Land Use Associate

Pay: $175,000.00 - $240,000.00 per year

Why This Is a Great Opportunity

• Join a highly specialized California practice where your work will directly impact meaningful land use, environmental, and natural resources projects.
• Handle sophisticated matters for major clients across development, energy, agriculture, and related industries.
• Step into a role with strong substantive responsibility, direct client exposure, and high-level legal work.
• Build your career in a niche practice area with long-term growth, strong compensation, bonus upside, and excellent benefits.
• Be part of a team that values sharp writing, practical thinking, responsiveness, and top-quality work.

Location: This is a full-time, on-site opportunity in Roseville, CA, offering close collaboration with a highly specialized team and access to the broader Sacramento-area legal market.

Note: This role requires 3+ years of attorney experience, at least 2+ years of land use and environmental experience, strong CEQA and NEPA exposure, and active California Bar admission.

About Us

Confidential Employer. We are a highly regarded California boutique law firm focused on land use, environmental, and natural resources matters. Our team advises sophisticated clients on complex project development, permitting, compliance, and related litigation throughout California, and we are known for delivering strategic, business-minded counsel with a high level of responsiveness and quality.

Job Description

• Handle land use and environmental matters involving project development, entitlement, permitting, compliance, and related disputes.
• Advise clients on CEQA, NEPA, and other California environmental and land use issues.
• Support matters involving mitigation and conservation banking, the Williamson Act, and related regulatory frameworks.
• Draft motions, briefs, research memoranda, comment letters, and other high-level legal analyses.
• Work with clients, agencies, consultants, and internal team members to move projects forward efficiently and strategically.
• Assist with administrative proceedings, regulatory strategy, and litigation support tied to land use and environmental matters.
• Manage assignments with increasing independence while collaborating closely with experienced attorneys on sophisticated California matters.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of attorney experience, ideally within the 3rd to 8th year range.
• 2+ years of land use and environmental experience.
• Strong working knowledge of CEQA and NEPA.
• Experience with mitigation or conservation banking strongly preferred.
• Williamson Act experience strongly preferred.
• Excellent legal writing, research, and analytical skills.
• Strong judgment, professionalism, and client-facing communication skills.
• Active California Bar admission required.
• Strong academic credentials preferred.

Why You Will Love Working Here

• Boutique environment with big-firm-caliber matters and meaningful responsibility.
• Highly specialized practice that offers strong long-term career value.
• Competitive compensation with bonus potential.
• Robust benefits package, including 401(k) contribution once eligible and unlimited vacation.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact California projects with sophisticated clients.
• Collaborative team culture that values quality, initiative, and business-minded legal work.

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Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance