Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith provides thoughtful, experienced guidance to both public agencies and private sector clients on water rights, groundwater management issues, and environmental compliance, among other topics. A thoughtful and collaborative general counsel, she has special expertise in counseling clients on California Public Records Act (PRA) issues, state and local elections, Brown Act compliance, assessment and fee practices, FPPC compliance, petitions for writs of mandate, and other matters of special concern to public agencies. Ms. Smith is active both in the firm’s Water Law practice and in its well-reputed Food and Ag practice. Because of joint involvement in these complementary practice areas, she lends a special understanding of food production and agricultural legal issues to her water law practice.