Stephanie Smith

Stephanie Smith is a partner at Grid Legal, LLP. She represents public and private clients in a variety of CEQA and land use matters. Ms. Smith also assists client with commercial, retail, and residential transactions by drafting purchase and sale agreements, easement, option agreement, leases, and licenses. She is adept at helping with due diligence and frequently provides land use opinion letters to clients and lenders.

Prior to founding Grid Legal, Ms. Smith was an associate at DLA Piper in Los Angeles, and senior deputy counsel at the County of San Diego, where she represented County departments and advised on land use, regulatory matters, and CEQA. She graduated, cum laude, from Pepperdine School of Law and has a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Washington.

Ms. Smith was selected as a Rising Star in the area of land use by Super Lawyers in 2020 and 2021; recognized as a Leader in Law Finalist in 2021 by the San Diego Business Journal; and served as a member on the San Diego Mission Bay Park Committee. She was tapped by CREW San Diego to speak about a new California housing law and has been a frequent panelist and author on CEQA topics, including serving as a co-panelist at the 2022 CEQA Essentials Workshop in San Diego.