Linda C. Klein

Linda Klein is a California land use attorney, and a California Environmental Quality Act expert. She navigates complex regulatory challenges facing development projects, guiding clients' projects from acquisition to entitlement approvals and, if necessary, defending the entitlements in trial and appellate courts. Specializing in housing and mixed-use developments in urban and suburban Bay Area locations, Ms. Klein stays attuned to California's rapidly changing housing laws. She helps clients strategize how to best use the law to maximize a site's development potential while minimizing entitlement delay.

Ms. Klein attended the UCLA School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif. Prior to that, she earned a Master of Architecture from Yale School of Architecture, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Rice University.

Ms. Klein is the co-author of “Practice Under the California Environmental Quality Act.” She also regularly speaks about land use issues at organizations around the state.