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Daniel A. Muller - Danville, CA
630 San Ramon Valley BoulevardSuite 100 Danville, CA 94526
Gagen, McCoy, McMahon, Koss, Markowitz & Fanucci
Danville Land Use and Real Estate Lawyer
Overview
Dan's clients include private property owners, business owners, home builders, developers, and public agencies...
Dan's clients include private property owners, business owners, home builders, developers, and public agencies...
Dan's clients include private property owners, business owners, home builders, developers, and public agencies. Dan's experience includes over 20 years resolving - and litigating if necessary - a wide array of property and business-related disputes involving land use, eminent domain/direct condemnation, inverse condemnation (unconstitutional regulatory and physical "takings"), development impact fees and exactions, redevelopment, purchases/sales, easements and boundaries, other municipal/constitutional law matters, and probate, will contests, and estate planning disputes.
In an era when few cases go to trial and litigators with trial experience are few and far between, Dan's experience is unusual - and valuable; allowing him to effectively counsel clients and win in court. Early in his career, Dan actively sought increasing litigation responsibility and was afforded the opportunity to handle dozens of cases, from early pleading and discovery stages, through jury or bench trial to verdict. Examples of Dan's litigation experience include:
• Successfully prosecuting, defending and resolving (for and against public agencies) numerous land use-related writ petitions, involving development entitlements, environmental analysis (CEQA), conditions of approval, development impact fees and exactions, redevelopment, and zoning issues.
• Successfully representing property owners, tenants, businesses, and public agencies in bench and jury trials of eminent domain, inverse condemnation, employment, business, and breach of contract disputes.
• Successfully prosecuting other municipal law disputes, such as quo warranto actions, in which public officials serving on two local agency boards were forced to resign under the "incompatible offices doctrine".
• Resolving contentious disputes between private property/business owners involving purchase/sale agreements, access and prescriptive easements, property boundaries, damages to real and personal property, breach of contract, tort, and construction claims.
Dan started his legal career at Gagen McCoy in 1994. Before returning in 2015, his other law firm positions/experience included: Senior Litigation Associate at the municipal firm Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson (San Leandro, CA); Litigation Partner/Shareholder & Founder/Co-Chair of the Land Use Department at Morgan Miller Blair (Walnut Creek, CA); Partner/Shareholder at Miller Starr Regalia (Walnut Creek, CA); Founder/Owner of the Law Offices of Daniel A. Muller (Walnut Creek, CA); and Partner/Land Use Chair at Buchman Provine Brothers Smith (Walnut Creek, CA).
About Daniel A. Muller
Practice Areas
- Land Use and Real Estate
- Litigation
Current Employment Position(s)
- Shareholder
Qualifications
Other Affiliations
- Contra Costa Council, Walnut Creek, California, Land Use Task Force, 2004 - 2011 (Member, Board of Directors & Co-Chair)
- Home Building Industry Associations
- California Building Industry Association (Member)
- North State Building Industry Association (Member)
- Building Industry Association of the Bay Area, 2010 - Present (Member)
- CBIA Impact Fee Task Force, 2009 - 2011 (Member)
- BIA of the Bay Area's Eastern Division Board of Directors, 2008 - 2010 (Member)
- BIA of the Bay Area's East Bay Policy Committee, 2010 - Present (Member)
- California State Bar, Real Property Law Section
- California State Bar, Real Property Law Section, Land Use Subsection, 2006 - Present (Chair)
- California State Bar, Real Property Law Section, Land Use Subsection, 2005 - 2006 (Vice-Chair)
- California State Bar, Real Property Law Section, Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Subsection, 2008 - Present (Member)
Education
- University of California at Davis School of Law, Davis, California, 1993
J.D.
Honors: Member, U.C. Davis’ team for Pace University Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, 1990-1992
Honors: Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Courses in CEQA, Environmental Law, 1991-1993 - University of California, Davis, California
B.A.
Honors: Public Service & B.S., Avian Sciences, 1990
Honors: Recipient, Political Science-Public Service Departmental Honors/Awards, 1990
Honors: Recipient, Henry Jastro Scholarship, 1987
Honors: Big Brother, West Sacramento & Sacramento, CA 1988-1992
Major: Political Science - Attended Dartmouth College, 1985
- University of Virginia, 1987
Past Positions
- Yolo Co. District Attorney's Office, Woodland, CA, Intern, 1989
- California Coastal Commission - Legislative Office, Sacramento, CA, Intern, 1989 - 1990
Classes and Seminars
- Presenter, Using Appraisers as Experts in Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Trials, Appraisal Inst., Berkeley, CA, 2015
- Presenter, Navigating the Land Use Maze – Parts I & II, Investment Marketing Forum, Orinda CA, 2013
Achievements
Honors
- Recipient, Outstanding Task Force Chair Award, 2004 - 2005
- Recipient, Award of Recognition, California State Bar
- Recipient, BIA of the Bay Area's Associate of the Year Award, 2011
- Recipient, BIA of the Bay Area's Associate Profile, 2007
Office Information
Address
630 San Ramon Valley BoulevardSuite 100 Danville, CA 94526
Phone
Fax
- (925) 838-5985
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Office Hours
Monday-Friday: 8:00am - 5:30pm, Saturday-Sunday: Closed
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