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Joseph D. “Seph” Petta

Joseph D. “Seph” Petta

Title:
Attorney
He/Him/His
Joined Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger in:
2012
Primary Practice Areas:
CEQA & NEPA, City Attorney & General Counsel Services, Litigation & Appeals (incl. community group litigation practice, public agency defense), Land Use Planning & Zoning, Renewable Energy

Career Highlights

  • Negotiating the extension of protections, including limits on “piecemeal” development and building that could increase wildfire risk, to hundreds of thousands of acres of the Cleveland National Forest.
  • Prevailing in a California Environmental Quality Act lawsuit on behalf of community groups to halt a 3600-unit subdivision on undeveloped land — home to sensitive species and vulnerable to flash floods — outside of San Bernardino.
  • Advising on real estate and public trust matters to further a multi-agency project at the site of former Candlestick Park, which will include substantial affordable housing and redevelop the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area.

Community Service, Publications, and Recognitions

  • Member, League of California Cities’ Committee on Attorney Development and Succession.
  • Author (former), California Bar Environmental Law Section’s Environmental Law Update.
  • Sky Stanfield, Seph Petta and Sara Baldwin Auck, Interstate Renewable Energy Council, Inc., Charging Ahead: An Energy Storage Guide for Policymakers (Apr. 2017).
  • Sky Stanfield, Erica McConnell, and Seph Petta, “A New Frontier: The Interconnection of Energy Storage,” Greentech Media (Jan. 4, 2018).
  • Seph Petta, “Funding Public Transit in California After Proposition 26,” Public Law Journal (Vol. 36, No. 1, Winter 2013).

Bar Memberships

Member of the Bars of the State of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

Education

UC Berkeley School of Law, JD, 2012

Georgetown University, BA in English, 2002

About Me

Mushroom foraging, birding and tidepooling — and watching my kids discover their own loves about being outdoors — are some of my favorite things.

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