Historic Tejon Ranch Deal Preserves a Quarter of a Million Acres

September 18, 2008

In one of the largest conservation deals in California history, the firm, representing a coalition of conservation groups, negotiates an agreement in 2008 to preserve 240,000 acres of the historic Tejon Ranch, in Kern and Los Angeles Counties. SMW partners Richard Taylor and Bill White receive the California Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award for this achievement.