John C. Condas Joins the Orange County Office of Allen Matkins

SAN DIEGO – March 26, 2008 – Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, a leading California business and real estate law firm, announces the addition of John C. Condas as a partner in the firm's Orange County office.

Condas joins Allen Matkins' real estate, and land use, environmental & natural resources practice groups. He brings experience obtaining and defending all types of land use and environmental permits. He has particular experience working with Multiple Species Habitat Plans and advises clients on the developing climate change and green building requirements they face.

Condas has led legal due diligence and entitlement teams for industrial, commercial, retail, multi-family, mixed use and single-family residential projects in more than 140 jurisdictions. He has represented national, publicly traded and private home-building clients in acquisition of more than 18,000 residential lots. His clients include First Industrial Realty Trust, Watson Land Company, BRE Properties, Centex Homes, Standard Pacific Homes and Anheuser-Busch.

“John has an outstanding reputation for providing cutting-edge land use and environmental advice to his longstanding clients,” said Bob Hamilton, office operating partner of Allen Matkins' Orange County office. "His impressive background and experience will complement our current land use and environmental practice groups and further solidifies us as the ‘go to’ firm in these major areas.”

Condas taught real estate law at the University of Southern California MBA and Master of Real Estate Development programs for 15 years, and also taught real estate law at the University of Southern California Law School. He is on the Executive Committee of the USC Lusk Center and a member of the Board of Directors of the Hobbs Institute for Real Estate and Environmental Studies at Chapman University and is a member of ULI.

He joins Allen Matkins as the former chair of Nossaman's Land Use & Natural Resources Practice Group.

Condas received his J.D. from the University of Southern California in 1988, his M.A. in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1985 and his A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1983.

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Allen Matkins, founded in 1977, is a California-based law firm with approximately 220 attorneys in four major metropolitan areas of California: Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco and San Diego. The firm's core specialties include real estate, real estate and commercial finance, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, construction, land use, natural resources, environmental, corporate and securities, intellectual property, joint ventures, taxation, employment and labor law, and dispute resolution and litigation in all these matters. For more than 30 years, Allen Matkins has helped clients turn opportunity and challenge into success by providing practical advice, innovative solutions and valuable business opportunities. When clients' challenges require experienced trial counsel, Allen Matkins has a proven track record of successful litigation before juries, judges and arbitrators.

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