The firm, along with Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, negotiated a resolution on behalf of the Sonoma Land Trust, with the owners of the 528 acre Low Ranch located near San Pablo Bay. In 2006, the Land Trust, which holds an agricultural easement that permanently restricts the use of land to agriculture, filed suit against the property owner for mud dredging operations that the Land Trust believed were inconsistent with the conservation easement. The settlement resolves the three year-old lawsuit and preserves the agricultural conservation easement, and ensures that agricultural resources will be protected.
