Brandon Kline

Brandon A. Kline is of counsel at Best Best & Krieger LLP (BBK) and a member of the Environmental & Natural Resources and Municipal Law practice groups. He also serves as counsel for municipalities, as well as general counsel for corporate and non-profit clients, leveraging his deep knowledge of environmental and land use matters, including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and related environmental laws. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Kline teaches land use planning and CEQA at the University of California, Davis School of Law.

Prior to joining BB&K, Mr. Kline served as deputy attorney general for the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, where he represented public entities in complex civil litigation, including environmental and land use matters. He also served as in-house counsel at San Francisco State University, managing legal matters related to CEQA and campus development projects. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Kline is a co-founder of the Rebound Institute, a non-profit supporting formerly incarcerated students. He earned his J.D. and LL.M. in environmental, natural resources, and energy law from Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, where he was inducted into the Cornelius Honor Society.

Mr. Kline has received numerous honors throughout his academic and professional career. He was named a Presidential Leadership Scholar, an exclusive program supported by the presidential centers of George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Mr. Kline was also an Energy Law Fellow and a member of the Cornelius Honor Society at Lewis & Clark Law School, where he earned multiple scholarships for his academic excellence, including the Honorable Roosevelt Robinson Scholarship and the Andrea Swanner-Redding Merit Scholarship. Additionally, he served as a California Executive Fellow in the Office of Governor Schwarzenegger and was a Summer Law Clerk at the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR), where he worked on environmental issues, including assisting with drafting CEQA Guidelines for infill and SB-743.