Innovative legal counsel for California public agencies
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Darold has emphasized a creative, mission-oriented approach to the representation of his clients throughout his career. Originally a business attorney, he understands the need to work toward objectives and evaluate entrepreneurial risk. Many attorneys find it easy to say no and to find reasons “why not.” More challenging is finding ways to say “yes” and finding the reasons to explain “how.”
Some examples of his strategic, creative approach to public agency legal challenges include:
- Overcoming a projected multi-year delay in a project due to unavailability of title insurance
- Devising a valuation, purchase and sale mechanism to obtain joint use property where the amount of property actually needed and used would not be known until years later
- Proposing and executing the first major design-build-operate-finance project in California
- Representing a public agency while in a Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy case
- Settling several major public construction project claims without litigation
- Proposing and executing several of the earliest contractor pre-qualification programs in California
- Devising an innovative public-private partnership approach to re-starting a major high school construction project that has been suspended for years
- Championing a city charter in order to streamline and cut costs on major construction projects
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