Dan Gershwin helps clients navigate the complex local, state, and federal approval and entitlement processes required to develop real property. He has extensive experience in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), public-private partnership projects involving multiple public agencies, historic resources, waterfront and coastal development, transportation, municipal and state legislation, special-status species and related laws and regulations, and local planning and zoning laws throughout California. In addition to representing clients as they pursue land use approvals and entitlements, Dan has litigated land use and environmental cases in California’s federal and state courts, with a focus on CEQA and the Endangered Species Act.
Prior to joining the firm, Dan was an associate in the Environment and Energy group at Morrison & Foerster LLP, and he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Dan is a contributing author of the firm’s Unfamiliar Terrain blog, which provides insights into the complex Bay Area land use landscape.
Dan is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar Association of San Francisco.
Dan earned his law degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor on the Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics, with distinction, from the University of Virginia.
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Bio
Dan Gershwin helps clients navigate the complex local, state, and federal approval and entitlement processes required to develop real property. He has extensive experience in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), public-private partnership projects involving multiple public agencies, historic resources, waterfront and coastal development, transportation, municipal and state legislation, special-status species and related laws and regulations, and local planning and zoning laws throughout California. In addition to representing clients as they pursue land use approvals and entitlements, Dan has litigated land use and environmental cases in California’s federal and state courts, with a focus on CEQA and the Endangered Species Act.
Prior to joining the firm, Dan was an associate in the Environment and Energy group at Morrison & Foerster LLP, and he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Dan is a contributing author of the firm’s Unfamiliar Terrain blog, which provides insights into the complex Bay Area land use landscape.
Dan is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar Association of San Francisco.
Dan earned his law degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor on the Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics, with distinction, from the University of Virginia.
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