Todd A. Amspoker

Experience
Mr. Amspoker's practice involves public agency and real estate matters, focusing on eminent domain and real estate litigation.

Mr. Amspoker has represented major public agencies throughout the State of California, and has substantial experience with acquiring properties for virtually all types of public projects, including major mass transit projects, freeway and road projects, utility projects, school projects and park projects. He also counsels private developers on development projects, in particular development conditions imposed on developments by public agencies. Mr. Amspoker also has experience with other types of real estate litigation, including easement and boundary disputes, and property tax appeals. He also drafts agreements for public agency and private clients, including sales agreements, easement agreements and other types of agreements involving real property.

Mr. Amspoker has conducted a substantial number of trials in his legal career. His trial practice has taken him to all areas of the state, including the Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, the South Coast, and Southern California.

Mr. Amspoker has written and spoken extensively with respect to eminent domain and public agency law subjects. He is a member of the International Right of Way Association and in 2001 served as President of the Association's Chapter 47.

Reported Cases:
Sanders v. East Bay Mun. Utility Dist. (1993) 16 Cal, App. 4th 125.
Baugh v. Garl (2006) 137 Cal. App. 4th 737.

Education
University of California at Irvine (B. A., cum laude, 1980)
University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J. D., 1983)

Admissions
California

Memberships
California State Bar Association (Litigation and Public Law Sections);
International Right of Way Association (President, Chapter 47, 2001).

Todd A. Amspoker

Partner
Phone: 805.962.0011, ext. 124
Fax: 805.965.3978
E-mail

Eminent Domain Law
Public Agency Law
Real Estate Litigation