Michael Tidus

Shareholder

Office: Irvine

Fax: 949.752.0597

Services:
Environmental
Land Use Development
Litigation

Michael Tidus chairs the Firm’s Environmental and Land Use Development Services Groups. He concentrates in matters on the administrative, trial and appellate levels. Mr. Tidus has extensive experience under the Civil Rights Act, direct and inverse condemnation, First Amendment and free speech, planning and zoning, CEQA, and municipal bond issues.

Mr. Tidus also has experience representing companies in the outdoor advertising industry and other real estate related litigation, including partnership disputes and easement and boundary litigation.

Memberships:

State Bar of California
USC Business School Alumnus
USC Real Estate Alumni and Friends Group

Education:

University of Southern California Law Center, J.D., 1986
University of Southern California, M.B.A., 1986
University of California, San Diego, B.A., 1982

Recognition:

2013 Top Rated Lawyers in Land Use and Zoning (Corporate Counsel magazine)

Classes & Seminars:

Successfully Influencing Government Land Use Decisions, UCLA Extension Public Policy Program, October 4, 2007
“Understanding the Requirements of the State and Federal Environmental Quality Acts CEQA; NEPA”, CLE International Land Use Law Conference, April 30, 1998 – May 1, 1998
Panelist “Putting It All Together: ‘The Clean’ Project Scenario in the City of Nirvana”, CLE International Land Use Law Conference, April 30, 1998 – May 1, 1998
Speaker, “Billboards & Commercial Signs: Design, Development & Legal Challenges to Regulation”, Harvard’s Law Organization
Lectured, Harvard University’s Real Estate & Urban Development Forum

Published Cases & Works:

Editor, California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter
“The Availability of Jury Trial in Land Use Litigation”, California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter, 1996
“Developers Get Bad News on Impact Fees”, The National Law Journal, January 18, 1993

Michael Tidus

Shareholder

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Irvine Office

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