Member, Sections on: Real Estate Property; Litigation); American Trial Lawyers Association; Consumer Attorneys of California.
Born	Oakland, California
ISLN	918370288