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Daniel Alexander Friedlander
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Biography
I represent clients in civil litigation before state and federal courts. I also represents clients in transactional, administrative, and regulatory matters. Most of my clients are land owners, developers, and builders, but I also represent commecrcial landlords and tenants in unlawful detainer litigation and proceedings. In addition, becuase of my experience with complex real propertry and business issues, I represent clients in family law matters that often involve complicated property division issues.
As former general land use counsel to one of California’s largest land developers and as land use and environmental counsel to many of the nation’s top home builders, I assist clients in navigating the complex maze of land use and environmental laws and regulations under the most challenging circumstances.
My practice also includes advising clients on the applicability of state and federal prevailing wage laws to construction and improvement projects. I have substantial experience representing both lenders and borrowers in matters involving California’s elusive usury laws. I also represent both landlords and tenants of large commercial and industrial developments in unlawful detainer proceedings and in complex landlord-tenant litigation.
In addition to my legal experience, I have a degree in City and Regional Planning and I have practiced as a land use planner and environmental consultant. I am also a certified member of the American Planning Association’s (APA) American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).
I currently serve as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Oracle Mutual Fund and am the developer of several legal software applications for the iPhone and iPad.
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Payment Methods
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Licensed in California for 25 years
State: California
Acquired: 2000
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Location
The Law Office of Daniel Friedlander
31355 Oak Crest Drive, Suite 250, Westlake Village, CA, 91361
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Daniel Alexander Friedlander's Reviews
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Posted by Steven | August 14, 2025 | Hired Attorney
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Non-responsive attorney - avoid
This attorney is completely non-responsive after receiving retainer. I had to hire other attorney thus paying 2x the fees originally anticipated in order to keep making forward progress on my legal issue (delinquent tenant). He sells on you how his retainer is higher than other RE litigators howeve...
Posted by anonymous | October 17, 2015 | Hired Attorney
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Excellent Attorney
Very smart intelligent attorney that will go the extra mile for his client. He put in so much work day in and out and we won my case! Highly recommended!!
Posted by anonymous | December 9, 2012
Competent, communicative and kind. Everything I'd hoped for in a lawyer!
Dan Friedlander came to me through the recommendation of another attorney, and I am so thrilled that he did. From the moment Dan Friedlander stepped in to take over my case (I brought him in to take over from another attorney who was unresponsive and had missed a court appearance on my behalf) DAN F...
Posted by anonymous | November 18, 2010
He's a great lawyer and also a really smart guy.
Dan is a brilliant guy and really knows how to turn the other side's case upside down. I had a dispute over the sale of an industrial building and Dan basically resolved it in less time than the other two previous lawyers that had tried to do it for me. I wish I had hired him from the start. I have n...
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Experience
Honors
2009
40 Under 40, Pacific Business Times
Work Experience
2012 - Present
Owner, Law Office of Daniel Friedlander
2005 - 2012
Attorney, Jackson, De Marco & Peckenpaugh
2002 - 2005
Attorney, Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman, LLP
2001 - 2002
Assistant General Counsel, The Newhall Land & Farming Company
1999 - 2001
Attorney, Stevenson Worley
Associations
2004 - Present
American Planning AssociationCertified Planner
Education
N/A
Thomas Jefferson SOL
law
N/A
California Polytechnic St U
undergraduate
Speaking Engagements
2012
American Planning Association Annual Conference
Development Impact Fees
Publications
2011
20 Cal. Land Use L & Pol'y Rptr 159 (Mar. 2011).
Second District Court of Appeal Requires Payment of Prevailing Wages for Privately Funded Improvements
2005
Practicing Planner (American Planning Association / American Institute of Certified Planners 2005), Volume 3, No. 3
Kelo and Lingle: Two Landmark Decisions Courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court, Practicing Planner
2005
14 Cal. Land Use L & Pol'y Rptr 11 (Aug./Sep. 2005)
U.S. Supreme Court Holds that State Court Decision on Fifth Amendment Takings Claim Precludes Later Federal Court Review
2005
15 Cal. Land Use L & Pol'y Rptr 1 (Oct. 2005)
First District Finds a Memorandum of Understanding between a City and an Indian Tribe Was Not a Project Requiring CEQA Review
2005
15 Cal. Land Use L & Pol'y Rptr 2 (Nov. 2005)
Second District Finds Settlement Reached between City and Developer in Closed Session Violates the Brown Act
2005
15 Cal. Land Use L & Pol'y Rptr 3 (Dec. 2005)
Second District Decertifies Environmental Impact Report Based Upon Inadequate Water Supply Analysis
2004
California Constructor, Volume 34, No. 3, Mar. 2004
Development Projects Impacted by New Fish & Game Code Provisions
Languages
English